Advanced Search sidebar box

31st AUG 2009 | Posted by in Magento, Search
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I was playing a bit with that advanced search form in Magento, so i thought it would be nice touch to add it to left or right column of the store.

Since that multiple selects were causing problems and i also had to get rid of breadcrumb, i created block which extends Mage_CatalogSearch_Block_Advanced_Form functionality, added a little javascript  and packed it all to small example module:

advanced-search-sidebar.rar

Unpack the rar, copy files at its appropriate place following directory structure, disable/enable cache to rebuild configs, layouts, blocks, and you’re on.

advanced-search-sidebar-box-2

I left few comments in the code, thought someone may find them useful. Also be sure to modify

template/sidebarsearch/advanced/sidebar.phtml

and

layout/sidebarsearch.xml

to suit your shop needs, since css is hardcoded in template for example. Regards.

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Ivan Weiler

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Ivan is a team leader and a senior web developer. He gained lots of experience managing some of the most complex Magento projects we had at Inchoo.

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  1. ro_beck
    01-09-2009 at 14:22 | #

    I don’t use yet …
    But i think this module is a great idea.

    tks u for this!

  2. Bill
    10-09-2009 at 19:43 | #

    Great job! Thanks

  3. Bruce Mead
    20-09-2009 at 22:31 | #

    Hi Great Tutorial and awesome blog. Is there a way just have selected search attributes?

    Cheers,
    Bruce

  4. Ivan Weiler
    21-09-2009 at 7:13 | #

    There is “Use in advanced search” option for each attribute, if that’s what you mean. Navigate to Catalog->Attributes->Manage Attributes, click to edit attribute and you’ll see it.

  5. Bruce Mead
    21-09-2009 at 18:09 | #

    Thanks, but I need it the option in the side block to be different form the advanced search page. Any way of doing this?

    Cheers,
    Bruce

  6. Ivan Weiler
    22-09-2009 at 18:53 | #

    No, not without additional programming ..

    The easiest way would be to configure Magento to use in search all attributes you need and then modify both templates to not display what you don’t need there.

  7. roberto
    25-09-2009 at 17:15 | #

    well…..this post is grate… there is just a little problem… if in your search you conffigurated with date it dosent work. i tryed to fix it but nothing…..any answear?

  8. nikl
    01-10-2009 at 13:48 | #

    Looks great, I would love to have this advanced search column only appear on the advanced search results page, while the advanced search link itself still takes me to the normal advanced search window. Ill try and work this out right now

  9. Paaaaa
    29-10-2009 at 19:26 | #

    Is there any way to arrange the position of the attributes, like in layered navigation? I want the price to be at the end..

    Any hint? Thank You.

  10. Paaaaa
    29-10-2009 at 19:30 | #

    Found solution at official forum: Change the file \app\core\mage\catalogsearch\model\advanced.php at around line 47 to setOrder by “position” rather than by “attribute_id”. Then in the attribute settings use the position field as the order you want your fields to appear in.
    Then it uses the position value of attribute.

    Thanks any way for extension)

  11. Ups
    30-10-2009 at 4:15 | #

    Small bug when search by price and write in first input any price, to second input leave a blank box, I get an error:
    Undefined index: to in app/code/core/Mage/CatalogSearch/Model/Advanced.php on line 176

  12. Alejandro Cornejo
    05-11-2009 at 21:59 | #

    Is possible to unload the advanced sidebar just in the home page?.

    Thanks

  13. Sergio
    02-02-2010 at 11:42 | #

    Same error:
    Undefined index: to in app/code/core/Mage/CatalogSearch/Model/Advanced.php on line 176
    In price range when for example fill only one field.
    ¿?

  14. Mike Houtepen
    08-02-2010 at 11:53 | #

    @ Ups and Sergio, a simple sollution for this bug is to add the following line:

    if (is_array($value) && !isset($value['to'])) $value['to'] = ”;

    in app/code/coreMage/CatelogSearch/Model/Advanced.php

    before the line:

    if (is_array($value) && (isset($value['from']) || isset($value['to']))){

  15. heidi
    09-03-2010 at 7:32 | #

    Am I missing something? I’m using Magento 1.4. I followed the directions and nothing appears in the sidebar. Do I need to edit another file or something? Love this post if I could get it to work, thanks much.

  16. Ups
    27-05-2010 at 11:24 | #

    Mike Houtepen better solution copy paste form template in this block and all…. :)

  17. molecule
    28-05-2010 at 4:57 | #

    Great tip with sorting the advanced search attributes, worked a treat in 1.3.2.4, thanks!

  18. Mike Houtepen
    28-05-2010 at 10:57 | #

    @ Ups;

    That was my first solutions and did not solve all of it, the solution i gave a few comments earlier was not that good either anyway…

    Solved it an other way now :) .. Anyways thanks ;)

  19. Tihku
    31-05-2010 at 11:35 | #

    @ Mike Houtepen ;

    Hey, I’ve been having the same problem, if I leave forms empty, it just throws and error. I’d need advanced search on the left with category, but both this system here^^ and category-thing on the wiki just throws only errors to me. (http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/how-to/how_to_add_search_by_category_to_advanced_search) Could someone please upload a working sidebar on the left with category option? I’d be really thankful!

  20. sunyen
    07-10-2010 at 17:46 | #

    how do i add the advanced search sidebar into all my product pages (catalog), not just the homepage?

    thanks!!!

  21. William
    22-11-2010 at 14:25 | #

    Hi,

    Great piece of code thanks.

    My products have some Custom Options set (size), is it possible we could include these in the advanced search?

    These Custom Options do not show up in the attributes field and am not sure if there is another way to assign these to the advanced search.

  22. Erik
    05-01-2011 at 19:26 | #

    I still get the following error when one price is entered in the price range fields:
    Undefined index: to in app/code/core/Mage/CatalogSearch/Model/Advanced.php on line 176

    Is there a solution to get this working?

    Thanks!!

  23. Allison
    24-01-2011 at 18:56 | #

    This was a lifesaver, thank you!!

  24. oserk
    28-01-2011 at 16:19 | #

    Hi,

    great post!

    I’m in the process of learning magento, and I’m just wondering is something like this possible like on this page: http://goo.gl/IYdA6. Filters in the middle of the page sort some other things like brands, price selection .. more detailed search I think.

  25. NCG
    01-03-2011 at 19:05 | #

    HI, I am new to Magento.. I would like to know if this can be installed / configured to work with Magento 1.5.0.1 version? where can i download the latest version and any how to steps to configure it? PLEASE ANY HELP.

  26. Wally
    11-04-2011 at 0:12 | #

    I have installed the sidebar and I would like to be able to search using Date. I have created a custom attribute that is visible in advance search and each product has a date associated to it. The sidebar however is not showing the calendar pop-up so a date can be entered. Is there a way to fix this so searching by date is possible? Thanks so much.

  27. Peter
    22-08-2011 at 16:56 | #

    Hello, I am running Magento 1.5, I am new to Magento and have only been working for a month now with it. I feel that I’m missing a step here because after importing the code it’s not working.

  28. Pakistan Classified
    18-09-2011 at 10:22 | #

    I want only ajax based advance search module

  29. Ben
    22-10-2011 at 10:15 | #

    I can confirm this works in 1.6 … just make sure you uncomment the ‘default’ block in the sidebarsearch.xml file – this brought me unstuck initally.

  30. sjolzy
    29-11-2011 at 10:16 | #

    good works! but i like to have it show left filter in the search results page. any ideas? thank you :D

  31. nicholas manderfield
    24-01-2012 at 3:34 | #

    I love you.

  32. COBAY
    19-02-2012 at 12:29 | #

    Good Idea !
    Thanks.

  33. Dmitry
    21-02-2012 at 11:28 | #

    Thanks a lot. I use the latest magento version and your module still works :-)

  34. Brad
    08-05-2012 at 1:13 | #

    Hi, can anyone please help me get this advanced search module to show up in my header? I want to replace the simple search with this advanced search.

    Ver 1.5.1

    Thanks

  35. Joey
    20-06-2012 at 4:02 | #

    With regards to changing the sort order of the attributes in the advanced search, just changing:

    ->setOrder(‘main_table.attribute_id’, ‘asc’

    to

    ->setOrder(‘main_table.position’, ‘asc’)

    will not work because “main_table.position” doesn’t actually exist (in version 1.6.2). All you need to do is simply change:

    ->setOrder(‘main_table.attribute_id’ )

    TO

    ->setOrder(‘additional_table.position’, ‘asc’)

    This can be found in app\code\core\Mage\CatalogSearch\Model\Advanced.php on line 118

  36. Makoto
    12-09-2012 at 14:07 | #

    I can´t translate the word “Show All” of dropdown menu of the search box. I modified these files app/code/local/Inchoo/SidebarSearch/Block/Advanced/Sidebar.php

    app/design/frontend/default/default/template/sidebarsearch/advanced/sidebar.phtml

    But no success. Any know how?

  37. dragy
    02-12-2012 at 16:31 | #

    I have same problem with “Show All” translate. Anybody know? thx

  38. Makoto
    25-12-2012 at 14:45 | #

    dragy
    my “Show All” word suddenly changed after months. I believe its some cache issue. It just takes long time for the translation to be reflected.

  39. Akash Patel
    07-02-2013 at 5:59 | #

    Is it possible to add layered navigation in advanced search result like magento default navigation display in search result page.

  40. Purvi123
    07-02-2013 at 11:54 | #

    thanks

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