Set Special Price Programmatically In Magento

Question

I am trying to write a script that will set a special price on a product with a start and an end date. When I run my script it does successfully set the special price, but t

Answer 1

I have just tried your code on my catalog and it worked with a little adjustement.

You should pay attention to the loaded store; it is not allowed to update certain product fields if the ADMIN store is not the currently loaded (Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);).

<?php

require_once('app/Mage.php');

Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);

...

$product->save();
?>

Answer 2

This is just a guess but have you tried passing a timestamp like from time() and leaving out the setSpecialFromDateIsFormated(true)? That should cause the backend model to reformat it appropriately for you.