Comments on: Advanced search in Magento and how to use it in your own way

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:04:39 +0000

I get an error when clicking the search button on my custom form that file cannot be found: Mage/CatalogSearch/Model/Custom.php

Any ideas? Thanks!

Jen

By: Abdul Ghafoor

Abdul Ghafoor — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:01:46 +0000

Hi,
I want to add an attribute in advance search but having different input type. Suppose I’ve an attribute named as length. I’ve added this attribute by choosing input type dropdown in admin panel. But in advance search I want this attribute work as min/max range as text fields just like price. I know I can change the input type from dropdown to text field and it works but I can’t change it.

Can some one help me out here. Thanks in advance.

By: Sohit

Sohit — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:48:37 +0000

Thanks a lot, this stuff is really a life savior.

By: grille4u

grille4u — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:13:41 +0000

Some people reported that the custom search return everything. I guess in the article, the paragraph is not right:

Inside this CustomController.php there is a function called resultAction(). You need to replace the ( … Mage::getSingleton(’catalogsearch/advanced’) … ) string ‘catalogsearch/advanced’ with ‘catalogsearch/custom’. This is the one telling the browser what page to open.

Should not change that line at all. That’s how I get mine works. ( initially following that direction, but get everything back).

By: Branko Ajzele

Branko Ajzele — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:16:08 +0000

p.s. This is now relatively “old” article. I myself would use entirely new approach now, one that uses module.

By: Branko Ajzele

Branko Ajzele — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:15:01 +0000

@Christopher Shennan

Well, one way to do it is to create a module, add new layout xml file to it, map to some url… Not sure what the final result needs to be. Another way is to simply override the default /core CatalogSearch.

By: Christopher Shennan

Christopher Shennan — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:50:46 +0000

I’ve implemented this and it works fine however I would like to move the custom search from app\code\core\Mage\CatalogSearch to app\code\local\MyCompany\CatalogSearch.

Any ideas how to do this?

Many Thanks.

Chris.

By: Branko Ajzele

Branko Ajzele — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:09:49 +0000

@DoruDM

Not sure what exactly the issue is? Have you turned off all caching, turned on path hints? This should point you to the right file when you refresh the frontend. Then with a little help of FireBug you should be able to fully see and customize the styling stuff.

By: DoruDM

DoruDM — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:19:43 +0000

Hello,

Nice tutorial.
Could you help me with something?
I’m a magento newbiw, and I’m build a custom skin, I have almost all the pages done, my problem is that I can’t manage to customize the advanced search page, it”s not following the same design, I can’t manage to find out why.

THanks

By: Diego

Diego — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:23:14 +0000

Hi! Nice tutorial, but I got one question: I got 36 simple products (all with several attributes), whose visibility is “Search”-only. All simple products are grouped together to one product. If I use advanced search based on an attribute of the simple products I get results for the simple products, but not the grouped product, where the simple products belong to. And so the Simple Products whose visibility is on “Search” are visible and clickable, which should not be possible. Instead the grouped product should come up as the search result. Is this do-able???

By: Dave Alberts

Dave Alberts — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:35:10 +0000

Hello…

I’ve gotten everything to work, sort of…. when I enter a search it returns ALL the products within the catalog, instead of any search.

Any suggestions?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:13:28 +0000

Does anyone know of any type of Magento Admin Panel Training course?

I have had Magento for a few weeks now and I know there are tons of functions and tools available to me that I just do not know how use (or at least not how to use correctly) Anyone have any info regarding a training course?

Peace
Matthew

By: Mathew

Mathew — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:01:01 +0000

Oh no I didn’t get it right! Any help with this? I followed the above with the word brands for my custom search. I now get an error when opening a search:

Warning: include(Mage/CatalogSearch/Model/Brands.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/functions.php on line 73

I tried to bodge it and scarper by adding in a Brands.php file based on the Advanced.php but that just returned the full catalog!

I double checked everything, any ideas why it is trying to call a Brands.php file instead of Advanced.php?

By: Mathew

Mathew — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:31:19 +0000

Cheers dude!

I managed to get this working on my second attempt, seemed I made a mishtake on the layout.xml file! All is working nicely, many thanks for the tutorial!

By: Mathew

Mathew — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:31:49 +0000

That is a really useful article. Not only is advanced quicker it can also be customised as you have done so – that was too tough for me when I tried it!
The holy grail of search is to have a category breakdown, e.g. x results in a, y results in b etc. This is how proper stores have it.

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