Search Results Page – Wrong Number of Products Per Page in Magento

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In search results page, I'm not getting the correct number of products on each page. I have set the following in local.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<layout version="0.1.0">
    <catalogsearch_result_index>
        <reference name="product_list_toolbar">
            <action method="addPagerLimit"><mode>grid</mode><limit>30</limit></action>
            <action method="addPagerLimit"><mode>list</mode><limit>30</limit></action>
        </reference>
    </catalogsearch_result_index>
</layout>

The limiter selectbox in pagination toolbar, indeed displays "Show 30" as selected value. But in product list, there are only 9 products displayed in each results page.

I can't find a solution to this, any suggestions?

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Well done for doing local.xml, however, for the list part of category and search result pages layout updates in local.xml cannot be relied upon. I cannot fully remember the reason for this, but I think this is the problem here!!!

Try moving your layout updates to the .xml files in your theme (as copied from base, the proper Magento way).

If this does not work... Maybe the templates rather than the layout is where the problem is.

The search results use the same category list templates as the main category pages. The side nav, header and other page elements may be different but that main list template is the same.

Go into admin->system->config->catalog->catalog and change the products per page there, as predicted this should affect the products in your template.

Next, how to fix. If it wasn't the local.xml problem mentioned above, I suspect that the $collection is being created properly, paginating on 30, however, the template is hard wired to different settings, to show 9. If this changes based on the catalog admin settings you are nearer to knowing what is going on.

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The key to the fact that the layer block needs to be there can be found in Mage_CatalogSearch_Block_Layer in the construct.

/**
 * Internal constructor
 */
protected function _construct()
{
    parent::_construct();
    Mage::register('current_layer', $this->getLayer(), true);
}

The second line is the key: Mage::register('current_layer', $this->getLayer(), true); without this line none of the search results will display correctly. What this does is tell the system what the current state of the search is.

This will set the current layer as type Mage_CatalogSearch_Model_Layer but if this line is not run then later on the layer gets set as type Mage_Catalog_Model_Layer. The two models have two similar but different prepareCollection functions.

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    $collection
        ->addAttributeToSelect(Mage::getSingleton('catalog/config')->getProductAttributes())
        ->addSearchFilter(Mage::helper('catalogsearch')->getQuery()->getQueryText())
        ->setStore(Mage::app()->getStore())
        ->addMinimalPrice()
        ->addFinalPrice()
        ->addTaxPercents()
        ->addStoreFilter()
        ->addUrlRewrite();

    Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_status')->addVisibleFilterToCollection($collection);
    Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_visibility')->addVisibleInSearchFilterToCollection($collection);

    return $this;
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Mage_Catalog_Model_Layer

Has no addition of addSearchFilter and does not set or filter on the store.

public function prepareProductCollection($collection)
{
    $collection
        ->addAttributeToSelect(Mage::getSingleton('catalog/config')->getProductAttributes())
        ->addMinimalPrice()
        ->addFinalPrice()
        ->addTaxPercents()
        ->addUrlRewrite($this->getCurrentCategory()->getId());

    Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_status')->addVisibleFilterToCollection($collection);
    Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_visibility')->addVisibleInCatalogFilterToCollection($collection);

    return $this;
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$collection->count() loads the collection and returns the number of products matching the select associated to the collection.
I think you are looking for $collection->getSize(). This will get you the total number of products matching the select, but ignores the limit.
Also getSize does not load the collection, so it's faster.

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