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I’ve noticed that there are some functions to get the associated product from a grouped product.
Is the opposite also true?
I.e. from an associated product, how can one get the info from the grouped product?

I’d imagine that it could be true, just maybe not out-of-the-box. If I get a chance I’ll see what it’ll take tomorrow.

Dan

Well, I found on various occasions a reference to getSuperProduct.

It is used mostly in Model-code.

Does anyone know how me might use it in the design code?
Till know, code like $_product->getSuperProduct() produces no result.

Thanks,

Charles

I’m getting pretty desperate by now.

What I’ve come up so far:

- there is a table that links products together (catalog_product_link). So yes, there should be a way to get the info from an associated product to its grouped product
- there is a function “getSuperProduct” that seems to be able to get called from a couple Model files
- when I perform a print_r from an associated product, there is no info whatsoever that refers to the ‘superproduct’ -> how does getSuperProduct work?

However, I don’t seem to be able to connect all the dots.

What I need to do is call a getDescription from the superproduct.

Eg. In Catalog/Product/View.phtml I’d like to have something like

Does anyone have any clue on how to continue on that road?

Thanks

I think I made some great progress on that one.

To get a product’s parent you do the following:

But, I’m not out of the woods yet.
Because it seems that the data loaded comes from the default store.

Now what I’d like to know is how to load the data from the active store, not the default store.

Can anyone help me with that?

Or, please excuse me for being so blant, is this whole forum absolutely useless?

Well, I did it.

The

Mage::(app)

functions do the trick

You’re all very welcome !

Charles,
Thanks for the update - much appreciated.
Eddie