[wayfarer]

It's a beautiful thing... Many thanks Holub.

I ended up placing it in /main/search_sort_by.tpl as I just wanted it to apply alongside the other sort by features, rather than having it on the featured products on the home page as well. I applied a little bit of styling and it's perfect.

For anyone else wanting to do the same, here's my /main/search_sort_by.tpl:

{* $Id: search_sort_by.tpl,v 1.5.2.2 2007/03/01 10:42:12 max Exp $ *}
{if $url eq '' && $navigation_script ne ''}{assign var="url" value=$navigation_script|replace:"&":"&"|cat:"&"}{elseif $url ne ''}{assign var="url" value=$url|amp}{/if}
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
	<td class="SearchSortTitle">{$lng.lbl_sort_by}:</td>
{foreach from=$sort_fields key=name item=field}
{if $navigation_page > 1}
{assign var="cur_url" value=$url|cat:"page="|cat:$navigation_page|cat:"&amp;sort="|cat:$name|cat:"&amp;sort_direction="}
{else}
{assign var="cur_url" value=$url|cat:"sort="|cat:$name|cat:"&amp;sort_direction="}
{/if}
	{if $name eq $selected}
	<td><a class="SearchSortLink" href="{$cur_url}{if $direction eq 1}0{else}1{/if}" title="{$lng.lbl_sort_by|escape}: {$field}"><img src="{$ImagesDir}/{if $direction}darrow.gif{else}uarrow.gif{/if}" class="SearchSortImg" alt="{$lng.lbl_sort_direction|escape}" /></a></td>
	{/if}
	<td class="SearchSortCell"><a class="SearchSortLink" href="{$cur_url}{if $name eq $selected}{if $direction eq 1}0{else}1{/if}{else}{$direction}{/if}" title="{$lng.lbl_sort_by|escape}: {$field}">{if $name eq $selected}<b>{/if}{$field}{if $name eq $selected}</b>{/if}</a></td>
{/foreach}
<td>:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td class="DropDownTitle"><form method="POST" action="/myshopdirectory/change_ppp.php" name="product_per_page_form">
<b>Show:</b>
<select class="ShowDropDown" name="ppp" onchange="javascript: document.product_per_page_form.submit();">
<option value="10" {if $products_per_page eq 10}selected{/if}>10</option>
<option value="20" {if $products_per_page eq 20}selected{/if}>20</option>
<option value="30" {if $products_per_page eq 30}selected{/if}>30</option>
<option value="50" {if $products_per_page eq 50}selected{/if}>50</option>
<option value="75" {if $products_per_page eq 75}selected{/if}>75</option>
<option value="100" {if $products_per_page eq 100}selected{/if}>100</option>
<option value="all" {if $products_per_page eq 32767}selected{/if}>ALL</option>
</select>
</form></td></tr>
</table>

Oh and for others wanting to implement Holub's solution here, you may have to resolve the path that points to change_ppp.php if your shop is in a subdirectory of your main domain name, as I did...

For Example: action="/yourshopdirectory/change_ppp.php"