Magento API: Rebuild Indexes after adding new products

Question

I am currently writing a script that lets me import multiple products in magento.

$product = Mage::getModel(\'catalog/product\');
$product->setSku($data[         


        

Answer 1

There are at least two circumstances that prevent indexer to reindex a product on save.

One: the "Manual update" setting in the Indexes properties you find under System, Index Management. You should set it to "Update on Save" if you want a product to be indexed upon a save.

Two: the setIsMassupdate product flag that is used, for example, in DataFlow batch import procedures in order to prevent indexer to be triggered upon each product save method call.

Hope this helps. Regards, Alessandro

Answer 2

You can use such a model in Index module.

$processes = Mage::getSingleton('index/indexer')->getProcessesCollection();
$processes->walk('reindexAll');

Since you need to rebuild all the indexes, there is no filters aplied to collection. But you can filter index processes list by set of parameters (code, last time re-indexed, etc) via addFieldToFilter($field, $condition) method.

Small Suggestion

Would be great to set indexes to manual mode while you importing the products, it will help you to speed up the import process, because some of them observe product saving event , so it takes some time. You can do it in the following way:

$processes = Mage::getSingleton('index/indexer')->getProcessesCollection();
$processes->walk('setMode', array(Mage_Index_Model_Process::MODE_MANUAL));
$processes->walk('save');
// Here goes your
// Importing process
// ................
$processes->walk('reindexAll');
$processes->walk('setMode', array(Mage_Index_Model_Process::MODE_REAL_TIME));
$processes->walk('save');