Comments on: Magento: How to import additional images for products

By: pis

pis — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:39:09 +0000

can we import images with image sort order?it’s very important for me.

Is there any way we can achieved this goal….?

By: dgento

dgento — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:40:04 +0000

Hi,

I have a problem that after import, images are saved into their respective location and record is also saved to database (image gallery). But those i mages are not visible into admin-> manage product detail…

Can you suggest me what should i do

By: Jonathan Day

Jonathan Day — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:40:54 +0000

By the way, I did eventually get this working, but by a manual work-around. For some reason the Inchoo_Import product adapter (and also the Mage_Core) doesn’t recognize any non-standard image fields (other than base, thumb, small) and add them into $this->_imageFields.

So it imports the text of the image path into the cat_prod_entity_varchar tables with the correct EAV attributes, but (a) doesn’t copy the images files into /media/catalog/product and (b) doesn’t set the images in the Gallery.

The work-arounds were to add an entry into cat_prod_entity_media_gallery for each image with an attribute_id = 73 (“media_gallery”) and the relevant entity_id. Then manually copy the image files into /media/catalog/product/X/Y where X and Y are the first two letters of the file name.

This was really important for me as the site has an image-based nav (don’t ask – designers!!!) so now the content admins can upload new nav images without needing developer.

Hope this helps someone!

By: Jonathan Day

Jonathan Day — Thu, 06 May 2010 07:19:59 +0000

Thanks for this. I’m trying to do an import for images that have a specific attribute (ie I want image attributes in addition to base, thumb and small). I’ve added the new Media Image attribute and saved it in the default attribute set. The new attribute appears in the admin interface and I can manually upload images and select the radio button for my new attribute.

When I run an import, it correctly updates the eav model with the path to the file, but it doesn’t appear in the Image Gallery on the product’s admin view, and using the $product->getDefaultNavImage() (the correct getter) doesn’t work. Does that make sense? Any ideas on how to fix?

Thanks,
Jonathan

By: Avi Shefi

Avi Shefi — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:41:50 +0000

Looks like this has already been posted here: http://devzone.pratthost.com/2009/10/09/magento-import-multiple-images-for-products-module/

Apart from that, Magento supports an already-built feature for importing product images. There’s a field named “gallery”, which accepts image names separated with commas, and can be used with the import process.
All that is required is adding the last few lines that appear in this post, so that it pull the images gallery information from this pre-built column.

The “gallery” column appears to be a Magento DataFlow feature which was already coded, but not completed (open source, go figure).

By: Domagoj Potkoc

Domagoj Potkoc — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:51:19 +0000

The first snippet of code is only example, ignore it.

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:08:37 +0000

I am not sure what you are doing at step 3 with the first snippet of code. Where is this edit located?