Adding filter attribute to search query?

Question

Magento 2.4

Is there a way to add an attribute to the search query every time a search is triggered?

Example searching for "test": https://www.example.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=test

I want to add status=41%2C42%2C43%2C45, so that it looks like this in the end:

https://www.example.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=test&status=41%2C42%2C43%2C45

I thought this might not be too hard to do, but I found nothing useful so far. Is it possible, also considering that ther search is done with elasticsearch?

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you want to add the status to filter automatically, I have an introduce for you in here https://github.com/hieuhidro/customfilter

• This module adding a custom filter which allow you modify the layer navigator and product collection before push the query to elasticsearch or mysql search.

Answer 2

Yes it's always possible. THe only thing you have to do is to modify the base template to add the status tag in the generaated url by concatenation it should work.The it would be sent like any other get param that you can retrieve.

If the final url isn't called in a template but in an extra elastic block or controller file, the same logic applies. All you have to do is to find where the link is called.

Assuming your url is built in there and assuming you want to do it for every request

here is the method you need to extend from vendor/magento/module-search/Helper/Data.php

/**
 * Retrieve result page url and set "secure" param to avoid confirm
 * message when we submit form from secure page to unsecure
 *
 * @param   string $query
 * @return  string
 */
public function getResultUrl($query = null)
{
    return $this->_getUrl(
        'catalogsearch/result',
        ['_query' => [QueryFactory::QUERY_VAR_NAME => $query], '_secure' => $this->_request->isSecure()]
    );
}

All you have to do is to make a preference on that class, and to rewrite the method concatenating on the return ."&status=".$status

Second argument of getUrl is also taking params, may be also check if you cannot set the status directly in there rather than concatenating which is kinda ugly way to do it.