How to get product collection of given main category id?

Question

In my website I have several stores available. One particular store contains both the simple and configurable products. This is a huge collection of products. What is the fastest way to get all enabled products (including child products of configurable products) collection of this store by store id?

Note: I tried this lot of different ways. But it takes loo much time. Sometimes cause to crash the server even.

Note : I'm using Magento CE 1.3

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Answer 1

$collection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection();
$collection->addAttributeToSelect(array('name', 'url_key','price','lowest_price','service_id','description','short_description'));

$collection->addStoreFilter();

instead of use addAttributeToSelect('*') use only specific attributes which you needed because it effect performance of site

hope this will help you