Set the base image programmatically

Question

I have this problem that I cannot solve. Partly because I cannot explain this with the right conditions. I'm new to this, so sorry for this awkward question.

Below you can see an overview of my goal.

I am trying to sell a similar product in my magento for this, I wrote a code in which everything works fine.

But I have only one problem with images.

that is, I get all the images of the current product, but the base image is not selected. How can I set the very first image as the base image Programmatically.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Hello, you can do the following:

$image =$imagePath."image.png"; $product->setMediaGallery(array('images'=>array (), 'values'=>array ())); if(is_file($image)) { $product->addImageToMediaGallery($image, array ('image', 'small_image', 'thumbnail'), false, false); } 

To do this, you first need to install a media gallery, PS This is a necessary step.

then add all the images to the gallery using addImageToMediaGallery, where 'image' ref to 'base_image'

In the above example, we set image.png to base_image, small_image and a thumbnail in one call.

Hope this helps you.

Answer 2

I achieved the same result using:

 $product->setSmallImage($path) ->setThumbnail($path) ->setImage($path) ->save(); 

Works best for the case when your media gallery has one or more images.

I do

 $product->load(); $gallery = $product->getMediaGalleryImages(); $paths = array(); foreach ($gallery as $image) { $paths[] = $image->getFile(); } sort($paths); $path = array_shift($paths); try { $product->setSmallImage($path) ->setThumbnail($path) ->setImage($path) ->save(); } catch (Exception $e) { echo $e->getMessage(); } 

Gets all product images, sorts them by file name and sets the first to the main product image. When I started the import and added all my photos, but did not set the primary image.

To capture a set or “broken” products, I used:

  $collection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product') ->getCollection() ->addAttributeToFilter('small_image', array('eq' => ''));