Question

In Magento I’m using the following code to get a bestsellers data collection:

Model Function:

  public function bestSellers($limit = 12){

    $storeId    = Mage::app()->getStore()->getId();
    $_productCollection = Mage::getResourceModel('reports/product_collection')
        ->addOrderedQty()
        ->addAttributeToSelect('id')
        ->setStoreId($storeId)
        ->addStoreFilter($storeId)
        ->setOrder('ordered_qty', 'desc') //best sellers on top
        ->setPageSize($limit); 

    Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_status')->addVisibleFilterToCollection($_productCollection);
    Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_visibility')->addVisibleInCatalogFilterToCollection($_productCollection);

    return $_productCollection; 

}

Block Output:

<?php $products = Mage::getModel('tabs/collections')->bestSellers($limit); ?>
<pre>
    <?php print_r($productCollection->getData()); ?>
</pre>

However it returns nothing when the addVisibleInCatalogFilterToCollection line is used in the model function, but if I remove the addVisibleInCatalogFilterToCollection line, then it returns an array of expected bestselling product data (including the ones that shouldn’t be visible in the catalog).

How can I return my array of data with the visibility filter working as it should? Rather than returning nothing. Very confused. Thanks in advance!

Here’s the getSelect:

   SELECT SUM(order_items.qty_ordered) AS `ordered_qty`, `order_items`.`name` AS `order_items_name`, `order_items`.`product_id` AS `entity_id`, `e`.`entity_type_id`, `e`.`attribute_set_id`, `e`.`type_id`, `e`.`sku`, `e`.`has_options`, `e`.`required_options`, `e`.`created_at`, `e`.`updated_at`, `cat_index`.`position` AS `cat_index_position` FROM `sales_flat_order_item` AS `order_items`
  INNER JOIN `sales_flat_order` AS `order` ON `order`.entity_id = order_items.order_id AND `order`.state <> 'canceled'
  LEFT JOIN `catalog_product_entity` AS `e` ON (e.type_id NOT IN ('grouped', 'configurable', 'bundle')) AND e.entity_id = order_items.product_id AND e.entity_type_id = 4
  INNER JOIN `catalog_category_product_index` AS `cat_index` ON cat_index.product_id=e.entity_id AND cat_index.store_id='1' AND cat_index.visibility IN(2, 4) AND cat_index.category_id='2' WHERE (parent_item_id IS NULL) GROUP BY `order_items`.`product_id` HAVING (SUM(order_items.qty_ordered) > 0) ORDER BY `ordered_qty` desc

Answer 1

Here is my Block which i use to obtain bestsellers. It also does simple products that are variants of parental configurable products, to configurable products (works correctly only if one simple products is assigned to max 1 configurable product): http://devblog.fishol.pl/bestselling-products-in-magento/