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copied!<p>I have a Magento installation which is integrated with an external website, and I want the Magento's shopping cart block to be displayed on the header of this external site.</p> <p>I have achieved this with the following code:</p> <pre class="lang-php prettyprint-override"><code><?php require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/store/app/Mage.php'); $app = Mage::app(); $session = Mage::getSingleton('core/session', array('name'=>'frontend')); $block = $app ->getLayout() ->getBlockSingleton('checkout/cart_sidebar') ->setTemplate('checkout/cart/sidebar.phtml'); echo $block->toHtml(); </code></pre> <p>But, I want (and believe that it's possible) a nicer approach.</p> <p>I dislike the fact that I must specify the template manually via <code>setTemplate()</code>, which involves hard-coding template locations and repeating something that it's defined somewhere else (in the design's layout xml files). I tried loading the block via <code>$app->getLayout()->getBlock($name)</code> with no results (were <code>$name</code> represents the block's reference name, as defined in the layout xml files).</p> <p><strong>So the question is:</strong></p> <p>Is there any way to render a block outside magento (with the following requisites)?</p> <ul> <li>I want the base layout xml and the store's design layout updates of the design changes to be loaded automatically, so i don't need to specify the template path and the block type (again) manually.</li> <li>I want to load the block by it's reference name, so I can make use of the properties applied to it on the layout xml files.</li> </ul> <p>The purpose of this question is to wrap it in a function, and render every block outside Magento the same way it's done on the Magento templates. For example:</p> <pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><div id="sidebar-cart-container"> <?php echo $this->renderMagentoBlock('cart-block-reference-id'); ?> </div> </code></pre> <p>Thanks in advance.</p>

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