Magento – Apply Layered Navigation to CMS Page with New Products

categorycollection;filter

Can't seem to get it to show up.

This is how it's defined in layout files:

<block type="catalog/layer_view" name="catalog.leftnav" before="-" template="catalog/layer/view.phtml"/>

it's located here:

/app/design/frontend/name-space/default/template/catalog/layer/view.phtml

I'm attempting to add it to the CMS page via the Layout Update XML (Layout is 2 columns with left bar) section in the backend using:

<reference name="content">
    <block type="catalog/layer_view" name="catalog.leftnav" before="-" template="catalog/layer/view.phtml"></block>
</reference>

I've also tried:

<reference name="content">
    <block type="enterprise_search/catalog_layer_view" name="catalog.content" before="-" template="catalog/layer/view.phtml">
</reference>

The former shows nothing at all and the latter shows a single category dropdown that redirects to that specific category page.

Also, the product collection on the CMS page is being loaded by a widget. Would this have some effect? In the CMS page Content section is found:

{{widget type="catalog/product_widget_new" display_type="new_products" show_pager="1" products_count="60" template="catalog/product/widget/new/content/new_grid.phtml"}}

The above widget calls a function called _getProductCollection() in order to generate the product Collection of new products:

protected function _getProductCollection()
{
    $todayStartOfDayDate = Mage::app()->getLocale()->date()
        ->setTime('00:00:00')
        ->toString(Varien_Date::DATETIME_INTERNAL_FORMAT);
    $todayEndOfDayDate = Mage::app()->getLocale()->date()
        ->setTime('23:59:59')
        ->toString(Varien_Date::DATETIME_INTERNAL_FORMAT);
    /** @var $collection Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Product_Collection */
    $collection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()->addAttributeToSelect('*')->setVisibility(Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_visibility')->getVisibleInCatalogIds());
    $this->_addProductAttributesAndPrices($collection)
        ->addStoreFilter()
        ->addAttributeToFilter('news_from_date', array('or' => array(
            0 => array('date' => true, 'to' => $todayEndOfDayDate),
            1 => array('is' => new Zend_Db_Expr('null')))
        ), 'left')
        ->addAttributeToFilter('news_to_date', array('or' => array(
            0 => array('date' => true, 'from' => $todayStartOfDayDate),
            1 => array('is' => new Zend_Db_Expr('null')))
        ), 'left')
        ->addAttributeToFilter(
            array(
                array('attribute' => 'news_from_date', 'is' => new Zend_Db_Expr('not null')),
                array('attribute' => 'news_to_date', 'is' => new Zend_Db_Expr('not null'))
            )
        )
        ->setPageSize($this->getProductsCount())
        ->setCurPage(1);
    return $collection;
}

Best Answer

Layered navigation needs an active category to be able to work. If I remember correctly this should do it.

<block type="catalog/layer_view" name="catalog.leftnav" before="-" template="catalog/layer/view.phtml">
   <action method="setCategoryId"><category_id>[category ID]</category_id></action>
</block>

As a side note, there is a free module that gives you pages with products and a layered navigation and some content fields like CMS pages.

https://github.com/magento-hackathon/layered-landing

-- EDIT

To have a category with new products create a custom module that runs a cron every night that assigns the products to the new category. Below will add all products added after last week.

[Namespace]_[Module]_Model_Cron 
{
    public function assignToNew()
    {
        $collection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_collection')
        $collection->addAttributeToFilter('updated_at', array('gteq' => date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-1 week')));
        $collection->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1);
        [...]
        // whatever you need to filter
        [...]

        $products = array_fill_keys($collection->getAllIds(), '1');

        $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load([id of the cat]);
        $category->setPostedProducts($products);

        $category->save();
    }
}

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Magento – Layered Navigation Category link

Yes, very possible, and I do exactly the same for a client site.

First I created a new attribute for categories, to allow me to set that a category needs to use the normal link. This is done via a module.

The module structure:

app/code/local/ProxiBlue/AttributeUseNormalFilterLink/
app/code/local/ProxiBlue/AttributeUseNormalFilterLink/Model/Mysql4/
app/code/local/ProxiBlue/AttributeUseNormalFilterLink/etc
app/code/local/ProxiBlue/AttributeUseNormalFilterLink/sql/proxiblue_filterlink_setup

In Model/Mysql4 I have file Setup.php Contents:

class ProxiBlue_AttributeUseNormalFilterLink_Model_Mysql4_Setup extends Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Setup {

    private $_category_attributes = array(
        'use_normal_filter_link' => array(
            'label' => 'Use normal filter link in left navigation',
            'type' => 'int',
            'input' => 'select',
            'source' => 'eav/entity_attribute_source_boolean',
            'default' => '0',
            'global' => Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Eav_Attribute::SCOPE_STORE,
            'visible' => true,
            'required' => false,
            'user_defined' => false,
            'visible_on_front' => true,
            'is_visible_on_front' =>true,
            'used_in_product_listing' => true,
        )
    );

    public function getDefaultEntities() {
        $entities = array();

        $default_attribute_options = array(
            'group' => 'General Information',
            'required' => false,
        );

        /* Build Catalog Attributes */
        $entities['catalog_category'] = array(
            'entity_model' => 'catalog/category',
            'attribute_model' => 'catalog/resource_eav_attribute',
            'table' => 'catalog/category',
            'additional_attribute_table' => 'catalog/eav_attribute',
            'entity_attribute_collection' => 'catalog/category_attribute_collection',
            'attributes' => array(),
        );
        foreach ($this->_category_attributes as $name => $options) {
            /* Override values provided by the defaults */
            $attribute_options = $default_attribute_options;
            foreach ($options as $k => $v) {
                $attribute_options[$k] = $v;
            }
            $entities['catalog_category']['attributes'][$name] = $attribute_options;
        }

        return $entities;
    }

}

in etc folder I have the config.xml contents:

<modules>
    <ProxiBlue_AttributeUseNormalFilterLink>
        <version>0.0.1</version>
    </ProxiBlue_AttributeUseNormalFilterLink>
</modules>

<global>
    <models>
        <proxiblue_attributeusenormalfilterlink>
            <class>ProxiBlue_AttributeUseNormalFilterLink_Model</class>
        </proxiblue_attributeusenormalfilterlink>
    </models>
    <resources>
        <proxiblue_filterlink_setup>
            <setup>
                <module>ProxiBlue_AttributeUseNormalFilterLink</module>
                <class>ProxiBlue_AttributeUseNormalFilterLink_Model_Mysql4_Setup</class>
            </setup>
        </proxiblue_filterlink_setup>
    </resources>
</global>

and in the sql fiolder I have the install script : mysql4-install-0.0.1.php contents:

$installer = $this;
$installer->startSetup();
$installer->installEntities();
$installer->endSetup();

Now you can adjust the filter template to use this attribute, and any category can be set to display the actual category link, and not work as a filter.

Copy the template catalog/layer/filter.phtml to your custtom theme folder, then adjust as follows: (note this has some other customization, so pull the bits you need)

<?php $category = false; ?>
<?php if ($this instanceof Mage_Catalog_Block_Layer_Filter_Category): ?>
<?php $category = Mage::registry('current_category'); ?>
    <?php if ($category): ?>
    <h2>
    <a class='level-top' href="<?php $category->getUrl(); ?>"><?php echo $category->getName(); ?></a>
    </h2>
    <?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<ol>
    <?php foreach ($this->getItems() as $_item): ?>
    <li>
        <?php if ($_item->getCount() > 0): ?>
        <?php
            $link = $_item->getUrl();
            if(is_object($category) && !$category->getUseNormalFilterLink()){
                $filter = $_item->getFilter();
                if($filter instanceof Mage_Catalog_Model_Layer_Filter_Category) {
                    $linkCategory = mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($_item->getValue());
                    if($linkCategory->getId()){
                        $link = $linkCategory->getUrl();
                    }
                }
            }
        ?>
        <a href="<?php echo $this->urlEscape($link) ?>"><?php echo $_item->getLabel() ?></a>
        <?php else: echo $_item->getLabel() ?>
        <?php endif; ?>
        <?php //echo $_item->getCount() ?>
    </li>
    <?php endforeach ?>
</ol>

Magento CMS – Fixing Layered Navigation Not Populated by Collection Attributes

Layered navigation needs an active category to work. Add the following block to you layout-xml on your cms-pages.

<cms_page>
    <block type="catalog/layer_view" name="catalog.leftnav" before="-" template="catalog/layer/view.phtml">
        <action method="setCategoryId"><category_id>2</category_id></action>
    </block>
</cms_page>

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