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I have a category called Most Purchasing. Here I need to get most purchased/placed products and assign it to specific category programmatically. How can I achieve this?

Note : Here I need to get product collection based on customer purchased/ordered products.

Any help welcome with thanks.

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$categoryId = 41; // Your category Id
$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($categoryId);
$category->setPostedProducts(array()); // Removes all old products added to your category
$category->save();
$limit = 5; // Number of products to get
$storeId    = Mage::app()->getStore()->getId();
$products = Mage::getResourceModel('reports/product_collection')
            ->addOrderedQty()
            ->addAttributeToSelect('*')
            ->setStoreId($storeId)
            ->addStoreFilter($storeId)
            ->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1)
            ->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', 4)
            ->setOrder('ordered_qty', 'desc')
            ->setPageSize($limit);

Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_status')->addVisibleFilterToCollection($products);
Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_visibility')->addVisibleInCatalogFilterToCollection($products);
foreach($products as $product){
    $product->setCategoryIds($categoryId);
    $product->save();
}
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  • Jaimin, thanks a lot for your answer. Here I need to get most purchased products for every 5 mins. For that I have set up Cron Job in my server and as well as my module. But its not working. Why? Here I followed to set up cron
    – Mesk
    May 24, 2017 at 8:27
  • Are you sure your cron is running successfully? Try adding log message in your function and check if you get the message in var/log file. Once you are confirmed that your cron is working properly, try adding above code in a standalone php file to check if its working for you.
    – Jaimin Sutariya
    May 24, 2017 at 8:31
  • I have followed below code in my module's config.xml to setup cron job : <config><crontab><jobs><my_cron><schedule><cron_expr>*/5 * * * *</cron_expr></schedule><run> <model>mymodule/observer::doSomething</model> </run></my_cron></jobs></crontab></config> Observer.php Code class Inchoo_MyModule_Model_Observer { public function doSomething() { // Here I have added your code to get most purchased products } }
    – Mesk
    May 24, 2017 at 8:33
  • Yes the code is correct but first you need to make sure that cron on your server is running. Add Mage::log('Cron Working',null,'cron.log'); in your function and after 5 mins check var/log/cron.log file. If its created and you can see message "Cron Working", your cron is setup correctly.
    – Jaimin Sutariya
    May 24, 2017 at 8:39
  • The file(cron.log) is not generated under var/log. So whats the problem. In coding?
    – Mesk
    May 24, 2017 at 9:06
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I have achieved this by changing some modifications in Jaimin's code. This is the solution : 

$bestcategoryId = 19; // Your category Id
$bestcategory = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($bestcategoryId);
$bestcategory->setPostedProducts(array()); // Removes all old products added to your category
$bestcategory->save();

$_storeId = Mage::app()->getStore()->getId();
$_products = Mage::getResourceModel('reports/product_collection')
    ->addOrderedQty()
    ->addAttributeToSelect('*')
    ->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', array(
        Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Visibility::VISIBILITY_BOTH,
        Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Visibility::VISIBILITY_IN_SEARCH
    ))
    ->setOrder('ordered_qty', 'asc');
$categorybest = array($bestcategoryId);
foreach ($_products as $_product){
    $product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($_product->getId());
    $categoryb = array_merge($categorybest,$product->getCategoryIds());
    $product->setCategoryIds($categoryb);
    $product->save();

}

Thanks for @Jaimin support.

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  • @Jaimin can you please explain this concept of Best Seller? Because customer has purchased some specific product 3 to 4 times over the period of 5 years. But it's listed in that category. How?
    – Mesk
    Sep 2, 2017 at 8:17
  • @Jaimin this code gives empty results. why? : ` $products = Mage::getResourceModel('reports/product_collection') ->addOrderedQty() ->addAttributeToSelect('*') ->setStoreId($storeId) ->addStoreFilter($storeId) ->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1) ->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', 4) ->setOrder('ordered_qty', 'desc') ->setPageSize($limit); Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_status')->addVisibleFilterToCollection($products); Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product_visibility')->addVisibleInCatalogFilterToCollection($products); `
    – Mesk
    Sep 2, 2017 at 8:39
  • You are getting the product because you did not limit your collection. I think above code will give you all the products which are purchased. You can limit collection to 5
    – Jaimin Sutariya
    Sep 3, 2017 at 1:53
  • Yes , I already limit the product collection to 5 by setting $limit = 5; and I have tried with code you added as answer but its shows nothing. But I am having more no of products as bestseller. Can you please let me know what's the issue?
    – Mesk
    Sep 11, 2017 at 3:21
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    I have checked this Jaimin. The variable $_products gives me the products. But I am sure these products are not mostly purchased products. I think we need to change Mage::getResourceModel('reports/product_collection') for best selling products. Is there any alternatives?
    – Mesk
    Sep 15, 2017 at 7:55

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