Question

I am building a site that needs to display some product info from a Magento Database, but display it on another page/site outside the Magento intallation. I know the information gets displayed twice, but I would like the site to avoid content duplication and pull that same info from an only source, the Magento product database.

Is this posible? Has anyone done it?

Answer 1

What would be a lot easier to do would be to pull in the entire Magento engine into your external page. This [unlike the rest of Magento] is pretty easy to do.

All you have to do is the following:

// Load Up Magento Core
define(‘MAGENTO’, realpath(‘/var/www/magento/’));

require_once(MAGENTO . ‘/app/Mage.php’);

$app = Mage::app();

Now you can use any of the Magento objects/classes as if you were inside of Magento and get your attributes

$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load(1234);
$product->getSku();
$product->getYourCustomAttribute();

etc etc.