how-to.md

How-to

Procedures for common import tasks.

Allowed errors count

The library does not have an "allowed errors count", because it imports products in bulk. But if your aim is to stop the import after n errors have occurred and report only these n errors you can do this:

$errorCount = 0;

$config->resultCallback = function(Product $product) use (&$errorCount, &$log)) {

    if (!$product->isOk()) {
        $errorCount++;
    }

    if ($errorCount <= $allowedErrorsCount) {
        $log .= sprintf("%s: failed! error = %s\n", $product->lineNumber, implode('; ', $product->getErrors()));
    }
};

while ($moreProducts) {

    if ($errorCount > $allowedErrorsCount) {
        break;
    }

    $importer->importSimpleProduct($product);
}

This is useful if you have many errors to fix.

Multi-line CSV import

In a CSV import each product's store view information may be stored on a separate line.

sku     store       price       description
rrh1    admin       19.95       Little Red Riding Hood
rrh1    de_store                Rotkäppchen
rrh1    nl_store                Roodkapje

To import these products, you can use this scheme:

$previousSku = null;

while ($moreProducts) {

    $sku = $row['sku'];

    // start a new product when the sku changes
    if ($sku !== $previousSku) {
        $product = new SimpleProduct($sku);
    }

    $importer->importSimpleProduct($product);

    $previousSku = $sku;
}