EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

Wtashby,

Don't know where in the process of suggestions thathavebeen made. If the "original" site is still available, is EP4 the only option on your admin panel that is not accessible at this point? Information in your admin's catalog is the same as on the store's side? (Ie, the configure.php files effectively match the same directories and database? This may become more evident when the above install suggested by chadderuski is performed and the files reviewed. (These could be different than expected if it was thought thaat they were saved but the write permissions were not changed to allow writing before trying to save.)

I realize that there seems to be a problem, but there have been several that have installed this to 1.5.3 and having equivalent settings thathavent had the same problem.the thingis to find the cause and perhaps incorporate some sort of solution up front to more clearly explain what is going on and possibly a solution.

Can I export a google merchant feed with this mod too? What would I have to do?

I actually want the merchant feed in tab delimited as I want to use it for Amazon product ads upload. Can this be done?

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Originally Posted by mydanilo

Can I export a google merchant feed with this mod too? What would I have to do?

I actually want the merchant feed in tab delimited as I want to use it for Amazon product ads upload. Can this be done?

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For export only, there are three files you will need to modify: admin/easypopulate_4.php, admin/easypopulate_4_export.php, and admin/includes/functions/extra_functions/easypopulate_4_functions.php

The first file will need a menu option and an $ep_dltype name added, related data will need to be captured in the other two files, then in the functions file need to modify the function that includes set_filetype to identify the fields that will be desired to be exported as well as a sql function to kick off the creation of the information. Then the export file will do the processing of the data returned from the filetype function, so if wanting to get all products, will want that sql to effectively return at least all of the products to be processed. The full function does that as an example. If you want to change the delimiter from comma to tab there is a place to do that I think in the export function.

That's a rough discussion of how easy chadderuski has made this.

Well thank you but I think that might be over my head. I was hoping that it was a pretty simple config or that somebody already use this to create a google merchant feed and would be willing to share?

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Originally Posted by mydanilo

Well thank you but I think that might be over my head. I was hoping that it was a pretty simple config or that somebody already use this to create a google merchant feed and would be willing to share?

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Ahh, gotcha. Well I was just about to see what the expected output would be and maybe incorporate it into this version. But if someone alreadyhas/knows, then great.

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Originally Posted by mc12345678

Ahh, gotcha. Well I was just about to see what the expected output would be and maybe incorporate it into this version. But if someone alreadyhas/knows, then great.

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Well, I guess if anything, the research to know what is expected/required seems to be a sticking point at the moment. I somewhat thought that I might be able to pull from another's code, but haven't found such an example yet really not one that will provide a quick (next hour or so) solution. But looks like it is possible, just need to know what data and header is expected.

Maybe I can help there. The Amazon Product Ads Upload File template might help to identify what is needed. I've put it my drop box for you to look at:
https://db.tt/7At3BkNV

Or the Google Merchant Center Feeder, or Amazon Inventory Loader from Numinix could shed some light to what is needed.

It just would be great to have the ability to generate a usable feed from this mod.

Looking a bit further into what the sample feed looks like, it should not be too difficult to just hand match the headers up with what I get from the regular full export of my product listing. I shall give it a shot and post my findings.

Matching up header is not too difficult but I've discovered that I don't have the products URL in my exported file. I need this for the Amazon feed. Any suggestion how this could be added to the exported file?

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Originally Posted by mydanilo

Matching up header is not too difficult but I've discovered that I don't have the products URL in my exported file. I need this for the Amazon feed. Any suggestion how this could be added to the exported file?

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Are you using standard ZC URIs? Regardless would want an additional $row[] to receive the uri, then some point after most/all of the data has been collected, within the while loop for the row data, construct a standard uri, say possibly with the zen_href_link function.