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Moe Sweet
Moe Sweet

Reputation: 3721

Magento: How to sort products newest first "disregarding category"?

I've tried this and it partially works

http://www.dconstructing.com/2011/04/07/sort-magento-catalog-by-date-added/

But on a page that has multiple categories, it sorts categories as first level, and only then it sorts products within each category.

So an earlier product in a category comes before a later product in another category. I don't want that. I want a flat sorting that only sorts by "position" (magento term) regardless of the category.

How can I achieve that?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7546

Answers (3)

user2753425
user2753425

Reputation: 301

Step 1: To Achieve this copy the file Toolbar.php from app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/List/Toolbar.php. Create a Directory Structure in local and paste the Toolbar.php as shown below app/code/local/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/List/Toolbar.php

Step 2: Around line 232 you should see the below code in setCollection() function

if ($this->getCurrentOrder()) {
  $this->_collection->setOrder($this->getCurrentOrder(), $this->getCurrentDirection());
}

Replace the above code with the new code given below

if ($this->getCurrentOrder()) {
  if(($this->getCurrentOrder())=='position'){
      $this->_collection->setOrder('entity_id','desc');
  }
  else {
   $this->_collection->setOrder($this->getCurrentOrder(),$this->getCurrentDirection());
  }
}

Upvotes: 0

Phuc
Phuc

Reputation: 155

This instruction work for me with the same problem product sorting. I used the third one Magento Sort by Newest Products Solution

Upvotes: 1

pspahn
pspahn

Reputation: 2790

Alternatively to Guerra's answer, while inside toolbar.phtml you can use:

<?php if($this->getCurrentDirection() == 'desc') : ?>
    <?php $this->addOrderToAvailableOrders('created_at','Newest') ?>
<?php else : ?>
    <?php $this->addOrderToAvailableOrders('created_at','Oldest') ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Upvotes: 0

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