There are no better shortcuts than a very good study but there's a tip which can help you to get a bit of speed. Have you ever tried to figure out what available methods you can use from a customer model in Magento? Imagine you load the customer into a variable (or the product, order)
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# load the customer $customer = Mage::getModel('customer/customer')->load($params['id']); |
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