Set Multiselect Attribute Using Attribute Code – Magento 1.9 Guide

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I am trying to create products programmatically. In the task, I need to set the multiselect attribute options. I tried like below, but it is not working.

$optionIds[] = $optionId; //$optionIds = array(41,42,43)
$product->setData($attributeCode, $optionIds);

But it is not working. I don't know what I am doing wrong. Can anyone help on this?

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Multiselect values are saved id db as imploded string, so if you created your attribute correctly, imploding array should solve the problem.

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You're setting the backend_model to '' it should be 'eav/entity_attribute_backend_array'

And you'll want to define the type as text not varchar, since varchar will have lower limit than what is required of the source model.

Take a look around the eav_attribute table for reference.

Hope this helps.

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You have to make sure, that magento changes your values to something which can be written to the database, an array can't.

so you need to add a backend model:

'backend'       => 'eav/entity_attribute_backend_array',

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