Magento - programmatically add image from url?

Question

I'm currently working around one script which programmatically add products. Right now I have problem with the part that this script gets an image from URL and upload it to a directory and then use it as a product image.

I am using Magento 1.9.1.

So here is the part of the script which is supposed to take the image from the URL and upload it to the new product as product image:

$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($new_product_id);

$url = 'http://media.asicdn.com/images/jpgo/6080000/6089330.jpg';
$img = '/media/catalog/product/images/image1.jpg';
file_put_contents($img, file_get_contents($url));

$product->setMediaGallery (array('images'=>array (), 'values'=>array ()));
$product->addImageToMediaGallery ($img , array ('image','small_image','thumbnail'), false, false);
Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID); 

$product->save();

When I do that I receive error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Mage_Core_Exception' with message 'Image does not exist.' in /home/superweb/public_html/sportsdirect/app/Mage.php:595 Stack trace: #0 /home/superweb/public_html/sportsdirect/app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Product/Attribute/Backend/Media.php(274): Mage::throwException('Image does not ...') #1 /home/superweb/public_html/sportsdirect/app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Model/Product.php(1047): Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Attribute_Backend_Media->addImage(Object(Mage_Catalog_Model_Product), '/media/catalog/...', Array, false, false) #2 /home/superweb/public_html/sportsdirect/SignProduct.php(63): Mage_Catalog_Model_Product->addImageToMediaGallery('/media/catalog/...', Array, false, false) #3 {main} thrown in /home/superweb/public_html/sportsdirect/app/Mage.php on line 595

The product is created but there is no image for the product.

Solution

Hope this help

$newProduct = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($productId);

$image_url  = $data['productImg'];
$image_url  = str_replace("https://", "http://", $image_url); // replace https tp http
$image_type = substr(strrchr($image_url,"."),1); //find the image extension
$filename   = $data['productPartNumber'].'.'.$image_type; //give a new name, you can modify as per your requirement
$filepath   = Mage::getBaseDir('media') . DS . 'import'. DS . $filename; //path for temp storage folder: ./media/import/

$curl_handle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL,$image_url);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Cirkel');
$query = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);

Mage::Log('68. File Path ' . $filepath . ', image url ' . $image_url);

file_put_contents($filepath, $query); //store the image from external url to the temp storage folder file_get_contents(trim($image_url))
$filepath_to_image = $filepath;

if (file_exists($filepath_to_image)) {
    $newProduct->addImageToMediaGallery($filepath_to_image, array('image', 'small_image', 'thumbnail'), false, false);
    $newProduct->save();
}

Comments

[srgb]

add try-catch to $product->save()