Magento

Hi,

is there any way to change the ‘shop by price’ default value by our own ?
because in my category, i have 60 products :

1 product at 25 usd
59 products under 10 usd

So i got this in my shopping option :

Price

1. $ 0.00 - $ 10.00 (59)
2. $ 20.00 - $ 30.00 (1)

i don’t think it’s very useful for the end user. Something like :

1. $ 0.00 - $ 2.00
2. $ 3.00 - $ 5.00
3. $ 6.00 - $ 10.00

would be much more useful.

thanks

The price class is in app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Layer/Filter/Price.php
You can try to replace 10 with 1 or 2 in this line:

Merci Laurent, ça marche parfaitement !

We’ve done a bit of a workaround in /Catalog/Model/Layer/Filter/Price.php to increase the minimum number of options (price ranges available) to 5, while also allowing for price range widths that are multiples of 20 or 50 rather than just 10.

**BEGIN EDIT** I removed this post as it no longer applies here. **END EDIT**

Works great… thank you very much!

I hacked the File /Catalog/Model/Layer/Filter/Price.php
to deliver this functionality (see http://www.carrickwines.co.uk)

This will destroy the dynamic price navigation site wide and replace it with these static price levels. Also this is not tested with anything other than simple products in one currency.
The code is quite messy and convoluted - but it works.

Replace this (line 161)

with this - edit the values as you need. Remember to refresh both the overall cache (cache>>refresh) and layered caches (refresh layered navigation) in cache management to see your changes.

There are obviously more for my page but you will get the idea. The if statements are there to stop Magento throwing errors when you don’t have any items in that price range. Some statements are easier than others - for example 15-20 only needs to count one range (the fourth index of range 5) whereas 11-15 is more complicated - I had to add 4 separate values ( the 12th - 15th index of range 1) - this is the only way I could think of to get the count working correctly.

You then may wish to add some logic to stop the range displaying if the count is 0 - not shown

We’ve done a bit of a workaround in /Catalog/Model/Layer/Filter/Price.php to increase the minimum number of options (price ranges available) to 5, while also allowing for price range widths that are multiples of 20 or 50 rather than just 10.

thx @Greg Randall this one worked for me! (on 1.3.1)

Shame I have to change core code - but the current automated price ranges were making absolutely no sense (100+ products in $0-100 range and 3 products in $100-200 range).

hey bruce,

you could put this file out to the local directory that way it doesnt effect core

for example create the following folder structure under the app/code/local/Mage/Catalog/Model/Layer/Filter/Price.php

brendan

yep that worked! thx @brendan.

Rather than $0 - $x, is there some way to have “less than $x”? I don’t like seeing the “$0” in there.

Calum Brodie - 26 March 2009 05:38 AM

I hacked the File /Catalog/Model/Layer/Filter/Price.php
to deliver this functionality (see http://www.carrickwines.co.uk)

This will destroy the dynamic price navigation site wide and replace it with these static price levels. Also this is not tested with anything other than simple products in one currency.
The code is quite messy and convoluted - but it works.

Replace this (line 161)

foreach ($dbRanges as $index=>$count) {
                $data[] = array(
                    'label' => $this->_renderItemLabel($range, $index),
                    'value' => $index . ',' . $range,
                    'count' => $count,
                );
            }

with this - edit the values as you need. Remember to refresh both the overall cache (cache>>refresh) and layered caches (refresh layered navigation) in cache management to see your changes.

///////// 0-5 ///////////////////////
                $count_first  = $this->getRangeItemCounts(5);
                $count_first_value = (array_key_exists(1, $count_first)) ? $count_first[1]:0;    
                $data[] = array(
                    'label' => $this->_renderItemLabel(5, 1),
                    'value' => 1 . ',' . 5,
                    'count' => $count_first_value,
                );
    ///////// 5-7 ///////////////////////            
                $count_second  = $this->getRangeItemCounts(1);
                $count_second_value = 0;
                $count_second_value += 
                (array_key_exists(6, $count_second)) ? $count_second[6]:0;
                $count_second_value +=
                (array_key_exists(7, $count_second)) ? $count_second[7]:0;
                $data[] = array(
                    'label' => $this->_renderItemLabel(2, 3.5),
                    'value' => 3.5 . ',' . 2,
                    'count' => $count_second_value,
                );

    ///////// 7-11 ///////////////////////            
                $count_third   = $this->getRangeItemCounts(1);
                $count_third_value = 0;
                $count_third_value += 
                (array_key_exists(8, $count_third)) ? $count_third[8]:0;
                $count_third_value += 
                (array_key_exists(9, $count_third)) ? $count_third[9]:0;
                $count_third_value += 
                (array_key_exists(10, $count_third)) ? $count_third[10]:0;
                $count_third_value += 
                (array_key_exists(11, $count_third)) ? $count_third[11]:0;                
                $data[] = array(
                    'label' => $this->_renderItemLabel(4, 2.75),
                    'value' => 2.75 . ',' . 4,
                    'count' => $count_third_value,
                );

    ///////// 11-15 ///////////////////////
                $count_fourth   = $this->getRangeItemCounts(1);
                $count_fourth_value = 0;
                $count_fourth_value += 
                (array_key_exists(12, $count_fourth)) ? $count_fourth[12]:0;
                $count_fourth_value += 
                (array_key_exists(13, $count_fourth)) ? $count_fourth[13]:0;
                $count_fourth_value += 
                (array_key_exists(14, $count_fourth)) ? $count_fourth[14]:0;
                $count_fourth_value += 
                (array_key_exists(15, $count_fourth)) ? $count_fourth[15]:0;
                $data[] = array(
                    'label' => $this->_renderItemLabel(4, 3.75),
                    'value' => 3.75 . ',' . 4,
                    'count' => $count_fourth_value,
                );
    
    ///////// 15-20 ///////////////////////            
                $count_fifth   = $this->getRangeItemCounts(5);
                $count_fifth_value = 0;
                $count_fifth_value += (array_key_exists(4, $count_fifth)) ? $count_fifth[4]:0;
                $data[] = array(
                    'label' => $this->_renderItemLabel(5, 4),
                    'value' => 4 . ',' . 5,
                    'count' => $count_fifth_value,
                    );

There are obviously more for my page but you will get the idea. The if statements are there to stop Magento throwing errors when you don’t have any items in that price range. Some statements are easier than others - for example 15-20 only needs to count one range (the fourth index of range 5) whereas 11-15 is more complicated - I had to add 4 separate values ( the 12th - 15th index of range 1) - this is the only way I could think of to get the count working correctly.

You then may wish to add some logic to stop the range displaying if the count is 0 - not shown

Could anyone give me a quick run down of the coding and how to change the price range variables?  Seems like there is a wierd workaround in this for totaling the products correctly that makes it hard to just change the variables.  I dont have enough experience editing code like this but I learn quick.  Anyone?

there are two things you have to change.

First the label and link are changed by editing the following

this means the first index of the range 5 (0-5). If you wanted to get items between 12-8 for example you would change to

‘label’ => $this->_renderItemLabel(6, 3),
‘value’ => 3. ‘,’ . 6,

The second (more complicated part) is to count the number of products in that range.

This is easy if you are only using whole numbers for your multiplier (the 1 or 3 in the above examples) In which case you would simply enter the variables into magento’s built in count function and it would give you the correct result.... ie

translation:
1st line says --->> use the range of 5
2nd line says--> use only the first index in that range

if you wanted 6-18 you would change to

If you want to use a multiple that is NOT a whole number then you need to concatenate multiple ranges… I will explain the following code

translation:
Use the range of one

then take to 6th and seventh indexes of that range and add them together (6th index is items in the range 5-6 and 7th index is items in the range 6-7).

You need to do it this way becasue:

$this->getRangeItemCounts()

only accepts whole numbers. If you try and use ca value with a decimal point (3.5) it will round it to the nearest whole number giving you the wrong output.

Good Luck, post your code if you’re still having trouble

I’ve benn looking for this all over.  Thank you so much!!!

Hi all,

On my side, I’m trying to retrieve the max price but from the template/catalog/layer/filter.phtml file in order to use the value in javascript.
I’ve tried loads of Mage::getModel, Mage::getSingleton… but I am not able to point to the public function getMaxPriceInt() in Price.php

Can you help me figure out what I’m missing here please ?
Thanks a lot.

I’m having trouble Calum Brodie!
I would like to use your code but I don’t know how to change the vars to use it with the following range table:

$ 0.00 - $ 50.00
$ 51 - $ 100.00
$ 101 - $ 200.00
$ 201 - $ 500.00
$ 501 - $ 1000.00
$ 1001 - $ 3000.00

Thanks!!