display particular category products in empty search result page

Question

In empty search result page, I need to display the product list of a particular category. So, I have added the code

<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('catalog/product_list')->setCategoryId(5)->setTemplate('catalog/product/list.phtml')->toHtml()?> 

in catalogsearch/result.phtml. But this is not worked.

While check the flow, I have found that $this->getLayer() calls the catalogsearch in app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/List.php. Can I change the layer as Catalog, if the search is empty. If it is possible to change the layer, then how to do that?

Answer 1

Write down below code in your result.phtml

1. check weather search result contains result record more then 1.

2. If not write down following code...

   $category_id=2; // your category id here..

   $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load(trim($category_id));
   
       foreach ($category->getProductCollection() as $product) {
   
       $product= Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($product->getId());
       echo $product->getData("name");
   
   }