Comments on: Product Import In Magento Alongwith Updating The Attribute's Options

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:28:52 +0000

Do the attributes have to already exist and be assigned to the correct attribute set for this to work? I got this working and it imports products but there are still many attributes missing after the import.

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By: Yigal

Yigal — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:18:56 +0000

No, I gave up on this method and used this one:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/9391/P0/

By: lonypny

lonypny — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:34:41 +0000

Yigal, did you figure out how to get a proper single select?

By: Yigal

Yigal — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:14:48 +0000

Help! just as I thought I figured it out I found that all the options are just “Array” so now I got thousands of “array” options but not a single proper one.

By: Yigal

Yigal — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:57:41 +0000

I just had 2 days of clueless guessing why I keep getting:
Method “save” not defined in adapter

So for future reference you should know that the adapter path is always lowercase and is built like that:
_ means “/”
/ means “/Model”
PHP file should be lowercase and without “.php” extension
So when you put the path to the Import.php inside your Model directory, if the directory looks like that:
/app/code/local/Namespace/Module/Model/Import.php
the adapter path would be:
module/import

I also recommend using the Module Creator from here:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/Daniel+Nitz/extension/1108/modulecreator

Other than that, Thank you Subesh! you saved tons of manual work.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:27:26 +0000

I changed line 216 of import.php from
$setValue=$this->updateSourceAndReturnId($field,trim($value));

to
$setValue=$this->updateSourceAndReturnId($field,$value);

and now it seems to be importing ok… Could you confirm if this was the right thing to do and if you can see any potential problems?

Thanks again for a great bit a work… will save me loads of time.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:44:59 +0000

I am testing with Magento 1.4.0.1 and I am getting the following error after import has started for each product:

* Notice: Array to string conversion in /home/administrator/Projects/magento/htdocs/app/code/local/SURE/ImportA/Model/Import.php on line 216

then no records were imported…

* Processed 100% 7/7 records
* Imported 0 records
* Finished profile execution.

The format of the CSV is what Magento 1.4.0.1 has exported, I just added a couple of lines for testing so I guess the format of the CSV is correct.

Your help would be very much appreciated… thanks!

By: Subesh Pokhrel

Subesh Pokhrel — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:53:47 +0000

I’ve uploaded the XLS sheet here plz check

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aji4wlRfG_gjdFEzRF9nVWFvZTRlMEZ5WGcxUWV4ZGc&hl=en

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:55:44 +0000

Hi Subesh Thanks. I will be doing the testing in ver1.4.01.. What really could help is if someone could:
1. provide a sample CSV file
2. What Headings we would add for the spreadsheet especially for attribute options

Thanks in advance for all your help, and thank you Subesh for your knowledge sharing on this blog.