Magento BestSeller Module - Summing Configurable Products And Adding Them Back In

Question

This has been bugging me for quite a while. Basically, what we are trying to achieve is in the bestsellers on our front page, to have the products listed in the amount sold. For

Answer 1

You can use the following piece of code to get the simple products attached to the configurable product. I'm not sure if this is 100% correct, I haven't tried it myself.

$simpleProducts = Mage::getModel('catalog/product_type_configurable')->getUsedProducts(null, $product);