Comments on: Get XML Data into Magento via the Magento API

By: Sanne

Sanne — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:52:42 +0000

I totally don’t get it… I’m trying to import all products from my dropshipper, he uses XML or CSV files, now I tried these files from you, but where do the products go which are in the XML-file?
This is what I did:

Changed and uploaded the files you provided, made an xml file of your example (to test it)
and then went to mywebsite.com/importproducts.php it says it’s imported all fine, but I can’t seem to find the products in my catalogue? What am I missing? Please can you help me? I’m trying for weeks now to get the products from my supplier into my webshop…

By: mircea

mircea — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:50:47 +0000

doesn’t work for me… instead of adding lines to product_feed.xml …. it clears it out
pls help

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By: Adonica

Adonica — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:59:11 +0000

This is way better than a brick & mortar estaiblshnmet.

By: A

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:00:43 +0000

If you are available, I would like to hire you to setup the code for an automatically updating (and initially importing)) a product list from a drop shipper with an xml feed.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:17:20 +0000

Hey guys sorry for the long delay with no response. As you can see its been about a year and a half since I wrote this post, so I would imagine that some things might have changed on the magento side that possibly makes this code not work properly.

This code is only set up to work with simple products in magento, although I’m sure it could be made to work with configurable products, maybe with an extra loop that considers the iterations of a product that may need updating. Of course your feed would have to have that data in it as well.

By: pepperanne

pepperanne — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:29:31 +0000

Thank you for sharing this script with us Brian,
I tested your code and I would like to ask you if it’s tested for configurable products. Each configurable product consists of several simple products. Each simple product has it’s own stock. Updating the stock quantities of these simple products has no effect on live eshop Although stock quantities seem to change in backend, in frontend products are always available, even if the stock quantity is 0.I’m using magento 1.4.2. Could you please explain to me if/how this script handles configurable products?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:50:08 +0000

Hi Brian,

Interesting reading – but I am a little far from succeeding in getting the feed to work. Could I perhaps hyre you for a job on the exact same matter as you describe above?

All the best.

Thomas

By: Lucian

Lucian — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:45:24 +0000

@Chris! check for missing brackets and “;” on your code .

Hello Brian, your code is just updating the existing products in magento by using the catalog_product.update methode.

I’m looking for implementing the methode catalog_product.create to import/create the products from my .xml feed and after that doing updates using your code.

Thanks!

By: Chris M

Chris M — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:02:04 +0000

This looks like exactly what I need for my site but I have been struggling all day to get it to work the error that I am getting is:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [Sender] Invalid XML in /home/onoineco/public_html/processupdates.php:50
Stack trace:
#0 /home/***/public_html/processupdates.php(50): SoapClient->__call(‘call’, Array)
#1 /home/***/public_html/processupdates.php(50): SoapClient->call(’4941238c963cfcf…’, ‘catalog_product…’, Array)
#2 {main}
thrown in /home/***/public_html/processupdates.php on line 50

Any help that you can give would be greatly appreciated.