Magento 2 – Associate Simple Products to Configurable Products Programmatically

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Programmatically:
How to associate simple products to the configurable product without creating configurable product, because it exists.

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I found the solution:

Load product configurable by ID:

$associatedProductIds = [2060,2061,2062,2063];//Simple Product ids array
$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
$product = $objectManager->create('Magento\Catalog\Model\Product')->load(2046); // Load Configurable Product
$product->setAssociatedProductIds($associatedProductIds);
$product->save();

Load product configurable by SKU:

$associatedProductIds = [2060,2061,2062,2063];//Simple Product ids array
$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
$product = $this->objectManager->create($this->mProduct, null)->getSku('24-WG085_Group'); // Load Configurable Product
$product->setAssociatedProductIds($associatedProductIds);
$product->save();

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Magento – Associate Simple Products with Custom Options to Configurable Product

I strongly recommend you to reconsider what you want to do as it creates conflicts on almost every aspect of Magento. Consider this:

Custom Options are meant for end user to "fine-tune" product. Predefining them in configurable product removes their main purpose. This argument alone hints that there must be an another way to do whatever you want to do.
Configured products have their own list of options. I don't think there's a simple way to build nested lists without rewriting pretty much everything from wish-list to credit memos. As an additional "bonus" update so extensive renders whole installation pretty much unupgradable.
Even if you manage to find workaround from this problem programmatically, there's no way to set custom options for simple products on the backend, making any product created this way a bag of hurt.
You can add Custom Options to configurable product themselves. This almost certainly creates its own set of issues.

It's much easier to generate a new simple product with appropriate attribute value and use that instead. And even if you need to integrate it with external inventory system, it's way easier to modify than rewriting better part of Magento.

Magento – How to associated products to configurable product programmatically

Assuming you know the product ids and the simple products have values for the configurable attribute:

$configurable_product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($id_of_configurable);
$configurable_product->getTypeInstance()
                     ->saveProducts(
                         $configurable_product, 
                         $array_of_simple_product_ids
                     );

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