Magento – How to hide the Catalog Advanced Search in magento version 1.9

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I am working on a Magento e-commerce site.
I need to disable the Catalog Advanced Search.
I checked with source code available in the stackexchange but its not working.

Best Answer

To remove the link to advanced search edit app/design/frontend/{package}/{theme}/layout/catalogsearch.xml.
If the file does not exist in your theme, copy it from base/default. Then remove this from the file:

<action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="catalogsearch">
    <label>Advanced Search</label>
    <url helper="catalogsearch/getAdvancedSearchUrl" />
    <title>Advanced Search</title>
</action>

But this will still leave your controller active, and anyone with a link can access it.
To restrict this, create an observer for the events controller_action_predispatch_catalogsearch_advanced_index and controller_action_predispatch_catalogsearch_advanced_result with this code:

public function restrictAccess($observer)
{
    $url = Mage::getUrl('no-route');
    Mage::app()->getResponse()->setRedirect($url);
    Mage::app()->getResponse()->sendResponse();
}

This will redirect the users to a 404 page when trying to access the advanced search form or result page.

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How to Show Advanced Search in custom.phtml in Magento

You get that strange url because of the method getSearchPostUrl in the advanced search form class. It looks like this:

public function getSearchPostUrl()
{
    return $this->getUrl('*/*/result');
}

This means that the url where the search form will be sent is {current_module}/{current_controller}/result.
You have to options here.

Clone catalogsearch/advanced/form.phtml into an other template file, use that for rendering the block and change inside it:

<form action="<?php echo $this->getSearchPostUrl() ?>" method="get" id="form-validate"> to <form action="<?php echo $this->getUrl('catalogsearch/advanced/result') ?>" method="get" id="form-validate">
Create a new block class that extends Mage_CatalogSearch_Block_Advanced_Form, use that for your homepage, and change the getSearchPostUrl to return $this->getUrl('catalogsearch/advanced/result').

I would go with option 1. Less work.

Magento – How to change the order of the form fields of the catalog advanced search form

The advanced form in the base template is in the file app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalogsearch/advanced/form.phtml and it loads the attributes to show as part for a foreach loop.

It uses the function call Mage_CatalogSearch_Block_Advanced_Form::getSearchableAttributes to load the attributes. Which intern loads a collection of attributes with the filter use in advanced search but sadly only uses attribute id as the order.

->setOrder('main_table.attribute_id', 'asc')

I see you have two options:

Extend Mage_CatalogSearch_Model_Advanced::getAttributes and set your own order in the collection. You could extend the attribute table to have a new column to order attribute by.
Extend Mage_CatalogSearch_Block_Advanced_Form::getSearchableAttributes and perform some form of processing on the attributes so that they appear in the order that you desire.

For me option 1 would be the cleanest and you could extend the system so that the admin user could specify the order they want, but it would also be the most work.

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