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Magento addAttributeToFilter() and addAttributeToSelect()

These two Magento functions looks more like there is no obvious difference between them, but there is.

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addAttributeToFilter('some_attribute1','attribute_value')

filters a Magento entity collection (e.g Products, categories) by only selecting entities that has ‘some_attribute’ equal to ‘attribute_value’ while

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addAttributeToSelect('some_attribute2')

tells Magento to return add ‘some_attributes’ to the set of properties that would be returned for a collection of entities.

A combination of these two functions could be likened to sql

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SELECT 'some_attribute2' FROM Table WHERE 'some_attribute1'='attribute_value'

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