Is there anyway to change all images of products in a single category ?
I have a category with products that have no images, about 175 of them, and I wish to use the same image for all of them.
Is this possible without going in manually and doing this ?
Thanks !
Unfortunately, Magento's admin interface is not very advanced, and does not provide any automated way of assigning the same image to multiple products (other than going into each product one by one, of course).
The most straight forward way to solve this is through a small script:
$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load(123);
$products = $category->getProductCollection();
foreach ($products as $product)
{
$product->addImageToMediaGallery(
Mage::getBaseDir() . DS . 'images' . DS . 'image.jpg',
/* attribute */ 'image',
/* move */ false,
/* exclude */ false
);
}
Code is untested, but that's the general idea - grab the list of products, go through each one, and use addImageToMediaGallery() to add the image to the product.
This type of script can be easily implemented as a shell script (see scripts in the shell directory).
Related
I'm trying to programmatically manipulate the product relations in a Magento store.
From what I've read, setRelatedLinkData should be the way to go.
As I simple test, I'm just trying to replace a products related products with nothing (i.e. an empty array), however it's not working - the product in question is still showing the related product in the backend.
The test code I'm working with is:
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($product->getId());
$linkData = array();
print_r($linkData);
$product->setRelatedLinkData($linkData);
echo "Save\n";
$r = $product->save();
As mentioned above however the product still has a related product when I reload it in the backend.
NOTE: I don't only want to remove related products, eventually I want to be able to add new ones as well, so a DELTE FROM... SQL query isn't what I am looking for. However if I can't get it to work to remove products, then it's certainly not going to work to add them, so one step at a time :-)
The quickest way I can think of is to use the Link Resource:
app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Resource/Product/Link.php saveProductLinks
// sample code
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load(147);
$linkData = array();
Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_link')->saveProductLinks(
$product, $linkData, Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Link::LINK_TYPE_RELATED
);
and if you want to assign products use the same code but provide this as $linkData:
$linkData = array(
'145' => array('position' => 1),
'146' => array('position' => 2)
);
I am importing data from oscommerce to magento for one of my clients.
All data including products, categories, and customers has been imported successfully. The last thing left is adding a product sort number after setting their categories.
I need following steps:
Import products -> assign categories to product -> set product sort order (display order) from the oscommerce table.
I searched a lot, but I was not able to find the method to set a product's sort order in a particular category.
Any help will be deeply appreciated.
Product's sort order in a category is by default determined by the position column in 'Category Products' tab in Manage Categories section.
I guess you need to bulk update the sort orders of the products per category. Assuming that you may need to write a php script, that can update the 'position' column in table 'catalog_category_product' in database using sql queries.
File can be kept at the root directory in your magento installation. Below code is just to give an idea, you need to modify/add/remove code in order to complete it as per your requirement and then hit the file from your browser.
<?php
$mageFilename = 'app/Mage.php';
require_once $mageFilename;
Mage::setIsDeveloperMode(true);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
umask(0);
Mage::app('admin');
Mage::register('isSecureArea', 1);
Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);
set_time_limit(0);
ini_set('memory_limit','1024M');
/***************** UTILITY FUNCTIONS ********************/
function _getConnection($type = 'core_read'){
return Mage::getSingleton('core/resource')->getConnection($type);
}
function _getTableName($tableName){
return Mage::getSingleton('core/resource')->getTableName($tableName);
}
function _updatePosition($position, $categoryId, $productId){
$connection = _getConnection('core_write');
$sql = "UPDATE " . _getTableName('catalog_category_product') . " ccp
SET ccp.position = ?
WHERE ccp.category_id = ?
AND ccp.product_id = ?";
$connection->query($sql, array($position, $categoryId, $productId));
}
hope this help !
I get a list of magento ids from a web service. I load these into and array $product_ids, so I have something like this:
Array
(
[0] => 1965
[1] => 3371
[2] => 1052
)
I can then make this into a collection:
$collection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()
->addIdFilter($product_ids);
Using my Magento inspector, I've seen that the category pages use the class Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List to display lists of products. I'd like to do something similar in my class. I've tried loading:
$ProductList = new Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List();
$ProductList->setCollection($collection);
And then I've tried to load the HTML of the results as follows:
$CollectionHTML = $ProductList->_toHtml();
But $CollectionHTML is empty.
How would I get the HTML of what you see in the list view (i.e. the generated output of frontend/base/default/template/catalog/product/list.phtml, but given my collection)?
Making the code work the right way is much more easier in Magento than trying to work with ugly legacy code. I would gladly help you make the code the proper way when you have specific questions. Also, in the longterm, technical debt is gonna cost alot more.
Anyway, back to your issue.
In Magento block are not instantiated like in any app $myvar = new className ... almost never. This tutorial can help you understand better Magento's layout and blocks.
But if you want to create a block a way to do it is:
$block = Mage::getSingleton('core/layout')->createBlock('catalog/product_list')
Now related to your product collection you should check how Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List::_getProductCollection actually works, because it uses the layered navigation, not a simple product collection.
Further, assuming that at least you are using a Magento controller and you are within a function, the following code will display the first page of products for a specified category:
//$category_id needs to be set
$layout = Mage::getSingleton('core/layout');
$toolbar = $layout->createBlock('catalog/product_list_toolbar');
$block = $layout->createBlock('catalog/product_list');
$block->setChild('toolbar', $toolbar);
$block->setCategoryId($category_id);
$block->setTemplate('catalog/product/list.phtml');
$collection = $block->getLoadedProductCollection();
$toolbar->setCollection($collection);
//render block object
echo $block->renderView();
Displaying specific ids:
you use root category id for $category_id variable (also make sure that display root category is set (or another category id that contains your product ids)
you can hook into catalog_block_product_list_collection event to add your ID Filter to the collection (this is called in _beforeToHtml function)
But, all this construction is not solid and there are still some points that require attention (other child blocks, filters and so on)
I want to create a page in the Magento CMS, then echo specific category descriptions on it. What is the code snippet i will need to accomplish this. I am assuming I will need to reference the categories' unique id within the database to echo their description...
thanks for the help!
john
Using PHP:
$categoryId = 15;
$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($categoryId);
if($category->getId()) {
echo $category->getDescription(); // Should escape this, blocks have $this->escapeHtml()
}
I don't know how to do this using magentos email/cms template markup (I don't think its possible) - unless you create a block or widget.
I know there is a way to programmatically invoice, ship, and set state on an order (http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/74072/), but I actually need to drill down even deeper to the item level of an order. We have a situation where, depending on item type, two different items can be processed in two different locations (from the same order). I can go into the Magento back-end and "ship" one item without "shipping" the other and append comments to that one item, but I'm looking for a way to do this programmatically. Thank you in advance for your help!
Update:
Here is the code I ended up using to accomplish this:
$client = new SoapClient('http://somesite.domain/magento/index.php/api/?wsdl');
$session = $client->login('username', 'password');
function extract_item_id($items, $sku ){
foreach($items as $item ){
if ($item["sku"]==$sku) {
return $item["item_id"];
}
}
}
$orderNum = "200000052";
$oderInfo = $client->call($session, "sales_order.info", $orderNum );
$item_id = extract_item_id($oderInfo["items"], "someSKU") ;
$itemsQty = array( $item_id => "1" );
$shipment = array(
$orderNum,
$itemsQty,
"Comment associated with item shipped.",
true,
true
);
var_dump($shipment);
$nship = $client->call($session, 'sales_order_shipment.create', $shipment);
I've never done it, but it looks like the SOAP API supports creating individual shipment items. That'd be the first thing I'd check.
If that doesn't work, I'd examine the source code the the Magento admin and reverse engineer what its doing with to create a single item shipment. Specifically, start tracing at the saveAction of the admin's Shipment Controller
app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/controllers/Sales/Order/ShipmentController.php
The order/shipment/invoice section of Magento codebase is one of the most volatile/iterative sections, with the core objects/methods/dependencies changing subtly between versions. Finding one "right" answer for this will prove difficult, if not impossible.