I have the following code to grab a list of Products
$collection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection();
$collection->addAttributeToSelect('name')
->addAttributeToFilter("category_ids", array('finset'=>$this->category_id));
foreach($collection as $product) {
echo $product->getName();
}
My question is, how can I NOT echo products that are 'simple' but belong to a parent 'configurable' product. (for example don't show "Red Shirt Medium" as it belongs to "Red Shirt")
I have worked out that this association lives in 'catalog_product_super_link' but I have only just started with Magento and unfortuantely don't know how to do the filtering :)
Cheers guys,
Chris.
I don't know a direct way to add this condition to the collection, I'd be interested in such a solution too. But you can always check inside the loop for each product:
if (empty(Mage::getModel('catalog/product_type_configurable')->getParentIdsByChild($product->getId())))
{
echo $product->getName();
}
I've done something similar for our google feed. This excerpt of code is what I use to check the products inheritance:
$products = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection();
$products->addAttributeToSelect('*');
$products->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1);//enabled
$products->addAttributeToFilter('price', array('gt' => 0) );//price not 0
//$products->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', 4); //catalog, search - comment out to show all items (configurable products simple product breakdowns)
Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_status')->addVisibleFilterToCollection($products);
$prodIds=$products->getAllIds();
try {
foreach($prodIds as $productId) {
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
$product->load($productId);
// SIMPLE PRODUCTS
if($product->getTypeId() == 'simple' ) {
$prodName = trim($product->getName());
$parentIds = Mage::getModel('catalog/product_type_grouped')->getParentIdsByChild($productId);
if(!$parentIds)
$parentIds = Mage::getModel('catalog/product_type_configurable')->getParentIdsByChild($productId);
if($parentIds) {
$parentProd = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($parentIds[0]);
/*
* do something if this product has a parent or do some checks against $parentProd
*/
} // end parent check
}//if SIMPLE
} // foreach
} catch(Exception $e) {
die($e->getMessage());
}