RE: Ordering Products

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After some off-forum correspondence, we ended up with this code:  [code]<?php
  $info_box_contents = array();
  $info_box_contents[] = array('align' => 'left',
                                 'text'  => 'BOX_HEADING_MAIN_PRODUCTS'
                                );
  new infoBoxHeading($info_box_contents, true, false, tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, '', 'NONSSL'));


  $random_products_query = tep_db_query("select products_id, products_image, products_tax_class_id, products_price from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " where products_status='1' order by rand() limit 9"); 

  for ($row=0, $info_box_contents = array(); $row < 3;$row++ ) { 
    for ($col=0; $col < 3; $col++) { 
      $random_product = tep_db_fetch_array($random_products_query); 
      $random_product['products_name'] = tep_get_products_name($random_product['products_id']); 
      $random_product['specials_new_products_price'] = tep_get_products_special_price($random_product['products_id']); 

      $info_box_contents[$row][$col] = array('align' => 'center', 
'text' => '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $random_product['products_id']) . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $random_product['products_image'], $random_product['products_name'], SMALL_IMAGE_WIDTH, SMALL_IMAGE_HEIGHT) . '</a><br><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $random_product['products_id'], 'NONSSL') . '">' . $random_product['products_name'] . '</a><br>' . $rprod_price); 
    } 
  }

  new contentBox($info_box_contents); 
?>[/code]