Magento: Resource Model 'loadByAttribute' with multiple parameters - magento

I need a way to locate a Magento object my multiple attributes. I can look up an object by a single parameter using the 'loadByAttribute' method, as follows.
$mageObj->loadByAttribute('name', 'Test Category');
However, I have been unable to get this to work for multiple parameters. For example, I would like to be able to do the above query using all of the following search parameters. It might look something like the following.
$mageObj->loadByAttribute(array('entity_id' => 128,
'parent_id' => 1,
'name' => 'Test Category'));
Yes, I know that you don't need all of these fields to find a single category record. However, I am writing a module to export and import a whole website, and I need to test if an object, such as a category, already exists on the target system before I create it. To do this, i have to check to see if an object of the same type, with multiple matching attributes already exists, even if it's ID is different.

This may not answer your question, but it may solve your problem.
Magento does not support loadByAttribute for multiple attributes, but instead you can do this.
$collection = $mageObj->getCollection()
->addAttributeToFilter('entity_id', 128)
->addAttributeToFilter('parent_id', 1)
->addAttributeToFilter('name', 'Test Category');
$item = $collection->getFirstItem();
if ($item->getId()){
//the item exists
}
else {
//the item does not exist
}
addAttributeToFilter works for EAV entities (products, categories, customers).
For flat entities use addFieldToFilter.
There is a special case for sales entities (orders, invoices, creditmemos and shipments) that can use both of them.

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Adding a custom sorting to listing with an aggregate in shopware 6

I am trying to build a custom sorting for the product listings in shopware 6.
I want to include a foreign table (entity is: leasingPlanEntity), get the min of one of the fields of that table (period_price) and then order the search result by that value.
I have already built a Subscriber, and try it like that, what seems to work.
public static function getSubscribedEvents(): array
{
return [
//ProductListingCollectFilterEvent::class => 'addFilter'
ProductListingCriteriaEvent::class => ['addCriteria', 5000]
];
}
public function addCriteria(ProductListingCriteriaEvent $event): void
{
$criteria = $event->getCriteria();
$criteria->addAssociation('leasingPlan');
$criteria->addAggregation(new MinAggregation('min_period_price', 'leasingPlan.periodPrice'));
// Sortierung hinzufügen.
$availableSortings = $event->getCriteria()->getExtension('sortings') ?? new ProductSortingCollection();
$myCustomSorting = new ProductSortingEntity();
$myCustomSorting->setId(Uuid::randomHex());
$myCustomSorting->setActive(true);
$myCustomSorting->setTranslated(['label' => 'My Custom Sorting at runtime']);
$myCustomSorting->setKey('my-custom-runtime-sort');
$myCustomSorting->setPriority(5);
$myCustomSorting->setFields([
[
'field' => 'leasingPlan.periodPrice',
'order' => 'asc',
'priority' => 1,
'naturalSorting' => 0,
],
]);
$availableSortings->add($myCustomSorting);
$event->getCriteria()->addExtension('sortings', $availableSortings);
}
Is this already the right way to get the min(periodPrice)? Or is it taking just a random value out of the leasingPlan table to define the sort-order?
I didn't find a way, to define the min_period_price aggregate value in the $myCustomSorting->setFields Methods.
Update 1
Some days later, I asked a less complex question in the shopware community on slack:
Is it possible to use the DAL to define a subquery for an association in the product-listing?
It should generate something like:
FROM
JOIN (
SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE ... GROUP BY ... ORDER BY ...
) AS ...
The answer there was:
Don't think so
Update 2
I also did an in-deep anlysis of the DAL-Query-Builder, and it really seems to be not possible, to perform a subquery with the current version.
Update 3 - Different approach
A different approach might be, to define custom fields in the main entity. Every time a change is made on the main entity, the values of this custom fields should be recalculated.
It is a lot of overhead work, to realize this. Especially when the fields you are adding, are dependend on other data like the availability of a product in the store, for example.
So check, if it is worth the extra work. Would be better, to have a solution for building subqueries.
Unfortunately it seems that in your case there is no easy way to achieve this, if I understand the issue correctly.
Consider the following: for each product you can have multiple leasingPlan entities, and I assume that for a given context (like a specific sales channel or listing) that still holds. This means that you would have to sort the leasingPlan entities by price, then take the one with the lowest price, and then sort the products by their lowest-price leasingPlan's price.
There seems to be no other way to achieve that, and unfortunately for you, sorting is applied at the end, even if it is sort of a subquery.
So, for example, if you have the following snippet
$criteria = $event->getCriteria();
$criteria->addAssociation('leasingPlan');
$criteria->getAssociation('leasingPlan')
->addSorting(new FieldSorting('price', FieldSorting::ASCENDING))
->setLimit(1)
;
The actual price-sorting would be applied AFTER the leasingPlan entities are fetched - essentially the results would be sorted, meaning that you would not get the cheapest leasing plan per product, instead getting the first one.
You can only do something like that with filters, but in this case there is nothing to filter by - I assume you don't have one leasingPlan per SalesChannel or per language, so that you could limit that list to just one entry that could be used for sorting
That is not to mention that this could not be included in a ProductSortingEntity, but you could always work around that by plugging into the appropriate events and modifying the criteria during runtime
I see two ways to resolve your issue
Making another table which would store the cheapest leasingPlan per product and just using that as your association
Storing the information about the cheapest leasingPlans in e.g. cache and using that for filtering (caution: a mistake here would probably break the sorting, for example if you end up with too few or too many leasingPlans per product)
public function applyCustomSorting(ProductListingCriteriaEvent $event): void
{
// One leasingPlan per one product
$cheapestLeasingPlans = $this->myCustomService->getCheapestLeasingPlanIds();
$criteria = $event->getCriteria();
$criteria->addAssociation('leasingPlan');
$criteria->getAssociation('leasingPlan')
->addSorting(new FieldSorting('price', FieldSorting::ASCENDING))
->addFilter(new EqualsAnyFilter('id', $cheapestLeasingPlans))
;
}
And then you could sort by
$criteria->addSorting(new FieldSorting('leasingPlan.periodPrice', FieldSorting::ASCENDING));
There should be no need to add the association manually and to add the aggregation to the criteria, that should happen automatically behind the scenes if your custom sorting is selected in the storefront.
For more information refer to the official docs.

How to exclude product(s) from search result programatically in Magento

I'm trying to exclude products from populating the search result.
It seems to be working fine on my localhost but not on clients dev server.
I'm observing the event
catalog_block_product_list_collection
and in observer method, in the end is this code:
$observer->getCollection()
->addFieldToFilter('entity_id', array('nin' => array_keys($_excludeProducts)))
->clear()
->load();
which works for catalog as well and search result list but for the moment not on search result list on clients dev server.
Any guidance/help is greatly appreciated.
Edit: Debugging this method gives me an empty collection but still the data is populating from somewhere.
I've changed the approach and used another event: catalog_product_collection_load_before
found better method to implement the approach with less code. #optimization
$excludeIds = array(2,3,4); //$excludeIds mixed
$observer->getCollection()
->addIdFilter($excludeIds, true); //exclude = true
The event also helps in keeping the correct items count on toolbar as it is dispatched before collection load.
I ran into a similar issue when trying to filter this collection using this event.
Do you have flat categories and flat products set the same in both environments? In my case, my code would only work with flat tables OFF, since I was using joining other EAV attributes.
In your case, if you are using flat, I think you just need to do addAttributeToFilter() instead.
In my case, here is what my observer looks like:
function onCategoryCollectionLoad($observer) {
$collection = $observer->getEvent()->getCategoryCollection();
$customerGroupId = (int) Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomerGroupId();
// hidden_from_groups is an EAV attribute; I couldn't figure out how to make it work with flat because it has a backend_model
$collection->addAttributeToSelect('hidden_from_groups');
$collection->addExpressionAttributeToSelect('should_be_hidden', "COALESCE(FIND_IN_SET($customerGroupId, {{attribute}}), 0)", 'hidden_from_groups');
// should_be_hidden is not a real db field (nor EAV attribute); it only exists because of the addExpressionAttributeToSelect() above.
$collection->addFieldToFilter('should_be_hidden', array('lt' => 1));
// I don't call $collection->load(); that will get called further down the line.
}

How to find associated products from grouped product is they are disabled?

I am trying to get the associated products from a grouped product.I can do that, but not for the products that they are disabled. I tried a solution which mention to set : Use Flat Catalog Product to "NO" but i still can't. Any other ideas? I tried load a collection and use filters like IS_ENABLED OR DISABLED and by loading Models like
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($id);
$associatedProducts = $product->getTypeInstance(true)->getAssociatedProducts($product);
Any other ideas?
So lets look at the getAssociatedProducts() method of Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Type_Grouped class. Here's the interesting part of it:
if (!Mage::app()->getStore()->isAdmin()) {
$this->setSaleableStatus($product);
}
$collection = $this->getAssociatedProductCollection($product)
->addAttributeToSelect('*')
->addFilterByRequiredOptions()
->setPositionOrder()
->addStoreFilter($this->getStoreFilter($product))
->addAttributeToFilter('status', array('in' => $this->getStatusFilters($product)));
As you can see Magento adds status to collection filter. Method getStatusFilters() returns product statuses to apply on filter. If you would look at the body of this method you would see that it returns basically $product->getData($this->_keyStatusFitlers).
This method needs to return 2 values (2 statuses). But it doesn't. Responsible for that is if statement before the collection set up:
if (!Mage::app()->getStore()->isAdmin()) {
$this->setSaleableStatus($product);
}
This parts will set only ENABLED status on the product status filters.
If you want to get disabled products from grouped product you have rewrite Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Type_Grouped class and remove the if statement and/or set proper filters.
Let me know if you don't know how to rewrite a Magento class, then I will extend this answer.

Magento - get results view HTML for a collection of products

I get a list of magento ids from a web service. I load these into and array $product_ids, so I have something like this:
Array
(
[0] => 1965
[1] => 3371
[2] => 1052
)
I can then make this into a collection:
$collection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()
->addIdFilter($product_ids);
Using my Magento inspector, I've seen that the category pages use the class Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List to display lists of products. I'd like to do something similar in my class. I've tried loading:
$ProductList = new Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List();
$ProductList->setCollection($collection);
And then I've tried to load the HTML of the results as follows:
$CollectionHTML = $ProductList->_toHtml();
But $CollectionHTML is empty.
How would I get the HTML of what you see in the list view (i.e. the generated output of frontend/base/default/template/catalog/product/list.phtml, but given my collection)?
Making the code work the right way is much more easier in Magento than trying to work with ugly legacy code. I would gladly help you make the code the proper way when you have specific questions. Also, in the longterm, technical debt is gonna cost alot more.
Anyway, back to your issue.
In Magento block are not instantiated like in any app $myvar = new className ... almost never. This tutorial can help you understand better Magento's layout and blocks.
But if you want to create a block a way to do it is:
$block = Mage::getSingleton('core/layout')->createBlock('catalog/product_list')
Now related to your product collection you should check how Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List::_getProductCollection actually works, because it uses the layered navigation, not a simple product collection.
Further, assuming that at least you are using a Magento controller and you are within a function, the following code will display the first page of products for a specified category:
//$category_id needs to be set
$layout = Mage::getSingleton('core/layout');
$toolbar = $layout->createBlock('catalog/product_list_toolbar');
$block = $layout->createBlock('catalog/product_list');
$block->setChild('toolbar', $toolbar);
$block->setCategoryId($category_id);
$block->setTemplate('catalog/product/list.phtml');
$collection = $block->getLoadedProductCollection();
$toolbar->setCollection($collection);
//render block object
echo $block->renderView();
Displaying specific ids:
you use root category id for $category_id variable (also make sure that display root category is set (or another category id that contains your product ids)
you can hook into catalog_block_product_list_collection event to add your ID Filter to the collection (this is called in _beforeToHtml function)
But, all this construction is not solid and there are still some points that require attention (other child blocks, filters and so on)

Magento addFieldToFilter allow NULLs

When using the Magento collection method addFieldToFilter is it possible to allow filtering by NULL values? I want to select all the products in a collection that have a custom attribute even if no value is assigned to the attribute.
I see you already found a solution, but there is also this option:
$collection->addFieldToFilter('parent_item_id', array('null' => true));
But if you want to use "NULL" => false, which DOESN'T WORK.
(and I noticed you can use elements such as "in", "nin", "eq", "neq", "gt"), you can do this:
$collection->addFieldToFilter('parent_item_id', array('neq' => 'NULL' ));
Hope this is still helpful...
This works for NOT NULL filters
$collection->addFieldToFilter('parent_item_id', array('notnull' => true));
Filtering a product collection by null/empty attributes has two possible solutions. Magento uses an INNER JOIN to grab the values of the attributes to filter. BUT if the product attribute is not assigned a value the join will fail, as a database table / relationship is missing.
Solution #1: Use addAttributeToFilter() and change the join type from "inner" (the default) to "left":
$collection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection();
$collection->addAttributeToFilter('custom_attribute', array( ... condition options ..), 'left');
Solution #2: Make sure your custom attribute has a default value. Magento is conservative in this regard. Magento will only create the relationship between an attribute and a product if a value is given for the attribute. So in the absence of user-specified value or a default value the attribute will not be accessible for filtering a product even if the attribute appears in the product detail view under the admin panel.
Because the question does not match exactly the title of the question and I found the them multiple times by searching for a condition like: special VALUE OR NULL
If you want to filter a collection matching a VALUE OR NULL, then you can use:
$collection->addFieldToFilter('<attribute>', array(
array('eq' => '<value>'),
array('null' => true)
));
You don't need to use addFieldToFilter.
now the solution:
attributes name is known as code in magento, you just need to use the code below to get all of the products which have a specific attribute as an array
$prodsArray=Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()
->addAttributeToFilter('custom_attribute_code')
->getItems();
you can also specify certain conditions for attribute's value in addAttributeToFilter in the second parameter of addAttributeToFilter.
you can find this method in this file (for further study):
app/code/core/Mage/Eav/Model/Entity/Collection/Abstract.php

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