Display layered navigation links in footer

Question

I want to display the links layered navigation which shows all products that have a certain attribute value.

For example, I have 3 categories with products in them. Each category can have different manufacturers for products. I want the footer to have a link for manufacturer which shows all products with that manufacturer regardless of which category they are in. I want to have multiple sections in the footer where each section will do this for a different custom attribute.

Answer 1

This may not be a layered navigation solution but it will do what you're describing. You'll want to put this code in an extension and pull it in as a block in your footer instead of just placing it in footer.phtml.

$attribute_code = "gender"; // your attribute code
$attribute_value = 93;    // id of the attribute value
$product_limit = 3;        // number of products to return

$product_collection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()
              ->addAttributeToSelect('*')  // return all attributes. you can add additional lines to pull specific attributes to be more efficient
              ->addFieldToFilter(array(array('attribute'=>$attribute_code,'eq'=>$attribute_value))) 
              ->setPageSize($product_limit) // number of products to return
              ->setCurPage(1);

foreach ($product_collection as $product) {

    $product_name = $product->getName();
    // you can pull all the attributes you want to display here

    echo '<div class="product">'.$product_name.'</div>';
    // create your product layout and display the data here
}