Question

I need to access the currently loaded search results as an array but from within catalog/layer/view.phtml.

I’ve tried using the following code, but it returns an empty array…

$products = $this->getLayout()  
                 ->getBlockSingleton('catalog/product_list')
                 ->getLoadedProductCollection()
                 ->toArray();

echo "<pre>".print_r($products,true)."</pre>";
die();

Is this even possible?

Answer 1

You need to get the search Model.

Here is the code to get the Search model:

$search = Mage::getSingleton('catalogsearch/advanced');

Here is the code to search your products:

$search = Mage::getSingleton('catalogsearch/advanced')->addFilters(array('name' => $term));

Then to get the results in an object, enter the following line:

$search->getProductCollection();

Good luck,

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