May 28^th 2015

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How to programmatically create URL Rewrites in Magento Community

Tags: Importing, Magento, redirects

I already covered this topic before for Magento Enterprise, but of course: there are cases you need to import 301 redirects into Magento Community at some point. Here’s how to do this:

The method

The method to programmatically create (or import) 301 redirects into Magento Community is as follows:

/**
 * Import rule for Magento Community
 * @param $fromUrl
 * @param $toUrl
 */
public function createRuleCommunity($fromUrl, $toUrl)
{
    // Create rewrite:
    /** @var Mage_Core_Model_Url_Rewrite $rewrite */
    $rewrite = Mage::getModel('core/url_rewrite');

    // Check for existing rewrites:
    foreach($this->storeIds as $storeId)
    {
        // Attempt loading it first, to prevent duplicates:
        $rewrite->loadByIdPath($fromUrl);

        $rewrite->setStoreId($storeId);
        $rewrite->setOptions('RP');
        $rewrite->setIdPath($fromUrl);
        $rewrite->setRequestPath($fromUrl);
        $rewrite->setIsSystem(0);
        $rewrite->setTargetPath($toUrl);

        $rewrite->save();
    }
}

/**

* Import rule for Magento Community

* @param $fromUrl

* @param $toUrl

public function createRuleCommunity($fromUrl, $toUrl)

{

// Create rewrite:

/** @var Mage_Core_Model_Url_Rewrite $rewrite */

$rewrite = Mage::getModel('core/url_rewrite');

// Check for existing rewrites:

foreach($this->storeIds as $storeId)

{

// Attempt loading it first, to prevent duplicates:

$rewrite->loadByIdPath($fromUrl);

$rewrite->setStoreId($storeId);

$rewrite->setOptions('RP');

$rewrite->setIdPath($fromUrl);

$rewrite->setRequestPath($fromUrl);

$rewrite->setIsSystem(0);

$rewrite->setTargetPath($toUrl);

$rewrite->save();

}

Redirect to the homepage

If you need to redirect to the homepage, you can simply set the $toUrl to index.php or the URL identifier of your homepage. Setting it to / wont work. I bumped into this one because a lot of 301 redirects redirected to the homepage, since the product in question no longer existed on the new website.

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