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I have defined a featured product template in a cms static page as below:

{{block class="Magento\Catalog\Block\Product\ListProduct" template="Magento_Catalog::product/featured.phtml"}}

Now I want to load original product collection(without any filters applied, which I am gonna apply later) inside my template "featured.phtml", but I can't find a way to do it directly without creating a module for such a tiny task.

Somebody let me know, how to do something like below in Magento2, in this case: Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()

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  • Have you tried \Magento\Catalog\Block\Product\ListProduct::getLoadedProductCollection? It is accessible in your template just as $this->getLoadedProductCollection(). Dec 1, 2015 at 11:37
  • Yes tried that already, but it is already a filtered collection with very less products, I need raw colleciton without any filters like $this->getCollection()
    – Vicky Dev
    Dec 1, 2015 at 11:39

4 Answers 4

12

It is better to create custom block for your needs. It is not clear why you can create custom template, but not block. Also have you considered using \Magento\Catalog\Api\ProductRepositoryInterface::getList which is part of Magento public API? Collection should not be manipulated directly.

Implementation below is a hack (object manager should never be used directly), but the only solution without creation of a new block:

$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
/** @var \Magento\Catalog\Model\ResourceModel\Product\Collection $productCollection */
$productCollection = $objectManager->create('Magento\Catalog\Model\ResourceModel\Product\Collection');
/** Apply filters here */
$productCollection->load();
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  • Thanks for reply, can you tell me how to filter this collection by category_id, I tried filtering using function addFieldToFilter but it gives error, I guess addField.... function only works for table's own fields not with joining tables.
    – Vicky Dev
    Dec 1, 2015 at 12:27
  • 1
    $productCollection->addCategoriesFilter(['in' => [1, 2, 3]]) should work. Dec 1, 2015 at 13:07
  • Thanks, your solution is working perfectly for now. Accepting it.
    – Vicky Dev
    Dec 1, 2015 at 13:13
  • @AlexPaliarush How do i use filter by attribute and select attribute like name, id, v.v.. via ProductRepository example:$this->_productRepository->getList($this->_searchCriteria)->addAttributeToFilter('is_featured', 1) results undefined method trigger
    – mrtuvn
    Jan 12, 2016 at 10:36
  • @mrtuvn $this->_searchCriteria should contain necessary filters. addAttributeToFilter is defined for collections and is not available for repositories. Take a look at these answers Jan 12, 2016 at 14:32
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Instead of using the Object manager u can try:

public function __construct(
    \Magento\Backend\Block\Template\Context $context,        
    \Magento\Catalog\Model\ResourceModel\Product\CollectionFactory $productCollectionFactory,        
    array $data = []
)
{    
    $this->_productCollectionFactory = $productCollectionFactory;    
    parent::__construct($context, $data);
}

 public function getProductCollection()
{
    $collection = $this->_productCollectionFactory->create();
    $collection->addAttributeToSelect('*');
    $collection->setPageSize(3); // fetching only 3 products
    return $collection;
}
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In your block file:

use Magento\Catalog\Model\ProductFactory;
use Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\Context;

protected $_productFactory;

public function __construct(
   Context $context, 
   ProductFactory $productFactory,
   array $data = array()       
) {
   $this->_productFactory   = $productFactory;
   parent::__construct($context, $data);
}

public function getProductCollection() {
   $productCollection = $this->_productFactory->create()->getCollection();
   return $productCollection;
}

To get the collection call getProductCollection function.

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  • 1
    product Factory is used to create new product, don't use it that way Jul 25, 2016 at 10:38
  • you can check the default magento 2 files it uses product factory. Jul 26, 2016 at 4:06
  • 5
    you should use CollectionFactory instead Jul 26, 2016 at 6:17
0

Try this :

    protected $_productCollectionFactory;

    public function __construct(
        \Magento\Catalog\Model\ResourceModel\Product\CollectionFactory $productCollectionFactory,
        array $data = []
    ) {
        $this->_productCollectionFactory = $productCollectionFactory;
        parent::__construct($data);
    }



    public function getProductCollection()
    {
        /** @var $collection \Magento\Catalog\Model\ResourceModel\Product\Collection */
        $collection = $this->_productCollectionFactory->create();
        return $collection;
    }
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  • Not working in Magento 2 stable version.
    – Vicky Dev
    Dec 1, 2015 at 11:29
  • updated ans pls check
    – Abdul
    Dec 1, 2015 at 11:35
  • I know that by overriding the Block(probably in our own module) it can be done, but I am asking for doing this without module way as I mentioned in my question.
    – Vicky Dev
    Dec 1, 2015 at 11:37

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