Ability to retrieve products under a brand or manufacturer in MAGENTO

$brandId = "1"; //manufacturer id or brand id
$products = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection();
$products->addAttributeToFilter('manufacturer', array('in' => array($brandId)));
$products->addAttributeToFilter('status', '1');
$products->addAttributeToSelect('*');
$products->load();

echo "";

foreach($products as $product)
echo $product->getId()."
";

Magento Vendor Notification

Hi,

This is one of the link which i came across in MAGENTO for vendor notification. This mighe be useful for somebody.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/1193/vendor-notifications

Ability to get all the manufacurers or brands in Magento

We can use the following code to get the list of manufacturers in MAGENTO.

$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');

//Retriving the attribute values for the manufacturer id
$attributes = Mage::getResourceModel('eav/entity_attribute_collection')
->setEntityTypeFilter($product->getResource()->getTypeId())
->addFieldToFilter('attribute_code', 'manufacturer') // This can be changed to any attribute code
->load(false);

$attribute = $attributes->getFirstItem()->setEntity($product->getResource());

//This is an array of manufacturers
$manufacturers = $attribute->getSource()->getAllOptions(false);