Magento - Tips and Tricks

Create below mentioned files in the app/core/code/local directory with complete directory structure as in Magento core.

app\code\local\Mage\Catalog\Block\Product\List\Toolbar.php
In this file replace the setCollection function with following:

public function setCollection($collection)
 {
 $this->_collection = $collection;
 $this->_collection->setCurPage($this->getCurrentPage());
 // we need to set pagination only if passed value integer and more that 0
 $limit = (int)$this->getLimit();
 $postData = '';
 if ($limit) {
 $this->_collection->setPageSize($limit);
 }
 if ($this->getCurrentOrder()) 
 {
 /**********Alphabetic search Code Start From here**********/
 $postData = Mage::app()->getRequest()->getParam('alpha').'%';
 if(isset($postData['alpha']) && $postData['alpha']!= '' && trim($postData) !='ALL')
 {
 $this->_collection->setOrder($this->getCurrentOrder(), $this->getCurrentDirection())->addAttributeToFilter(array(
 array('attribute'=>'name', 'like'=>$postData)
 ));
 }
 else
 {
 $this->_collection->setOrder($this->getCurrentOrder(), $this->getCurrentDirection());
 }
 /**********Alphabetic search Code ends here**********/
 }
 return $this;
 }

app\design\frontend\default\default\template\catalog\product\list\toolbar_bottom.phtml
Open this file an replace the code with given below:

<?php 
$search_array = array('A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H','I','J','K','L','M','N','O','P','Q','R','S','T','U','V','W','X','Y','Z','ALL');
/*Find if the URL already contains any querystring variable or not */
if (strstr( $this->helper('core/url')->getCurrentUrl(), "&" ))
{
 $separator = '&'; 
}
else
{
 $separator = '?';
}
?>
 <div>
 <p class="view-mode-list-bot">
 <?php 
 $postData = Mage::app()->getRequest()->getParam('alpha');
 foreach ($search_array as $search_array_value):
 
 /*Clean the URL*/
 if (strstr( $this->helper('core/url')->getCurrentUrl(), "?" ) )
 {
 $new_Url = $this->str_replace_once('&','?',str_replace("?alpha=".trim($postData['alpha']),'',str_replace($separator."alpha=".trim($postData['alpha']),'',$this->helper('core/url')->getCurrentUrl())));
 }
 else
 {
 $new_Url = str_replace("?alpha=".trim($postData['alpha']),'',str_replace($separator."alpha=".trim($postData['alpha']),'',$this->helper('core/url')->getCurrentUrl()));
 }
 $alphaURL = $new_Url.$separator.'alpha='.$search_array_value;
?>
 
 <a href="<?php echo $alphaURL; ?>" title="<?php echo $_label ?>" class="<?php echo strtolower($_code); ?> <?php if($search_array_value == $postData){ echo 'remove_under'; } ?>"><?php echo $search_array_value; ?></a>  
 
 <?php endforeach; ?>
 
 </p>
 
 </div>

Posted by Bhoopendra Dwivedi at 12:25 AM

Labels: Magento