Dx3webs » missing http://dx3webs.com/front Magento: fast.. supported.. managed Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:28:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Change number of columns displayed in Magneto search results (modern theme) http://dx3webs.com/front/2010/10/change-number-of-columns-displayed-in-magneto-search-results-modern-theme/ http://dx3webs.com/front/2010/10/change-number-of-columns-displayed-in-magneto-search-results-modern-theme/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:00:14 +0000 admin http://dx3webs.com/front/?p=627


As a result of a bug in the modern theme (1.4.X) you may find that the number of columns being shown in your Quick Search and Advanced Search do not match with the layout specified in your Grid settings. Regardless of what your grid layout specifies you will get 3 columns. The modern theme is layout with the expectation of 4 columns and the results look poor to visitors.


To fix this edit catalogsearch.xml in the 2 locations where this occurs. Set setColumnCount to the number of columns you require. We left the original code in place should this start to work correctly at some point in the future.

FROM

<action method="addColumnCountLayoutDepend"><layout>empty</layout><count>6</count></action>
<action method="addColumnCountLayoutDepend"><layout>one_column</layout><count>5</count></action>
<action method="addColumnCountLayoutDepend"><layout>two_columns_left</layout><count>4</count></action>
<action method="addColumnCountLayoutDepend"><layout>two_columns_right</layout><count>4</count></action>
<action method="addColumnCountLayoutDepend"><layout>three_columns</layout><count>3</count></action>

TO


<!--action method="addColumnCountLayoutDepend"><layout>empty</layout><count>6</count></action>
<action method="addColumnCountLayoutDepend"><layout>one_column</layout><count>5</count></action>
<action method="addColumnCountLayoutDepend"><layout>two_columns_left</layout><count>4</count></action>
<action method="addColumnCountLayoutDepend"><layout>two_columns_right</layout><count>4</count></action>
<action method="addColumnCountLayoutDepend"><layout>three_columns</layout><count>3</count></action-->
<action method="setColumnCount"><count>4</count></action>

If you look in the catalog.xml, you will see this is how it was done in that file.

Update: missing pagination

You may also notice that the pagiation is also missing. For example, your search may return 400 items but you can only see page 1 of 40. To fix this edit catalogsearch.xml find:

<action method="setColumnCount"><count>4</count></action>

and place the following immediately ABOVE

<block type="catalog/product_list_toolbar" name="product_list_toolbar" template="catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml">
<block type="page/html_pager" name="product_list_toolbar_pager"/>
</block>
<action method="setToolbarBlockName"><name>product_list_toolbar</name></action>

Don’t forget empty your cache.

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If you find that when you look at your Magento powered e-commerce  site and all your layered navigation sub categories have vanished! Don’t panic.  

Simply log onto your back end System > cache management > Layered Navigation Indices > rebuild now.

hey presto all should be well again.

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