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I have a helper with this method to get the items in a customer's cart

public function getCartData() { //Get cart DATA $quote = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->getQuote(); $cartItems = $quote->getAllVisibleItems(); $items = ''; foreach ($cartItems as $item) { $items .= $item->getId() . " "; } return $items; }

But what I want to do is replace this line

$items .= $item->getId() . " ";

With an instance of template/checkout/cart/sidebar/default.phtml

How would I go about this? The method is being called in an ajax controller. I want to update the user's cart without a page refresh, but it needs to be formatted.

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You can create blocks on the fly and fetch the HTML

Simple example:

 $tempBlock = Mage::app()->getLayout()->createBlock('core/template') ->setTemplate('template/checkout/cart/sidebar/default.phtml'); $items .= $tempBlock->toHtml();

This is not complete as it misses the item information and I just used the core/template which is not the usual on for this template.

But I hope you get the idea?

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