3. Product Properties¶

3.1. Managing Properties¶

Managing properties happens exactly the same way like products, you have sylius.repository.property and sylius.manager.property at your disposal.

3.2. Assigning properties to product¶

Value of specific Property for one of Products, happens through ProductProperty model, which holds the references to Product, Property pair and the value. If you want to programatically set a property value on product, use the following code.

<?php

public function myAction(Request $request)
{
    $propertyRepository = $this->container->get('sylius.repository.property');
    $productPropertyRepository = $this->container->get('sylius.repository.product_property');

    $property = $propertyRepository->findOneBy(array('name' => 'T-Shirt Collection'));
    $productProperty = $productPropertyRepository->createNew();

    $productProperty
        ->setProperty($property)
        ->setValue('Summer 2013')
    ;

    $product->addProperty($productProperty);

    $manager = $this->container->get('sylius.manager.product');

    $manager->persist($product);
    $manager->flush(); // Save changes in database.
}

This looks a bit tedious, doesn’t it? There is a ProductBuilder service which simplifies the creation of products dramatically, you can learn about it in appropriate chapter.