Getting the product collection from an advanced search

Question

I'm trying to get the product collection containing only the products that appear in a search, from inside app\design\frontend[theme]\catalog\layer\view.phtml

I've tried:

$search = Mage::getSingleton('catalogsearch/advanced');
$searchCollection = $search->getProductCollection()->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', 4);

and

$searchCollection = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->getProductCollection();
$searchCollection = Mage::getSingleton('catalogsearch/advanced')->prepareProductCollection( $searchCollection );
$searchCollection = $searchCollection->getProductCollection();

Both of these return every single product on the site, not just the ones in the search results.

Can anyone help?

Answer 1

This was the only working solution I could find: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20978893/whats-the-proper-way-to-call-catalogsearch-from-a-custom-block-in-magento

Though I did replace

$searchText = 'ipad';

with

$searchText = Mage::helper('catalogsearch')->getQueryText();

to make it dynamic.

Answer 2

Well we know the product collection is loaded and present somewhere, so rather than querying the database again, if we know we are in the context of a search results page it is probably safe to just get the collection from the list block.

On a /catalogsearch/result page the list block will be at search_result_list, so we can fetch it from any block or template with:

$oListBlock = $this->getLayout()->getBlock('search_result_list')

And from here we can get the product collection off the block with:

$oListBlock->getLoadedProductCollection();

Also the Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List::getLoadedProductCollection() method calls Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List::_getProductCollection which does some digging for a usable product collection, which is handy if you're writing a block that needs to be used in a few different circumstances.

Answer 3

Are you looking for this,

$search = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection();
$searchCollection = $search->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', '3');