Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

Hello PeppyOne,
On my live site my directory looks something like:
/at/home/public_html/zencart/

At home, what I just set up for testing this past weekend, it looks like:
E:\wamp\www\zencart\

In both cases I just created a new temp directory (actually, just copy the temp directory enclosed in the zip file) into my zencart directory. The first one, /at/home/... is on a shared host - linux based, while the second one, E:\wamp\... is on a windoze machine that I am using on a daily basis. On the shared host you can change the permissions using your ftp program to something like 777, and that should help ensure that EP is able to read and write to the directory, along with everyone else that knows it exist. On a windows based system just open a properties box and make sure that Read-only is not checked.

It ends up looking something like ../public_html/zencart/temp, ../public_html/zencart/admin, ../public_html/zencart/admin/include, ../public_html/zencart/include, etc. Please use care, as there is both the catalog include directory and the admin include directory.

Sorry that I can't be of more help at this point, this isn't my computer, the cable company has been having problems for the last 24 hours, so I am without my internet (using a public computer in the local library right now).

One last thing, check under the admin tab, the one on the far left, and see if EP is showing up at the bottom. If it is, then it is installed, if not, then something is wrong. This is where you can tell it where to find the temp directory. The EP menu item under Tools (far right) is for executing the program.

I'm having someone install my EZ Populate, she is charging me only a few dollars so I'm sure it must be ridiculously easy...either way I have a database of 17,000 products from a reseller I worked with years ago...database is in CSV format and the images for each product are on 3 DVD roms...would I be able to copy these to my desktop so that ezpopulate can just take them right off my desktop? How woudl I upload all those files? Can someone please give me a link to where I can download the actual excel template for ez populate? or email me?

thanks.

Awev, Again many thanks. EP shows up in config so I know it is installed. It is the blankety, blank uploads directory file that does not show up. I have the CMOD set at 777. When I installed zencart I installed it directly to the root directly. I did not create a folder to put it in. Maybe that is my problem. When I did install zen cart the first time and created a folder for it I always got the 404 message. Maybe I have zen Cart installed incorrectly or not to its best advantage. My uploads file is my root directory but so is my admin file etc. This must be the problem. I am still waiting on my support ticket. Hope I can get some answers. Iam anxious to move one but I sit and wait now.

HI.
First of all i'm pretty much a ZenCart noob.

We have a current version ZenCart store. I have downloaded Easy Populate version - 2.74MS2.
I have installed this into admin/ as per the EP instructions.
The instructions also say to add the following line
<a href="' . tep_href_link('easypopulate.php', '', 'NONSSL') . '" class="menuBoxContentLink">Easy Populate</a><br>'.

to admin/includes/boxes/catalog.php .
We dont have a file there named catalog.php, we have a file there named catalog_dhtml.php yet that file doesn't have the section in it that is mentioned in the EP instructions.

EP is NOT showing up in the admin / config screen.

Please help. I just need EP setup so that I can do one import of around 800 products.

Thanks

Steve
http://www.wineforlife.com.au

stoscano, where did you get that version?

I'm not sure if I missed some releases, but I think the latest version is 1.2.5.4

I don't recall seeing version 2.74MS2. I'm guessin MS2 probably means milestone 2, in which case that would be for OSCommerce, not ZenCart.

My bad. It must be the wrong version.

Where do I get the free ZenCart version? And where do i find install instructions for it?
google serach takes me to the oscommerce one.

Thanks a plenty

Hello again,
Sorry, still not at my own computer, cable modem got fried - don't know why, yet I should be back on-line at my own computer later today.

spatel2007:
I don't know how your friend, or you, plan to have the directories set up for the images, yet my idea would be something like ../images/cat_01, ../images/cat_02, where cat_0x is the category name, so you can find and update/replace/remove the images in the future if needed. Then use a FTP program to copy the images from the DVDs to the correct directories. It is easy to just copy whole folders, yet the management of those images may become an issue in the future, so think about the structor now. ZC and EP will NOT upload the images for you, hence the FTP program of your choise. Make sure that you have the images in place first, as that is a mistake I did make, and I had to go back and edit the product info to link it to the images (even with the SQL patch box, it still takes time).

peppyone:
Sounds like you are doing everything correctly. I just have ZC off the root directory so I could also install Crafty live help/chat, and Evolve2 blog software, and so on, without confusing myself. Lets see what the support ticket yeilds for you.

stoscano:
MS2 is for the oSc version, and that has so many support forums that it could be a book by itself. Look at ZenCart's main (home) page, select the download tab, and then the archived files. Look for version 1.2.5.4, and skip the 2.xx versions. One vendor that I work with provides a modified version 2.74 for oSc, what is nice of them, it just won't work here on ZC, and it doesn't account for any changes that I may make, such as adding UPC/ISBN, shipping fees, etc. Since they also provide a datafeed in the EP format for oSc it is easy for me to download the datafeed, change the categories to my own, and use the supported ZenCart version of EP.

The correct link is http://www.zen-cart.com/archived_con...s/admin-tools/ to the directory.

Just a generic file included with EP - stripped of everything but the first product and headings.

thanks awev, effort appreciated, but ep still not showing up in config.

So to check, there are a bunch of files in the ep download folder. let's call the folder "ep" and it contains easypopulate.php, easypopulate_filenames.php, etc.

like "store.com/ep/easypopulate.php"
same hierarchichal level as: store.com/admin/configuration.php

I am still not getting it. I am imagining that when EP is installed, the config menu will list it and/or "tools" will list it...yes? but not happening.

thanks!

I'm trying to use the split function to create files of 300 products each. However, it only creates 2 split files. One has 300 products and the other contains the remainder. Is it not supposed to create as many split files as required with 300 products per file?

nevermind, I forgot the end of line command.