Magento – overriding Magento toolbar.phtml file

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I am editing the file \app\design\frontend\base\default\template\catalog\product\list\toolbar.phtml through my own module. I want to specify the available categories on the current list.

Example: I search for "shirt" and the products that contains "shirt" is in 2 categories: summer and winter.

The idea is that the user can filter by (not order by) one of the two categories available.
I searched this function:

<?php foreach ($this->getAvailableLimit() as  $_key=>$_limit): ?>

I found out that it only works with specific attributes of product and only for "order by", but what about the categories? and if I want to "filter by"?

Is that possible? Any ideas?

Thanks!

I response to myself:

I do it!

On the one hand I copied the file toolbar.php to override it (and add my personalized functions) and secondly the List.php file to edit the collection list and add my category_id filter. Finally I edited my toolbar.phtml file to add the dropdown list with available categories and get the categoryId param to keep selected the category in the dropdown.

Best Answer

You can make categories filterable in the layered navigation. In the admin, if you set the category setting "Is Anchor?", that category will become a filterable attribute. This way you don't have customize it in the toolbar filters.

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You should only need to insert the sort order, and the collection should already have the special price - add this to your <select>:

<option value="<?php echo $this->getOrderUrl('special_price', 'asc') ?>"<?php if($this->isOrderCurrent('special_price') && $this->getCurrentDirection() == 'desc'): ?> selected="selected"<?php endif; ?>>Special Price</option>

The only flaw in this method is that it won't filter items from the collection that are not currently on sale, though it will sort them.

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As far as I know, you don't need to nest the <referenceBlock name="top.search">...</reference> inside the <referenceContainer name="header-wrapper">...</reference>; you can move it directly under the <body> tag.

What's more, there are other references to top.search block in Magento layout update XML files, be sure your module depends on the modules that declare those updates, that are:

Magento_CatalogSearch
Magento_Checkout
Magento_Multishipping

This way your rules will be merged after those of above mentioned modules.

Your module.xml should like something like the following:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Module/etc/module.xsd">
    <!-- adjust setup_version according to your numbering -->
    <module name="Learning_CustomSearch" setup_version="1.0.0">
        <sequence>
            <module name="Magento_CatalogSearch"/>
            <module name="Magento_Checkout"/>
            <module name="Magento_Multishipping"/>
        </sequence>
    </module>
</config>

Hope it helps.

EDIT

Provided you have the form.mini.phtml under the view/frontend/templates folder of your module, the layout should look something like:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">    
    <body>    
        <referenceBlock name="top.search">
            <action method="setTemplate">
                <argument name="template" xsi:type="string">Learning_CustomSearch::form.mini.phtml</argument>
            </action>
        </referenceBlock>
    </body>
</page>

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