Working with Magento collections

If you look back at the previous code example, you will notice that I'm not only instantiating a product model, but I'm also calling the getCollection() method. The getCollection() method is part of the Mage_Core_Model_Abstract class, meaning, every single model inside Magento can call this method.

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All collections inherit from Varien_Data_Collection.

A Magento collection is basically a model that contains other models. So instead of using an array to hold a collection of products, we will use a product collection. Collections not only provide a convenient data structure to group models, they also provide special methods that we can use to manipulate and work with a collection of entities.

Some of the most useful collection methods are:

addAttributeToSelect: To add an attribute to the entities in a collection; * can be used as a wildcard to add all the available attributes
addFieldToFilter: To add an attribute filter to a collection; this function...

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