Magento 1.7 CatalogSearch – Display Category Products in Empty Search Result

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In empty search result page, I need to display the product list of a particular category. So, I have added the code

<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('catalog/product_list')->setCategoryId(5)->setTemplate('catalog/product/list.phtml')->toHtml()?>

in catalogsearch/result.phtml. But this is not worked.

While check the flow, I have found that $this->getLayer() calls the catalogsearch in app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/List.php. Can I change the layer as Catalog, if the search is empty. If it is possible to change the layer, then how to do that?

Best Answer

Write down below code in your result.phtml

check weather search result contains result record more then 1.

If not write down following code...

$category_id=2; // your category id here..

$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load(trim($category_id));

    foreach ($category->getProductCollection() as $product) {

    $product= Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($product->getId());
    echo $product->getData("name");

}

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Magento – On Search Result: Group Products by Category

I've used the Display Products Grouped By Subcategories extension on category list pages before with success.

Another solution before we found this extension was to get the collection in the block and use a special attribute to order the collection. The code was as follows (only works under PHP 5.3)

class Class_Name
{
    [...]
    protected function _getProductCollection()
    {
        [...]

        $collection = $this->_productCollection;

        $collection->addAttributeToSelect('category_sort_value');


        // Do some fancy sorting
        $collectionReflection = new ReflectionObject($collection);
        $itemsPropertyReflection = $collectionReflection->getProperty('_items');
        $itemsPropertyReflection->setAccessible(true); // Make it accessible

        $collectionItems = $itemsPropertyReflection->getValue($collection);

        usort($collectionItems, array("Class_Name", "cmp"));

        $itemsPropertyReflection->setValue($collectionReflection, $collectionItems);

        $itemsPropertyReflection->setAccessible(false); // Return restriction back
        // End them fancyness

        $this->_productCollection = $collection;

        return $this->_productCollection;
    }

    public function cmp($a, $b) 
    {
        $a_sort = (int)$a->getData('category_sort_value');
        $b_sort = (int)$b->getData('category_sort_value');

        if ($a_sort == $b_sort) return 0;
        return ($a_sort < $b_sort) ? -1 : 1;
    }
}

You can use this class example to extend the Block class for the product list in search and sort the results like that. I hope this will help you in the right direction.

Magento – Magento search not returning results when keywords dont have space

It won't. The LIKE search requires an exact match, so unless you parse the query string and split it into separate words used to be used as the LIKE search input, it will result in no match.

LIKE search is dumb and does exactly what its input says.

You need a smarter search like LUCENE or SOLR.

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Magento – On Search Result: Group Products by Category

Magento – Magento search not returning results when keywords dont have space

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