Magento Product Insert Function

Question

Hi,

I need to add a custom option to all products as they get saved. For that I need to find the function that inserts the products into the database, which I'm not able to find.

Please, any help would be appreciated.

thanx

Answer 1

How about http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/doc/webservices-api/api/catalog_product#catalog_product.create?

Answer 2

Magento's EAV system is pretty strung out among several files, so you won't find a single function that accomplishes what you want. If you did go looking for it, and changed it, you would also be changing the same save method that mostly every other object in Magento uses, which is probably not what you want.

To do what you want, try setting up an observer/listener on the events that catalog products use when saving, namely catalog_product_save_before or catalog_product_save_after. That way, you don't have to hack the framework.

Hope that helps!

Thanks, Joe

Answer 3

    $client = new SoapClient('http://www.magentolocal.it/api/?wsdl');
$session = $client->login('productloader', '1234567890');

$sku = "123456";
$attrs['name'] = "Template #1";
$attrs['description'] = "This is the first template.";
$attrs['short_description'] = "This is the short description of the template";
$attrs['websites'] = array('1');
$attrs['price'] = "11.53";
$attrs['categories'] = array('35');
$attrs['images'] = array()

$result = $client->call($session, 'catalog_product.create', array('simple', '63', $sku, $attrs));
echo $result;
$client->endSession($session);