Search configurable product by a child SKU

[stefx]

Hi to all, I need to search for a configurable product by a child SKU (without make visible on search each simple product)... How it's possibile? Any idea?

Thanks a lot!

Stefano

[theMageComp]

@stefx

First of all, search the Child Products By Sku and from that list you find the configurable product of that child Product.

[KuafuSoft]

$products = Mage::getModel('catalog/products')
->getCollection()
->addAttributeToFilter('sku', YOUR_SIMPLE_SKU);

then join $products with catalog_product_link, catalog_product_link_type to find the parent products

[KuafuSoft]

if you are talking about the search box in front page, then you will have to rewrite fulltext indexer engine.