Magento – Getting the product collection from an advanced search

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I'm trying to get the product collection containing only the products that appear in a search, from inside app\design\frontend[theme]\catalog\layer\view.phtml

I've tried:

$search = Mage::getSingleton('catalogsearch/advanced');
$searchCollection = $search->getProductCollection()->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', 4);

and

$searchCollection = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->getProductCollection();
$searchCollection = Mage::getSingleton('catalogsearch/advanced')->prepareProductCollection( $searchCollection );
$searchCollection = $searchCollection->getProductCollection();

Both of these return every single product on the site, not just the ones in the search results.

Can anyone help?

Best Answer

This was the only working solution I could find: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20978893/whats-the-proper-way-to-call-catalogsearch-from-a-custom-block-in-magento

Though I did replace

$searchText = 'ipad';

with

$searchText = Mage::helper('catalogsearch')->getQueryText();

to make it dynamic.

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Magento 1.7 CatalogSearch – Display Category Products in Empty Search Result

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");

}

Magento – Quick Search Using Attributes via Parameters

Yes you can do this. You need to go Catalog > Attributes > Manage Attributes and locate your attribute. Make sure the configuration for Use in Search Results Layered Navigation is set to Yes:

However, note the warning underneath the option:

Can be used only with catalog input type Dropdown, Multiple Select and Price.

This means that if you are currently using a Yes/No attribute type you will need to create a new Dropdown type attribute.

Once you have your attribute set to be used in layered navigation, you can then use it as a filter in your URL, e.g. catalogsearch/result/?q=vanille&is_bio=123 (where 123 is your "Yes" attribute option ID).

There is a caveat to changing from Yes/No to the Dropdown type. If you are using this attribute elsewhere in your codebase, you will no longer be able to use the getIsBio() method to test for true/false:

if ($product->getIsBio()) {
    // won't work for Dropdown types
}

if ($product->getAttributeText('is_bio') === 'Yes') {
    // works for Dropdown types
}

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