How 'Add Design Change' with magento shell script?

Question

I want add new theme with magento shell script. I think it's possible with direct access to MySQL 'design_change' table. But I don't know how to do it. Any ideas?

Answer 1

First you need to create theme in file-level

Then using below query for applying the theme into your store

INSERT INTO 'design_change' ('design_change_id', 'store_id', 'design', 'date_from', 'date_to') VALUES ('', 'STORE_ID', 'packageName/ThemeName', 'Starting_date', 'END_Date');

Here

• design_change_id should be blank as it primary key.
• store_id is the store id of your store where you want to apply the the theme.
• packageName is the package of theme which is located at app/design/{area}/{packageName}. ThemeName is the name of theme which will be point to the location app/design/{area}/{packageName}/{ThemeName}. Magento skin folder location should be skin/{area}/{packageName}/{ThemeName}.
• date_from is the starting date of applying theme
• date_to end date of applying theme

Shell Script:

If you want do this using shell php script then try below code:

<?PHP
require_once "YOUR_MAGENTO_DIR/app/Mage.php";
umask(0);
Mage::app('admin');

$design = Mage::getModel('core/design');
 $design->setData('store_id','STORE_ID');
 $design->setData('design','packageName/ThemeName');
 $design->setData('date_from','YYYY-MM_DD');
 $design->setData('date_to','YYYY-MM_DD');

try {
    $design->save();
     echo  'The design change has been saved.';
} catch (Exception $e){
    $e->getMessage();
}

Answer 2

If by a Shell script you mean, a means to do such via Shell with a boot strapped Magento and not just a raw bash script or such.

Familiarize yourself with:

• https://github.com/OpenMage/magento-mirror/blob/magento-1.9/shell/abstract.php

It is the same scripts that can be executed via php -f shell/file.php -- somearguments

Using Amit's SQL should work or you can utilize the framework with the shell abstract mentioned.