magento product list.phtml

Question

If I click on a product from my product overview on the left side, the shop does not load with the list.phtml. As soon as I swap view to grid or list, it swaps to the list.phtml file and everything is fine. But as I said, if I click on the products on the sidebar, it doesnt work (it's not even affected by list.phtml at all). I removed all the code inside it and it still showed (a bit different, that's why I want to change it) the products, but as soon as I swapped mode, everything disappeared -- as it should. Do you know where I can change that? Thank you.

Answer 1

It should use list.phtml file. In that file it is defined for both list mode and grid mode.

 <?php echo $this->getToolbarHtml() ?>
    <?php // List mode ?>
    <?php if($this->getMode()!='grid'): ?>
    <?php $_iterator = 0; ?>

And

<?php else: ?>
<?php // Grid Mode ?>
<?php $_collectionSize = $_productCollection->count() ?>

You can see something like above code in your list.phtml file,one is for list mode and another for grid mode. This is the default case unless you haven't changed the layout or template code.

If you want to know the file location than you can always enable template path hint. If you don't know how to do that you can follow this.

After knowing from which file it is rendering you can fix it.

Hope this will help.