How to Disable Advanced Search in Magento

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How can I disable advanced search feature in Magento?

Even you remove the links from frontend using layouts, if someone who knows Magento URL's accesses /catalogsearch/advanced will get the Advanced Search page.

I discovered some visitors are accessing catalogsearch/advanced/ directly. Why they are doing this? I found that using Advanced Search feature can provide to your competition, very easy and fast, information about how many products you have enabled from each brand/category/in total.

For example in Advanced Search just search for price between 0 and 1000000 and you will get for sure all products as number. Search for all manufacturers and you will get the number of all products in your store too. In my opinion this should be protected. In this case Advanced Search feature should be used but with precaution.

Back to main question how to Enable/Disable Advanced Search for the issue I mentioned above. First I was thinking to rewrite a rule for /catalogsearch/avanced link. The redirect page could have a pretty nice banner.

Thank you.

Best Answer

If you want to remove the links you can via the Layout XML:

<layout version="0.1.0">
    <default>
        <reference name="footer_links">
             <!-- Remove 'Advanced Search' -->
            <action method="removeLinkByUrl"><url helper="catalogsearch/getAdvancedSearchUrl" /></action>
    </reference>
 </default>
</layout>

To disable the controller itself (while not the cleanest approach is the quickest) create a copy of:

app/code/core/Mage/CatalogSearch/controllers/AdvancedController.php

Into the local code pool app/code/local/Mage/CatalogSearch/controllers/AdvancedController.php

And overwrite the local copy to:

class Mage_CatalogSearch_AdvancedController extends Mage_Core_Controller_Front_Action
{

    public function indexAction()
    {
         $this->_redirectUrl('/');
    }

    public function resultAction()
    {
         $this->_redirectUrl('/');
    }
}

Any requests will be redirected to home.

Related Solutions

Magento – Magento 1.7 Advanced Search Out of Order

The problem is with your grid columns. They are 4 and should be 3.
Open the file app/design/frontend/{interface}/{theme}/layout/catalogsearch.xml, look for the tag catalogsearch_result_index.
Inside it there should be this line:

<action method="addColumnCountLayoutDepend"><layout>two_columns_right</layout><count>4</count></action>

Change 4 into 3, clear the cache and try again.

Magento – custom advanced search

You will need to extend few advance search classes.

First I believe you already familiar with magento module developing.

Now, you need to add this block file

class NameSpace_YourModule_Block_Search_Form extends Mage_CatalogSearch_Block_Advanced_Form
{

    /**
     * Retrieve collection of product searchable attributes
     *
     * @return Varien_Data_Collection_Db
     */
    public function getSearchableAttributes()
    {
        $attributes = $this->getModel()->getAttributes();
        return $attributes;
    }

    /**
     * Retrieve advanced search model object
     *
     * @return Mage_CatalogSearch_Model_Advanced
     */
    public function getModel()
    {
        return Mage::getSingleton('yourblock/block'); //this is your block name what you have declared in config.xml
    }
}

Now in your module

class NameSpace_YourModule_Block_Search_Form extends Mage_CatalogSearch_Model_Advanced
{
    /**
     * Retrieve array of attributes used in advanced search
     *
     * Filter for specific attributes only
     * @return array
     */
    public function getAttributes()
    {
        /* @var $allAttributes Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Eav_Resource_Product_Attribute_Collection */
        $allAttributes = $this->getData('attributes');
        if (is_null($allAttributes)) {
            $product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
            $allAttributes = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_attribute_collection')
                ->addHasOptionsFilter()
                ->addDisplayInAdvancedSearchFilter()
                ->addStoreLabel(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId())
                ->setOrder('main_table.attribute_id', 'asc')
                ->load();

            $attributes = array();
            foreach ($allAttributes as $attribute) {
                if($attribute->getAttributeCode() == 'your_attribute_1' || $attribute->getAttributeCode() == 'your_attribute_2'){ //you can add as many as you want
                    $attributes[] = $attribute;
                }
            }
            foreach ($attributes as $attribute) {
                $attribute->setEntity($product->getResource());
            }
            $this->setData('attributes', $attributes);
        }
        return $attributes;
    }
}

Change your_attribute_1 and your_attribute_2 to your own attribute id.

Now, when you call $this->getSearchableAttributes() in your phtml file it will be showing only your own attributes.

Obviously you will need to create a controller to show your form and show the result too.

Your controller can have these codes only:

public function indexAction()
    {
        $this->loadLayout();
        $this->renderLayout();
        //Zend_Debug::dump($this->getLayout()->getUpdate()->getHandles());
    }

Remember you will also need layout file to render your index action.

Best Answer

Related Solutions

Magento – Magento 1.7 Advanced Search Out of Order

Magento – custom advanced search

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