Question

Need to be able to pull Magento products into an external template. Need to be able to get all products data (description, title, attributes, categories, image, etc).

And need to be able to filter by category, attribute and also search on name.

These calls will be made from the same server that the Magento install is on. What’s the best way to do this?

Will be using php on both linux & windows (2 separate sites).

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Have tried using the Magento API & Soap to access from php but haven’t been able to get that to work yet. All I get is this error every time.

Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [WSDL] SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn’t load from ‘http://mymagento.com/cart/index.php/api/?wsdl‘ : Extra content at the end of the document in…..

Answer 1

Here’s the basic code we used to get the products. Meshed the code from Laizer’s answer with some examples we found on message boards. Worked very well for us.

Note we are filtering by Category ID 11 in the example below.

require_once("app/Mage.php");
Mage::app();


$category = new Mage_Catalog_Model_Category();
$category->getAllChildren(11);

$products = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection();
        $products->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1);//enabled
        $products->addCategoryFilter($category);
        $products->addAttributeToSelect('*');
        $prodIds=$products->getAllIds();


        $product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
        $count=1;
        foreach($prodIds as $productId)
        {


            echo "$count <br>";
            $product->load($productId);

            $product_data = array();
            $product_data['sku']=$product->getSku();
            $product_data['title']=$product->getName();
            $product_data['description']=$product->getDescription();
            $product_data['link']=$product->getProductUrl();
            $product_data['image_link']=Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_MEDIA).'catalog/product'.$product->getImage();
            $product_data['price']=$product->getPrice();
            $product_data['brand']=$product->getResource()->getAttribute('manufacturer')->getFrontend()->getValue($product);
            $product_data['product_type']='';

            //get the product categories
                    foreach($product->getCategoryIds() as $_categoryId){
            $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($_categoryId);
            $product_data['product_type'].=$category->getName().', ';
            }
            $product_data['product_type']=rtrim($product_data['product_type'],', ');





echo "<pre>";
            var_dump($product_data);

            //echo 'Loop end: '.memory_get_usage(false).'<br>';
            //flush();
            $count++;
        }