Magento: Filter products by Status - magento

Question

I'm having some serious Magento issues here. As expected the following:
$products = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($category_id)
->getProductCollection()
->addAttributeToSelect('*')
->addAttributeToFilter('status', array('eq' => 1));
Will return all enabled products for my $category_id. However this:
$products = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($category_id)
->getProductCollection()
->addAttributeToSelect('*')
->addAttributeToFilter('status', array('eq' => 0));
Does not return disabled products. I can't seem to find a way to return disabled products, and I don't know why.
I've tried this:
Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_status')->addVisibleFilterToCollection($products);
Which was meant to have worked, but apparently may have been deprecated.
Does anyone know how to get all products in a category, enabled and disabled?

Answer 1

Don't worry, you simply got trapped by a very unusual constant definition^^. Just try:
$products = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($category_id)
->getProductCollection()
->addAttributeToSelect('*')
->addAttributeToFilter(
'status',
array('eq' => Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Status::STATUS_DISABLED)
);
For whatever reasons Varien decided to define this STATUS_DISABLED constant with a value of 2, instead of the more intuitive (and commonly used) value of 0.

Answer 2

I think you can do this by setting store to default like
Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);
make sure you save the current store value and set it back after doing the above.
Or by using a script from outside magento and invoke mage by
require_once '../app/Mage.php';
$app = Mage::app();
Mage::register('isSecureArea', true);

Answer 3

$products = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($category_id)
->getProductCollection()
->addAttributeToSelect('*')
->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1)
->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', 4)
->setOrder('price', 'ASC');

Answer 4

I haven't found an answer as such to my question above. But I have saved a lot of time by using a different method.
I exported a CSV of all the products in my Magento, deleted all columns except Category ID and SKU (this is all I needed), and then filtered that to return all the skus instead.
If it helps anyone here is the code -
<?php
$file = fopen('allprods.csv', 'r');
// You can use an array to store your search ids, makes things more flexible.
// Supports any number of search ids.
$id = array($_GET['id']);
// Make the search ids safe to use in regex (escapes special characters)
$id = array_map('preg_quote', $id);
// The argument becomes '/id/i', which means 'id, case-insensitive'
$regex = '/'.implode('|', $id).'/i';
$skus = array();
while (($line = fgetcsv($file)) !== FALSE) {
list($ids, $sku) = $line;
if(preg_match($regex, $ids)) {
$skus[] = $sku;
}
}
$count = count($skus);
$i = 1;
echo $category_id;
foreach ($skus as $sku){
echo $sku;
if($i != $count) { echo "`"; }
$i++;
}
This solution was created by using a previous topic about filtering CSVs, here
So for now, I can survive. however - an answer to this question is still needed!

Answer 5

Nothing works if catalog_flat_product is on in backend configuration->catalog.
try this..this will give all the products enabled and disabled ultimately
$collection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_collection'); //this will give you all products
foreach($collection as $col)
{
$var = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->loadByAttribute('sku',$col->getSku());
echo"<pre>";print_r($var->getData());echo"</pre>";
}
its really simple and after this you can easily filter products by status