Magento的'news_from_date'

Question

I am using the Magento API to make a product "New" with the following

'news_from_date' => date("d/m/Y h:i:s");

using catalog_product.update

This works perfectly fine and shows the item as "New"

However, I am now trying to make an item previously marked as "New" not to be new. I thought I could do this again with catalog_product.update and just making

'news_from_date' => null;

But this only sets the date to - 30/11/1999 which obviously keeps the item as "New" Can someone point me in the right direction?

Edit

I have also tried the following with no joy -

'news_from_date' => "00/00/00 00:00:00";

Thanks

Answer 1

Proper SQL DateTime format

Magento SQL stores dates in this format:

yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss

date("Ymd H:i:s");

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So instead of:

'news_from_date' => "00/00/00 00:00:00";

'news_from_date' => date("d/m/Y h:i:s");

Use:

'news_from_date' => "0000-00-00 00:00:00";

'news_from_date' => date("Ymd H:i:s");

Answer 2

尝试将属性news_to_date设置为上一个日期。

Answer 3

You can set the product date like that :

$_product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($PRD_ID);
$_product->setData('news_from_date', date("d/m/Y h:i:s"));
$_product->setData('news_to_date', date("d/m/Y h:i:s", strtotime('+1 week')));