How To Set Product URL Key OR Redirect URL in PHP

Question

So I am creating a Magento product when I call this if statement and it returns false, that all works...

I just want to create the URL or create a URL redirect for the product in the same statement

It needs to be within the same if statement as I want it to be created at the same time of the product creation

Here is my code:

if (!Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getIdBySku($sku))  {

  $product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
  $product->setName($name);
  $product->setSku($sku);
  $product->setDescription($desc);
  $product->setShortDescription($short);

  $stock_data=array(
    'use_config_manage_stock' => 0,
    'qty' => 0,
    'min_qty' => 0,
    'use_config_min_qty'=>0,
    'min_sale_qty' => 1,
    'use_config_min_sale_qty'=>1,
    'max_sale_qty' => 9999,
    'use_config_max_sale_qty'=>1,
    'is_qty_decimal' => 0,
    'backorders' => 0,
    'notify_stock_qty' => 0,
    'is_in_stock' => 0
  );

  $product->setData('stock_data',$stock_data);
  $product->setTaxClassId(2);     // default tax class
  $product->setAttributeSetId(4); //9 is for default

  $product->setWebsiteIds(array(1));
  $product->setCategoryIds(array(9));
  $product->setStatus(1);//1=Enabled; 2=Disabled;
  $product->setVisibility(4);//4 = catalog & search.

  try
  {
    $product->save();
  } catch(Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage();
  }
}

Answer 1

You can try using setUrlKey() like this:

$url = preg_replace('#[^0-9a-z]+#i', '-', $name);
$url = strtolower($url);
$product->setUrlKey($url);

Otherwise I think you may need to rewrite the product url.

Take a look at:

app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Url.php, Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Url and Mage_Core_Model_Url_Rewrite

Answer 2

You are missing a $product->setUrlKey(..); which sets the url key you want. Probably you need to rebuild the catalog_url index after saving.

Answer 3

Instead of using preg_replace

it's better to use in formatUrlKey() of Magento\Catalog\Model\Product

you can send it any string yow want

(recommended to add the sku to the product name)