Magento: How to create a product during a setup script? - magento

Question

I am creating a module that needs the presence of one special product.
Did anybody manage to create a new product during a module's setup script?
There are several problems arising, for example Mage_Core_Model_App::getStore() is returning the default store as updateMode is set to true.

Answer 1

I fixed the problem
Call to a member function getStoreIds() on a non-object in
Mage/Catalog/Model/Resource/Abstract.php on line ...
by adding the following code at the beginning of my data upgrade script where i create products:
Mage::app()->getStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::DISTRO_STORE_ID)->setWebsiteId(1);
It is a workaround, but i could not find any other solution.

Answer 2

I think it should work with a data update script (mysql4-data-upgrade-1.0.0-2.0.0.php). In the data Mage_Core_Model_Resource_Setup::applyAllDataUpdates() function the update mode is - in contrast to the normal update scripts - not set to true. The update mode causes problems with creating products.

Answer 3

Try the below script for creating a product using SQL setup resource file
// Create Default Products
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
$data = array(
'attribute_set_id' => $attributeSetId,
'type_id' => 'simple',
'store_id' => 0,
'category_ids' => array($category->getId()),
'website_ids' => array(0),
'sku' => 'sample-product',
'name' => 'Sample Product',
'description' => 'Sample Product',
'short_description' => 'Sample Product',
'status' => 1,
'visibility' => 4,
'weight' => 1,
'price' => 100.00,
'setcustomdefault' => 1,
'tax_class_id' => 0,
'rearimage' => 'rear.png',
'frontimage' => 'front.png',
'defaultimage' => 'thumb.jpg',
'stock_data' => array('is_in_stock' => 1,'qty' => 20),
'created_at' => strtotime('now')
);
$product->addData($data)
->setInitialSetupFlag(true)
->save();

Answer 4

Here is a piece of code to create a product programatically:
require_once 'app/Mage.php';
Varien_Profiler::enable();
Mage::setIsDeveloperMode(true);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
umask(0);
Mage::app();
$product = new Mage_Catalog_Model_Product();
// Build the product
$product->setSku('some-sku-value-here');
$product->setAttributeSetId('some_int_value_of_some_attribute');
$product->setTypeId('simple');
$product->setName('Some cool product name');
$product->setCategoryIds(array(7)); # some cat id's, my is 7
$product->setWebsiteIDs(array(1)); # Website id, my is 1 (default frontend)
$product->setDescription('Full description here');
$product->setShortDescription('Short description here');
$product->setPrice(39.99); # Set some price
# Custom created and assigned attributes
$product->setHeight('my_custom_attribute1_val');
$product->setWidth('my_custom_attribute2_val');
$product->setDepth('my_custom_attribute3_val');
$product->setType('my_custom_attribute4_val');
//Default Magento attribute
$product->setWeight(4.0000);
$product->setVisibility(Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Visibility::VISIBILITY_BOTH);
$product->setStatus(1);
$product->setTaxClassId(0); # My default tax class
$product->setStockData(array(
'is_in_stock' => 1,
'qty' => 99999
));
Mage::helper('core')->p($product->getData());
After that to save it use $product->save();
Play with this code to get an ideea what it does.