Get product by name in magento 1.9

Question

How to get product by name? I have the name of the product in my code and iIwant to get product so I use this code :

$model = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
$product = $model->load('name-of-product','product_name');   

To get product but it return a null object(Mage_Catalog_Model_Product) iIuse this code for other models and it worked but for 'catalog/product' not working. How to get product?

Answer 1

Try this

$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->loadByAttribute('name', $productName); 

Note: Make sure your name attribute code is proper.

In addition

loadByAttribute() basically loads the product collection and filter those collection by attribute you have specified and then it is returns the collection first item.

$collection = $this->getResourceCollection()
    ->addAttributeToSelect($additionalAttributes)
    ->addAttributeToFilter($attribute, $value)
    ->setPage(1,1);

Answer 2

Try this, Hope it's helpful to you.

$products = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')
                    ->getCollection()
                    ->addAttributeToFilter(
                        array(
                            array('attribute' => 'name', 'like' => '%'.$search.'%')
                        )
                    )
                    ->getFirstItem();