The Magento Expert

Getting products with or without custom options using SQL

Mex — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 01:22:07 +0000

To get all products that do not have custom options, simply run the following SQL query:

SELECT
  *
FROM catalog_product_entity
WHERE entity_id NOT IN (SELECT DISTINCT
    product_id
  FROM catalog_product_option);

To get all products that do have custom options, remove the “NOT” from the above query.

Getting the status of every product in the database using MySQL

Mex — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 08:30:17 +0000

The following MySQL query returns the status of every product in the Magento database.

SELECT
  cpe.sku,
  q.product_status
FROM catalog_product_entity cpe
  JOIN (SELECT
    entity_id AS product_id,
    value AS product_status
  FROM catalog_product_entity_int
  WHERE entity_type_id = (SELECT
    entity_type_id
  FROM eav_entity_type
  WHERE entity_type_code = 'catalog_product')
  AND attribute_id = (SELECT
    attribute_id
  FROM eav_attribute
  WHERE attribute_code = 'status'
  AND entity_type_id = (SELECT
    entity_type_id
  FROM eav_entity_type
  WHERE entity_type_code = 'catalog_product'))) q
    ON cpe.entity_id = q.product_id;

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Change column count of category page in admin area (backend)

Mex — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:14:16 +0000

Open the category in the admin area (backend) and add the following xml to the layout update section.

Getting the URL of a product image and display the image

Mex — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:14:29 +0000

Use the following code to get a Magento products URL and to display the image on a tempate page:

getImageUrl(); ?>" alt="getName();?>" />

Deleting upsell products directly in the database

Mex — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:21:34 +0000

Once saved, upsell products can not be removed again easily. Using the following MySQL script, you can delete Magento upsell products from the database.

DELETE link.* FROM catalog_product_link AS link
LEFT JOIN catalog_product_link_type AS linktype ON (linktype.link_type_id = link.link_type_id)
WHERE linktype.code = "up_sell" and product_id = 123;

Loading a product by id

Mex — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:26:54 +0000

Use the following code to load a product by id:

$productId = 1234;
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($productId);