How to Add Products Stored in a different table in Magento DB to Magento Cart?

Question

Can someone provide some guidance as how we can add products stored in a different Magento DB Table (as opposed to the table in which generally store products) to Magento Cart so that we can utilize the Magento Payment flow?

here is the problem:

A developer I have hired is trying to integrate a feed from a digital distributor to a Magento instance. He is saving the product info in a table in DB other than the table where Magento usually stores the products. Actually digital products are stored at suppliers servers.

The flow of the product purchase is the following: • For Each Sale

1. sell the product
2. present receipt page
3. accept download hit

4. perform 'mkfu' hit

   • The important part is that when your customer follows such a link then a function on examville.com should look up the SECURITY_REFERENCE for the digital good (eg MTE0NjUwNzU4239xNi43NDcyOTk) and then perform a hit on the warehouse server

5. process the result

6. redirect buyer to 'fu' (fulfillment URL)

Answer 1

You need to hire right developers ;) There are no way to add such products to cart. You need to transform them to Magento products.