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nikefido
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I am attempting to change the URL in the layered navigation so it doesn’t use ID numbers (but instead use the text value of the attribute being filtered)

So I would like to change http://localhost/magento115/cat1/subcat11?color=6 to http://localhost/magento115/cat1/subcat11?color=white

On one end of this spectrum is this code in app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Layer/Filter/Attribute.php function apply()

protected  function _getOptionText($optionId)
    {
        return $this->getAttributeModel()->getFrontend()->getOption($optionId);
    }


 public function apply(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request, $filterBlock)
    {
        $filter = $request->getParam($this->_requestVar);
        //$fitler = the number (id, for instance '6') of the attribute
        $text = $this->_getOptionText($filter);
       //$text = outputs the text value (color , for instance 'white')
        if ($filter && $text) {
            /*$entityIds = Mage::getSingleton('catalogindex/attribute')->getFilteredEntities($this->getAttributeModel(), $filter, $this->_getFilterEntityIds());
            if ($entityIds) {
                $this->getLayer()->getProductCollection()
                    ->addFieldToFilter('entity_id', array('in' => $entityIds));

                $this->getLayer()->getState()->addFilter(
                    $this->_createItem($text, $filter)
                );
                $this->_items = array();
            }*/
            Mage::getSingleton('catalogindex/attribute')->applyFilterToCollection(
                $this->getLayer()->getProductCollection(),
                $this->getAttributeModel(),
                $filter
            );
            $this->getLayer()->getState()->addFilter($this->_createItem($text, $filter));
            $this->_items = array();
        }
        return $this;
    }

In this example, I need a way to get the id from the text (which is the opposite of how the above code works).

The function _getOptionText (also above) does the opposite of this as well.

Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

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Posted: September 17 2008
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I was hoping someone has some idea of how I would be able to take an attribute name/value (’color’ and ‘white’ for instance) and get an ID from it? (Some method I don’t know about or haven’t thought about?)

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Posted: September 18 2008
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Hey nikefido

I am having the exact same question.
Have you found a way to do it yet?

Best regards.

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Posted: October 15 2008
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