Problems with EasyPopulate Advanced

[schoolboy]

Schoolboy,

I would ask you the same question but for the non commerial version of EP:-

would you be willing to send me a copy of your file? All I am really after is the top row, showing all the row titles, to make sure I start with something I know works.

Of course as I mention, the one part I am most interested is the part of the file referencing metatags per product.

I believe you are referring to the header row of the "spreadsheet" ?

This won't help you with meta tags. Before you can incorporate meta tag data into the "spreadsheet", the capacity for easypopulate.php to read/write into these database fields need to be built.

It's not difficult to make these edits to easypopulate.php, and the technique is outlined HERE.

You need to be very careful making these edits, however... follow the instructions with appropriate care.

You may want to consider adding other fields from the products table while you are doing the edits. (You will also see the FIELD NAMES for the various meta data fields. You MUST make sure your edits to the php file use the same field names...)

[schoolboy]

when you have successfuly edited easypopulate.php, and over-written the existing file (after backing it up!)...

... do an EP "dump" of your existing products.

It will produce a TXT file with the relevant headers for the meta tag field(s).

[darkmarauder]

Right this is really becoming a complete mess.
I fear I may have confused the matter somewhat.

So:-
Completely forgot EPA, I have perfectly good price files and it's just causing me more trouble than I need.
So my question is, with a shop already installed with Easy Populate free, and with the shop having products in it. How can I precisely import meta tag information in to the shop at the same time that I upload a price file?

[apsona]

May I suggest Apsona ShopAdmin? It will let you import/update products and their metadata. And IMHO it's easier to use than EP.

Hope this helps.
Apsona
http://apsona.com

[schoolboy]

OK Apsona... I'm getting this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/modsh2/public_html/football/admin/apsona_functions.php on line 15

Possibly because I gave you my top-level URL and not the folder in which the demo shop sits. ?

[apsona]

That looks more like an error that occurs because of an older PHP version. Perhaps you are using a PHP version older than 5.1? ShopAdmin requires PHP 5.1 or better.

Regards.

[schoolboy]

OK... will try it on 5.2 .

A quick look at the config indicates that it refers to your server before "kicking into life".

This suggests it gets "authorisation" to apply the module (enable it) after verifying that the user has signed up with you.

Good idea...

But does the URL submitted during sign up HAVE to be the exact location of the store? (ie: full http path to the store)... Or can it jus be the path to the root (even if the store is in a sub-folder?)

[apsona]

As you say, the software is downloaded from our server, for several reasons:

• Easier for us to push out bug fixes to all users
• Easier for us to provide customizations for particular users, since we are able to identify the user who is asking for the software (e.g., someone wants custom fields in their product table)
• We can track the usage patterns of our system so that we can focus our optimization efforts on more-commonly-used aspects

As for the URL, we only ask that you provide the URL to the shop so that we can correlate it for data analysis purposes. We do not insist that it should be any particular place in your shop.

Hope this helps.

Apsona
http://apsona.com

[schoolboy]

OK... working

[apsona]

Glad to hear that it's working. I would be delighted to get your feedback on it, and your thoughts on how to improve it.

Regards.
Apsona
http://apsona.com