Magento Using Observer To Split Collection Unless Better Method

salon_sue

I am almost done building an Amazon Affiliate extension. In my catalog, the amazon products use the attribute set named AmazonAffiliate, all of the other normal products in the catalog just use whatever set happens to be assigned to them. People can add both regular products to the cart as well as amazon products to the cart. The separation of the regular products vs. amazon products comes in the cart screen. What I want on the cart page is 2...

Originally asked by Shawn Abramson on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

To be able to get value from your collection (CommerceExtensions_AmazonAffiliate_Model_Mysql4_Quote_Collection), you have to use your own template and block. Make own template on checkout, may be commerceextension/checkout.phtml. And Do like $this->amazonItemCollection() You can pass variable to that template from your block (CommerceExtensions_AmazonAffiliate_Block_Checkout_Cart). Write function - get amazonItemCollection(). Within this function you should be able to instantiate your collection Add following xml in layout/checkout.xml file which connect your block and template I have not tested this code. However it should work with few trial/error.

Full answer by Krishna Sunuwar: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/21949146 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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