Upload Image Magento API

Question

I'm creating a SOAP v2 api in Magento, and one of the methods is to upload an image to the Magento media folder. So my question is: how can I send an image to magento without using a form? and how can I upload it to the media folder.

Answer 1

The easiest way is place images to media/import folder before and then use

$product->addImageToMediaGallery($filePath, array ('image','small_image','thumbnail'), false, false);

function.

Check this comment for the full description of this function addImageToMediaGallery copy the image file to media folder

If you can't upload images, you can use two ways:

1. Send images to API as strings and on your side use file_put_contents to save it

2. Send images to API as links and on your side use file_get_contents/file_put_contents to get/save them

Answer 2

 //get the form data 
 $data = $this->getRequest()->getData(); 
 $sku = $data['sku'];
 //get other product attributes and add like below
 the following is the api that you will call
 try {
                $result = $client->call($session, 'catalog_product.create', array('simple', $attributeSet['set_id'], $sku, array(
                        'categories' => array($categories),
                        'websites' => array($websites),
                        'name' => $name,
                        'description' => $description,
                        'short_description' => $short_description,
                        'weight' => $weight,
                        'status' => $status,
                        'url_key' => str_replace(' ', '_', $url_key),
                        'url_path' => str_replace(' ', '_', $url_key),
                        'visibility' => $visibility,
                        'price' => $price,
                        'tax_class_id' => $tax_class,
                        'meta_title' => $meta_title,
                        'meta_keyword' => $meta_keyword,
                        'meta_description' => $meta_description,
                        'front_image' => $image
                )));
            } catch (SoapFault $fault) {
                Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addError($fault->getMessage());
                header('Location: ' . Mage::getBaseUrl() . 'product');
                exit;
            }

            $productId = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getIdBySku($sku);
            $

if you see in the end you have

$productId

you can add images to products using the following code

        if (!file_exists($imageResized) && file_exists($imagePath)) {
            $imageObj = new Varien_Image($imagePath);
            $imageObj->constrainOnly(TRUE);
            $imageObj->keepAspectRatio(TRUE);
            $imageObj->keepFrame(FALSE);
            $imageObj->resize(600);
            $imageObj->save($imageResized);

            $product->setMediaGallery(array('images' => array(), 'values' => array()));
            $product->addImageToMediaGallery($imageResized, array('image', 'small_image', 'thumbnail'), false, false);
            $product->addImageToMediaGallery
            $product->save();
        }

The idea is this: You are creating the product first then you are adding the images directly after creating the product.

Hope you got the idea. Thanks