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How to embed a block from magento shop on another website

maciek79 Total Posts: 15 Joined: 2007-11-20 Ignore user	Hello, I have Magento shop installed at e.g mywebsite.com/shop On main page of mywebiste.com (which is powered by Wordpress) I would like to embed a block with few products from certain category. How could I achieve it programatically? Regards, Maciek
	Posted: February 27 2008 \| top

kohril Total Posts: 44 Joined: 2007-12-23 Lille, northernFrance Ignore user	Basically, I have two ideas, but maybe it is not the best way of doing, moreover I have never used wordpress. - develop a module on your website, reading in Magento’s database - develop a Magento’s module that returns products informations in an plugable way : an RSS feed for example. So, you may design an interface to configure that feed’s products. Then, include a (custom?) feed-burner widget in your wordpress. Signature Fragento : communauté Magento francophone - http://www.fragento.org !
	Posted: February 27 2008 \| top \| # 1

maciek79 Total Posts: 15 Joined: 2007-11-20 Ignore user	Well, I would like to know what to do (in php) in order to access magento’s core and fetch products as php arrays or php objects - avoiding direct reading from database. Wordpress - I mentioned it just for illustration - It can be blank php page - what’s important: it must be outside of main magento path. Regards, Maciek
	Posted: February 27 2008 \| top \| # 2

harry12bar Total Posts: 168 Joined: 2008-01-07 Ignore user	The easiest Basic way would be RSS… When Magento releases Ver 1 I expect it to be there.. I reckon this would be a start .
	Posted: February 27 2008 \| top \| # 3

zburnham Total Posts: 69 Joined: 2007-11-07 Westborough, MA Ignore user	maciek79 - 27 February 2008 05:39 AM Well, I would like to know what to do (in php) in order to access magento’s core and fetch products as php arrays or php objects - avoiding direct reading from database. Wordpress - I mentioned it just for illustration - It can be blank php page - what’s important: it must be outside of main magento path. Regards, Maciek How do you make those arrays/objects available to the PHP process on the other webserver? There has to be a translation layer somewhere.
	Posted: February 27 2008 \| top \| # 4

Mark_Kimsal Total Posts: 186 Joined: 2007-09-12 Michigan, USA Ignore user	maciek79 - 27 February 2008 04:52 AM Hello, I have Magento shop installed at e.g mywebsite.com/shop On main page of mywebiste.com (which is powered by Wordpress) I would like to embed a block with few products from certain category. How could I achieve it programatically? Regards, Maciek As with all data transfer problems you have 2 options, push or pull. Push would involve making changes to magento, as your update your static blocks or categories, you would write out a chunk of static HTML to a spot on the drive. The WP page can simply include this file, or transfer it across servers and include a local copy (if the WP and Mage are on different servers). A Pull solution is probably more what you were thinking. It would involve making a new module that would only create a catalog/category_list type block and transfer the data to your WP server. With this type of solution you can give out all different kinds of data. You can spit out complete HTML, as in the push solution, you can give an RSS stream and use php in WP to arrange it into HTML, you can give SOAP, or generic XML, JSON, WDDX, or whatever serialization you want. I can pretty much guarantee you that any pull solution will not scale and you will see it as being slow after a while. A pull with a significant cache timeout would probably be the best of both worlds since it wouldn’t involve hooking into admin events to watch for changes to categories or static blocks.
	Posted: February 27 2008 \| top \| # 5

Mark_Kimsal Total Posts: 186 Joined: 2007-09-12 Michigan, USA Ignore user	Here is a technical follow up to my explanation. Create a new CMS page called “WP export” and do not link to it anywhere. inside this page, put this in the content `{{block type="catalog/product_list" template="mystuff/wp_export/product_list.phtml" category_id="3"}}` Replace the category_id="3" with your category ID of the products that you want to spit across. Create this file and/or directories. `app/design/frontend/[yourtheme]/default/template/mystuff/wp_export/product_list.phtml` Inside this product_list.phtml file, you can add whatever code you want to format your products as HTML. Start with this code: `<?php $prods = $this->getLoadedProductCollection(); foreach ($prods as $_prod):?> <h3><?= $_prod->getName();?></h3> <div> <?=$this->helper('review/product')->getSummaryHtml($_product);?> </div> <? endforeach;?>` On the WP-side, you can get this HTML with a network include or fsockopen like this: `include("http://mymagentoinstall/cms/wp_export.html");` That is just a guess as to which URL the CMS page would have from the first step. You can also create your own file and activate this block in a shell magento script. This solution is too complicated to detail here, but this can get you started. `$app = Mage::app('base'); $app->getLayout()->setLayout("frontend"); $block = $app->getLayout()->createBlock("catalog/product_list", "wp_export", array('category_id'=>3)); $app->getLayout()->addBlock($block, "wp_export"); $app->getLayout()->addOutputBlock("wp_export"); echo $app->getLayout()->getOutput();`
	Posted: February 27 2008 \| top \| # 6

maciek79 Total Posts: 15 Joined: 2007-11-20 Ignore user	Hi Mark! Thanks for a tip. I created new page and used iframe on second page. You can also create your own file and activate this block in a shell magento script. This solution is too complicated to detail here, but this can get you started. ... Hmm. I created test.php outside of magento path: `require_once '[......]/app/Mage.php'; $app = Mage::app('base'); $app->getLayout()->setLayout("frontend"); $block = $app->getLayout()->createBlock("catalog/product_list", "featured", array('category_id'=>3)); $app->getLayout()->addBlock($block, "featured"); $app->getLayout()->addOutputBlock("featured"); echo $app->getLayout()->getOutput();` and I get following error: Call to undefined method Mage_Core_Model_App::getLayout() on line 4 So, how to get Mage object working in external script? Regards, Maciek
	Posted: February 28 2008 \| top \| # 7

Hadifarnoud Total Posts: 178 Joined: 2007-10-07 Guildford, Surrey, UK Ignore user	use Ajax for parsing a page and cut the exact block you want note: you can’t use php instead because of Zend Autodetection of locale. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <link media="all" type="text/css" href="http://www.zigorat.com/skin/frontend/default/custom_theme/css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet"/> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script> <script> $(document).ready(function(){ $("#docs").load("/catalog/category/view/limit/all/s/notebook/id/4/ #product-list-table"); }); $("#loading").ajaxStart(function(){ $(this).show(); }); $("#loading").ajaxStop(function(){ $(this).hide(); }); </script> <body> <div id="loading" class="loading">loading...</div> <div id="docs"></div> </body> </html> #product-list-table is id of ur block and #docs means you want whole block Signature VIP Managed Hosting & Magento Development \| Acamedium Ltd.
	Posted: February 28 2008 \| top \| # 8

Moshe Total Posts: 1770 Joined: 2007-08-07 Los Angeles Ignore user	@maciek79: try this: `require_once '[......]/app/Mage.php'; Mage::app('base'); $block = Mage::getSingleton('core/layout') ->createBlock("catalog/product_list", "featured", array('category_id'=>3)) ->setTemplate("mystuff/wp_export/product_list.phtml"); echo $block->toHtml();` Signature - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code -
	Posted: February 28 2008 \| top \| # 9

maciek79 Total Posts: 15 Joined: 2007-11-20 Ignore user	@Moshe: After createBlock I get: “Can’t retrieve request object” error.
	Posted: February 28 2008 \| top \| # 10

iguru Total Posts: 330 Joined: 2007-11-02 Děčín, Czech Republic Ignore user	Hm, i have pok.php width this code: `<?php require_once 'app/Mage.php'; Mage::app('base'); $block = Mage::getSingleton('core/layout') ->createBlock("catalog/product_list", "wp_export", array('category_id'=>3)) ->setTemplate("mystuff/wp_export/product_list.phtml"); echo $block->toHtml(); ?>` and i got this bug: Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘Can’t retrieve request object’ in /home/mimo/Documents/www/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php:126 Stack trace: #0 /home/mimo/Documents/www/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php(47): Mage_Core_Block_Abstract->__construct(Array) #1 /home/mimo/Documents/www/app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/List.php(33): Mage_Core_Block_Template->__construct() #2 /home/mimo/Documents/www/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Layout.php(345): Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List->__construct() #3 /home/mimo/Documents/www/pok.php(7): Mage_Core_Model_Layout->createBlock(’catalog/product...’, ‘wp_export’, Array) #4 {main} thrown in /home/mimo/Documents/www/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php on line 126 Signature Dnešek je vítězstvím sebe sama nad včerejškem. MM. イグル
	Posted: February 29 2008 \| top \| # 11

Moshe Total Posts: 1770 Joined: 2007-08-07 Los Angeles Ignore user	That’s a bug, please edit Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php on approx line 126 and replace `if (Mage::registry('controller')) { $this->_request = Mage::registry('controller')->getRequest();` with: `$controller = Mage::app()->getFrontController(); if ($controller) { $this->_request = $controller->getRequest();` PLEASE NOTE THE UPDATE Signature - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code -
	Posted: February 29 2008 \| top \| # 12

maciek79 Total Posts: 15 Joined: 2007-11-20 Ignore user	@Moshe: Thank you for great support. It works!
	Posted: February 29 2008 \| top \| # 13

iguru Total Posts: 330 Joined: 2007-11-02 Děčín, Czech Republic Ignore user	hm hm, it’s better. I have a name of product. But: Book 2008 (SP 60) Notice: Undefined variable: _product in /home/mimo/Documents/www/app/design/frontend/default/default/template/mystuff/wp_export/product_list.phtml on line 7 [0] in include("/home/mimo/Documents/www/app/design/frontend/default/default/template/mystuff/wp_export/product_list") in /home/mimo/Documents/www/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php on line 112 [1] in Mage_Core_Block_Template->fetchView("frontend/default/default/template/mystuff/wp_export/product_list.phtml") in /home/mimo/Documents/www/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php on line 144 [2] in Mage_Core_Block_Template->renderView() in /home/mimo/Documents/www/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php on line 183 [3] in Mage_Core_Block_Template->_toHtml() in /home/mimo/Documents/www/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php on line 552 [4] in Mage_Core_Block_Abstract->toHtml() in /home/mimo/Documents/www/pok.php on line 9 Fatal error: Call to a member function getRatingSummary() on a non-object in /home/mimo/Documents/www/app/code/core/Mage/Review/Helper/Product.php on line 35 The Book is a simply product without special attributes (Default product). Signature Dnešek je vítězstvím sebe sama nad včerejškem. MM. イグル
	Posted: February 29 2008 \| top \| # 14

iguru Total Posts: 330 Joined: 2007-11-02 Děčín, Czech Republic Ignore user	Sorry, is my bug. When i change code from Mark_Kimsal `<?php $prods = $this->getLoadedProductCollection(); foreach ($prods as $_prod):?> <h3><?= $_prod->getName();?></h3> <div> <?=$this->helper('review/product')->getSummaryHtml($_product);?> </div> <? endforeach;?>` to `<?php $prods = $this->getLoadedProductCollection(); foreach ($prods as $_prod):?> <h3><?= $_prod->getName();?></h3> <div> <?=$this->helper('review/product')->getSummaryHtml($_prod);?> </div> <? endforeach;?>` it’s work perfect. Sorry for my inattention. Signature Dnešek je vítězstvím sebe sama nad včerejškem. MM. イグル
	Posted: February 29 2008 \| top \| # 15

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