For my category view. I have a select drop down which uses ajax to set a session with the option value.
I have overridden Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List.
This session value processed from ajax is called in the 'protected function _getProductCollection()' override to filter the product collection as needed.
My first problem is that I would like to filter by an attribute, based on three values on these attributes:
$collection = parent::_getProductCollection();
$collection ->addAttributeToFilter('name', array('in' => array('Cat','Adam', 'Paul')));
$collection->addAttributeToSort('name = Cat', 'DESC');
$collection->addAttributeToSort('name = Adam', 'DESC');
$collection->addAttributeToSort('name = Paul', 'DESC');
return $this->_productCollection;
The problem is that I want to position these as needed. For example I need Cat first then Adam then Paul. Is there any way to position these?
The second issue is that I need position an 'sort by' option. 'asc' is the default, however what I need it for descending to be default.
So far I have overridden 'Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List_Toolbar' and used this code:
protected $_direction = 'desc';
This however is not changing the direction.
Will the sort by take precedence over the custom product collection I have created?
LOG
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