[php] Magento - Retrieve products with a specific attribute value

To Get TEXT attributes added from admin to front end on product listing page.

Thanks Anita Mourya

I have found there is two methods. Let say product attribute called "na_author" is added from backend as text field.

METHOD 1

on list.phtml

<?php $i=0; foreach ($_productCollection as $_product): ?>

FOR EACH PRODUCT LOAD BY SKU AND GET ATTRIBUTE INSIDE FOREACH

<?php
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->loadByAttribute('sku',$_product->getSku());
$author = $product['na_author'];
?>

<?php
if($author!=""){echo "<br /><span class='home_book_author'>By ".$author ."</span>";} else{echo "";}
?>

METHOD 2

Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/List.phtml OVER RIDE and set in 'local folder'

i.e. Copy From

Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/List.phtml

and PASTE TO

app/code/local/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/List.phtml

change the function by adding 2 lines shown in bold below.

protected function _getProductCollection()
{
       if (is_null($this->_productCollection)) {
           $layer = Mage::getSingleton('catalog/layer');
           /* @var $layer Mage_Catalog_Model_Layer */
           if ($this->getShowRootCategory()) {
               $this->setCategoryId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getRootCategoryId());
           }

           // if this is a product view page
           if (Mage::registry('product')) {
               // get collection of categories this product is associated with
               $categories = Mage::registry('product')->getCategoryCollection()
                   ->setPage(1, 1)
                   ->load();
               // if the product is associated with any category
               if ($categories->count()) {
                   // show products from this category
                   $this->setCategoryId(current($categories->getIterator()));
               }
           }

           $origCategory = null;
           if ($this->getCategoryId()) {
               $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($this->getCategoryId());

               if ($category->getId()) {
                   $origCategory = $layer->getCurrentCategory();
                   $layer->setCurrentCategory($category);
               }
           }
           $this->_productCollection = $layer->getProductCollection();

           $this->prepareSortableFieldsByCategory($layer->getCurrentCategory());

           if ($origCategory) {
               $layer->setCurrentCategory($origCategory);
           }
       }
       **//CMI-PK added na_author to filter on product listing page//
       $this->_productCollection->addAttributeToSelect('na_author');**
       return $this->_productCollection;

}

and you will be happy to see it....!!