Question

I am trying to get Magento to set product attribute values on store views to be the same as the default values.

I have the following code called by an observer on

catalog_product_save_before

public function translateProduct($observer)
{
    Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);
    $product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($observer->getEvent()->getProduct()->getId());

    foreach (Mage::app()->getWebsites() as $website) {
        foreach ($website->getGroups() as $group) {
            foreach ($group->getStores() as $store) {
                $config = $store->getConfig('myconfig');
                if($config['enabled']) {
                    foreach($product->getAttributes() as $attribute) {
                        if($attribute->getBackendType() == 'text' && $attribute->getFrontend()->getValue($product) != '') {
                            $product->setStoreId($store->getId())->setData($attribute->getAttributeCode(), $attribute->getFrontend()->getValue($product));
                        }
                    }
                }                
            }
        }
    }
    return $this;
}

I know my code and loops are being called as I did

echo 'Here'; die(); 

through the loop to test it.

Is this the correct way to set data for Magento products across multiple store views or have I gone wrong somewhere?

Thanks in advance for any help/tips/pointers 🙂

Answer 1

Whoa there fella.

You need only set your data at the default level. If an attribute value is not set for a store context it will be inferred from the default.

🙂