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Ok, so I have successfully integrated the display of the currently selected items category for display on the bottom of the product view, by simply adding the following to my custom layout xml file:

<catalog_product_view>
        <!-- Mage_Catalog -->
        <reference name="root">
            <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/1column.phtml</template></action>
        </reference>
        <reference name="content">
        
            <block type="catalog/product_list" name="product_list"></block>
        
        </reference>
    </catalog_product_view>

This works great, perfectly in fact, however when I try to pull up a product view from my advanced search (I haven’t tried simple search, don’t have it activated) it of course produces an error, because there is no catalog/product list.

Is there a way to insert some logic along the way (in other words, where would I do this) to test to see if this is a search result or a catalog display, and then display the correct thing?

Thanks,

Pat

 
 
Posted: January 9 2008
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Am I not asking correctly?  I am really just trying to figure out where to start looking so that I can manage to make this work in my own module.  Any clues would be totally awesome smile

Thanks,

Pat

 
 
Posted: January 12 2008
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overload Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List, like this:

protected function _getProductCollection()
    {
        if (is_null($this->_productCollection)) {
            $collection = Mage::getSingleton('catalog/layer');
            if ($this->getShowRootCategory()) {
                $this->setCategoryId(Mage::getStoreConfig('catalog/category/root_id'));
            }
// START ADD
// if this is a product view page
            if (Mage::registry('product')) {
// get collection of categories this product is associated with
                $categories = Mage::registry('product')->getCategoryCollection()
// request only first category
                    ->setPage(1, 1)
// and load the collection data
                    ->load();
// if the product is associated with any category
                if ($categories->count()) {
// show products from this category
                    $this->setCategoryId(current($categories->getIterator()));
                }
            }
// END ADD
            if ($this->getCategoryId()) {
                $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($this->getCategoryId());
                $collection->setCurrentCategory($category);
            }
            $this->_productCollection = $collection->getProductCollection();
        }
        return $this->_productCollection;
    }

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Posted: January 15 2008
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Thanks Moshe, that is an excellent way to display products related to a searched product, however what I am looking to do is to actually display the search results at the bottom of the product page, from a search performed.  So if they searched on Gold, and they get 4 results, I want those exact items displayed (so the search results block) on the bottom of the page of each one of those when clicked from there.

You mentioned that I could show the catalogsearch/result block, which sounds exactly correct.

You also said that I should overload the Mage_Catalog_ProductController to do the following:

you should put in the controller Mage::helper(’catalogSearch’)->setQueryText(’...’)
and transfer this query in the URL with each link of the product on the search

I will give this a try and get back to you!

Pat

 
 
Posted: January 15 2008
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