Question

I am looking to write an SQL query directly on the Magento database that gets all Simple products that have the visibility attribute of “not visible individually”, for which the value is 1 i believe.

Can anyone help with this? So far I have discovered that the visibility value is set in the table

catalog_product_entity_int

but have been unable to progress further. Thanks

Answer 1

There are many reasons to not do this without the ORM, all of which may (or may not) apply to your needs (store filters, reading data from the correct table, etc). At the very least, you can use the product collection object to build the query which you would run:

$coll = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection();
$coll->addAttributeToFilter('visibility' , Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Visibility::VISIBILITY_NOT_VISIBLE);
echo $coll->getSelect();

The resulting query will look like this:

SELECT `e`.*, IF(at_visibility.value_id > 0, at_visibility.value, at_visibility_default.value) AS `visibility`
FROM `catalog_product_entity` AS `e`
INNER JOIN `catalog_product_entity_int` AS `at_visibility_default`
    ON (`at_visibility_default`.`entity_id` = `e`.`entity_id`)
    AND (`at_visibility_default`.`attribute_id` = '526')
    AND `at_visibility_default`.`store_id` = 0
LEFT JOIN `catalog_product_entity_int` AS `at_visibility` ON (`at_visibility`.`entity_id` = `e`.`entity_id`)
    AND (`at_visibility`.`attribute_id` = '526')
    AND (`at_visibility`.`store_id` = 1)
WHERE (IF(at_visibility.value_id > 0, at_visibility.value, at_visibility_default.value) = '1')