How to create a product programmatically in Shopware 6?

Jan 28th 2022

Create products programmatically in Shopware 6 is easy. Let's learn how it works.

The example will be added inside SaveProductCommand.php, part of MatheusGontijoHelloWorld plugin.

Inject the product repository into your `services.xml`

<service id="MatheusGontijo\HelloWorld\Command\SaveProductCommand">
    <argument type="service" id="product.repository" />
    <tag name="console.command" />
</service>

Inject the product repository into your `PHP` service

You can inject into any service. I'm currently injecting into a command. See the following:

<?php declare(strict_types=1);

namespace MatheusGontijo\HelloWorld\Command;

use Shopware\Core\Content\Product\Aggregate\ProductVisibility\ProductVisibilityDefinition;
use Shopware\Core\Framework\DataAbstractionLayer\EntityRepositoryInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
use Shopware\Core\Framework\Uuid\Uuid;
use Shopware\Core\Framework\Context;

class SaveProductCommand extends Command
{
    protected static $defaultName = 'matheus-gontijo:save-product';

    protected EntityRepositoryInterface $productRepository;

    public function __construct(
        EntityRepositoryInterface $productRepository,
        string $name = null
    ) {
        parent::__construct($name);
        $this->productRepository = $productRepository;
    }

    protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output): int
    {
        $suffix = uniqid();

        $this->productRepository->create([[
            'id'            => Uuid::randomHex(),
            'name'          => 'This is a sample product ' . $suffix,
            'taxId'         => 'b6e10c80b24946a48bb74e742d280c75',
            'stock'         => 999,
            'createdAt'     => '2022-01-01T10:17:05+02:00',
            'price'         => [
                [
                    'currencyId' => 'b7d2554b0ce847cd82f3ac9bd1c0dfca',
                    'gross'      => 99,
                    'net'        => 99,
                    'linked'     => true,
                ]
            ],
            'productNumber' => $suffix,
            'visibilities'  => [
                [
                    'salesChannelId' => '5ce47a708e484e4d8c20221f8cdfa08f',
                    'visibility'     => ProductVisibilityDefinition::VISIBILITY_ALL,
                ],
            ],
        ]], Context::createDefaultContext());

        return self::SUCCESS;
    }
}

Admin

After running my command three times, that's what I got on the admin:

Sample product admin

And that's what I got in the storefront:

Sample product storefront

There we go! We got three new products added to our Shopware 6 store! Both on admin and storefront!

Translation

In case you have multiple sales channels and they are in different languages such as German (de-DE), English (en-GB) and Spanish (es-ES), you can save the product like the following example. Pretty much the same, but array keys like name and description go under translations. Make sure you pass the correct data for each respective language. See the example:


$this->productRepository->create([[
    'id'            => Uuid::randomHex(),
    'taxId'         => '45488b52278447539af75092596acd10',
    'stock'         => 999,
    'createdAt'     => '2022-01-01T00:01:01+00:00',
    'price'         => [
        [
            'currencyId' => 'b7d2554b0ce847cd82f3ac9bd1c0dfca',
            'gross'      => 99,
            'net'        => 99,
            'linked'     => true,
        ]
    ],
    'productNumber' => uniqid(),
    'visibilities'  => [
        [
            'salesChannelId' => 'af27e0367c0a4096a4649e45563ad324',
            'visibility'     => ProductVisibilityDefinition::VISIBILITY_ALL,
        ],
        [
            'salesChannelId' => '643daa5c83f84c949b1b9fdb68cd0013',
            'visibility'     => ProductVisibilityDefinition::VISIBILITY_ALL,
        ],
        [
            'salesChannelId' => '15a59f8d6b7f4fd4afe3947f749af8b0',
            'visibility'     => ProductVisibilityDefinition::VISIBILITY_ALL,
        ],
    ],
    'translations' => [
        'en-GB' => [
            'name'        => 'Football ball',
            'description' => 'This is a football ball.',
        ],
        'de-DE' => [
            'name'        => 'Fußball',
            'description' => 'Das ist ein Fußball.',
        ],
        'es-ES' => [
            'name'        => 'Pelota de fútbol',
            'description' => 'Esta es una pelota de fútbol.',
        ],
    ],
]], Context::createDefaultContext());

See the final result: the same product has been successfully saved in three different languages!

Sample product different languages

I'm sure you have questions!

I have written complementary blogposts that might answer possible questions you have. Here they are:

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