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I'm trying to load the simple products that have been added to a customer's cart, but when I retrieve the items, it's showing the parent configurable. $cart = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/cart'); $productIds = array(); foreach ($cart->getQuote()->getAllVisibleItems() as $item) { $productIds[] = $item->getProduct()->getId(); } var_dump($productIds); For instance, this will return all the same configurable id when I've added a small, medium, and large to my cart. How can I get the individual simple products? I'm trying to retrieve an attribute value that's set on the simple product level. After

I am trying to get the entire magento product collection, without any filters or restrictions, but I fail to get all products. I've tried various methods already, but they all give me a very limited selection of products. Let's say the store contains 5000 products, but it only shows 500. When I check the catalog -> products is does show me the entire list. Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection(); Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_collection')->addAttributeToSelect('*'); Mage::getModel("catalog/product")->getResourceCollection()->load(); All of them return the same amount (500)

In my company we develop a software product. Until now we haven't had any testers, so basically the developers were the testers, and of course the customer and users (not good). Our team now consists of 4 developers and we work mainly with Cruisecontrol, Flex, ASP.NET, IIS, MSSQLServer and WebORB. I am urging the managers to hire a tester but I wonder if testers are normal in software development. So: Are testers necessary in product (or large scale project) development? Should testers only do test work? Or can you expect from a developer or graphical designer to test half of the week? Where

I am working on a packaged product that is supposed to cater to multiple clients with varying requirements (to a certain degree) and as such should be built in a manner to be flexible enough to be customizable by each specific client. The kind of customization we are talking about here is that different client's may have differing attributes for some of the key business objects. Also, they could have differing business logic tied in with their additional attributes as well As an very simplistic example: Consider "Automobile" to be a business entity in the system and as such has 4 key

On magento 1.7 I created a promotional price rule of 20% discount for "special members" customer group. I'd like to display both prices. I thought there would be something like $_product->getPriceByCustomerGroup( $groupId ); Goal (not logged in): Regular price: $10.99 Member price: $5.99 (member logged in): Regular price: $10.99 Member price: $5.99 Ok, bit of a muck around, but I think I have it. You can grab the price for the specific group id (3 in the case below) by calling setCustomerGroupId for the product. The only caveat is that once you call the setCustomerGroupId function you cannot