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POIn Magento, is it possible to populate your product models from an external API instead of the Magento DB?
 

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    <p>I currently have Magento 1.7 CE installed. I want to use the Magento Product Models, except I want to get the price for the product from an external API (our pricing exists outside of Magento).</p> <p>I know what I could use the Magento API to import all the prices from our existing database, but our pricing changes very often, and we would then need to maintain two databases.</p> <p>Basically I'm wondering if there is something in Magento I can overwrite to call our API instead of the DB? </p> <p>I know how to overwrite the Magento core (creating your own modules and setting up your config.xml with the proper rewrite tag). I can get this to work by overwriting the Product->getPrice method with a call to our API, but then the API is called everytime Product->getPrice is called. I would rather inject a call to our API at the time of the object creation (when it calls the database and puts the data into the object), but I'm not familiar enough with magento to know where this happens, or if this is even possible.</p>
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    1. COthe only answer we can give you right now is: "yes". if you want more help you need to try by yourself and come back here if you have specific problems
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    2. COI edited my question to make it a little more clear what I have tried already and what exactly I would like to do.
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