magento limiting number of returned items in product collection call

Question

Im trying to limit the number of returned results manually in a copy of the list.phtml template, but its turning out to be alot harder than I anticipated.

Ive tried man

Answer 1

As was mentioned, the productCollection already has page size set. There is another way to get the collection though; via the catalog/product Model:

$productCollection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')
    ->getCollection()
    ->addAttributeToSelect(
        array('name', 'image', 'price')
    )
    ->addIdFilter( 
        array('1', '2')
    )
    ->setPageSize( 2 )
    ->load();
;

return $productCollection->getSelect()->__toString();

The resulting query (and ultimately object) contains the LIMIT syntax:

SELECT `e`.* ... WHERE (`e`.`entity_id` IN('1', '2')) LIMIT 2;

Is that what you were asking?