Comments on: How to add Magento blocks, CSS and Javascript to an external site

By: Mathew Beane

Mathew Beane — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:36:29 +0000

$magento_block = Mage::getSingleton(‘core/layout’);
$block = $magento_block->createBlock(‘checkout/onepage’);
$block->setTemplate(‘checkout/onepage.phtml’);
echo $block->toHTML();

This is what I have had the most success with, but it does not pull in the other pieces yet.

By: Mathew Beane

Mathew Beane — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:06:40 +0000

Yes, that brings in the base template(including the html header stuff that I dont want), without any of the bits and pieces. I supposed you have to go through and load each piece, and put it in the proper spot, but I was hoping there was an easier way.

By: Richard Feraro

Richard Feraro — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:59:46 +0000

What have you done so far? Did you try using this:
$checkout = Mage::getSingleton(‘checkout/type_onepage’);

By: Mathew Beane

Mathew Beane — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:21:39 +0000

Have you had any luck implementing a checkout page, in wordpress? I would like to have a simple checkout, it would only ever have one product in it.

I am able to pull in some of the one page checkout blocks, but i am wondering if there is an easier way to handle a checkout.

Thanks,
Mathew

By: Richard Feraro

Richard Feraro — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:01:23 +0000

I haven’t tried yet but it should be available upon setting of your store.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:59:03 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial, have you successfully incorporated Magento translations with these externally loaded Mage resources?

I can get the header and footer externalized just fine, but I cannot seem to get it to work.

Thanks in advance,

Justin

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:54:19 +0000

is it possible to add one product into a post

By: Nilesh Toshniwal

Nilesh Toshniwal — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:19:29 +0000

Hi Richard Thx for nice post, but I am kinda hanged up actually if I try the code given you it doesn't load the theme I am using on magento while it just loads default theme, actually I am looking to show magento's header and footer in joomla template but for the time I am just trying to get it done in custom php file the code of the file is: [php] require_once '../app/Mage.php'; umask(0); Mage::app(); if(class_exists('Mage')){ // Instantiate session and generate needed cookie Mage::getSingleton('core/session', array('name' => 'frontend')); $Block = Mage::getSingleton('core/layout'); // Start pulling the blocks $head = $Block->createBlock('Page/Html_Head'); // Add default css // Magento adds the default skin directory // 'skin/frontend/default/default' before 'css/styles.css' // making it look like the URL below: // http://localhost/magento/skin/frontend/default/default/css/styles.css $head->addCss('css/styles.css'); // Add Prototype JS file // Note that it automatically adds the 'js' directory at the beginning // making it look like the URL below: // http://localhost/magento/js/prototype/prototype.js $head->addJs('prototype/prototype.js'); // Get the header's HTML $header = $Block->createBlock('Page/Html_Header'); $header->setTemplate('page/html/header.phtml'); // And the footer's HTML as well $footer = $Block->createBlock('Page/Html_Footer'); $footer->setTemplate('page/html/footer.phtml'); } // Display the needed tags for CSS and JS echo (class_exists('Mage')) ? $head->getCssJsHtml() : '' ; // Display the Header HTML echo (class_exists('Mage')) ? $header->toHTML() : '' ; echo (class_exists('Mage')) ? $footer->toHTML() : '' ; [/php]

By: hamza khan

hamza khan — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:45:53 +0000

not able to see the toolbar i checked the option from admin but its not showing toolbar on frontend.
plz help.

By: Richard Feraro

Richard Feraro — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:15:46 +0000

Follow the code i posted to your comment where to place the code below:

if(class_exists('Mage')){
    Mage::getSingleton('core/session', array('name' => 'frontend'));
}

Don’t repeat that code anywhere else or you’ll get header been sent error.

Regarding your backend login error, check this post.

By: Richard Feraro

Richard Feraro — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:12:14 +0000

It happened because Mage object have not been instantiated. You should place the code below at the top of index.php file, just before the get_header() code: [php]if(class_exists('Mage')){ Mage::getSingleton('core/session', array('name' => 'frontend')); }[/php]