How to get a category listing from Magento?

Question

I want to create a page in Magento that shows a visual representation of the categories.. example

CATEGORY
 product 1
 product 2

ANOTHER CATEGORY
 product 3
         


        

Answer 1

I used this in /app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/product/feature.xml

_productCollection)) {
    $_origCollection = $this->_productCollection;
    $this->setCollection(null);
}
$this->setCategoryId(16);
$_productCollection=$this->getLoadedProductCollection() ?>
count()): ?>

    
__('Featured Products') ?>
    
        

            
                
                
htmlEscape($_product->getName())?>
                htmlEscape($_product->getShortDescription())) ?>