eBay Turbo Lister 2.0 Exporter Support Thread

[taf]

Hi,

Been having the problem of getting the file to import into turbo lister. I haven't got excel to open and save the file so no luck there. Tried using Open office scalc and i just got a different error after saving the file when i tried to import it. I then tired opening and saving the file with plain old WordPad.

This seemed to do the trick, open the file with WordPad then save it and it will import into turbo lister.

I then compared these two files and the only difference seemed to be the carriage return type. WinMerge states: These files use different carriage return types.

Just thought I'd let people know what I found.

[taf]

Hi,

Been having the problem of getting the file to import into turbo lister. I haven't got excel to open and save the file so no luck there. Tried using Open office scalc and i just got a different error after saving the file when i tried to import it. I then tired opening and saving the file with plain old WordPad.

This seemed to do the trick, open the file with WordPad then save it and it will import into turbo lister.

I then compared these two files and the only difference seemed to be the carriage return type. WinMerge states: These files use different carriage return types.

Just thought I'd let people know what I found.

Think I've got a fix for this:

change line 645 in ebay.php from

$output = rtrim($output) . "\n"; 

to

$output = rtrim($output) . "\r\n"; 

this seems to work for me and i can now import the file directly into turbo lister

[taf]

I have both:

Tax Table 1 Apply Tax 1
set but i am not seeing tax added to my prices in the csv file if i comment out the following if statement i see tax added.

if (!isset($tax_rate[(int)$products->fields['products_tax_class_id']])) { 

[numinix]

I have both:

Tax Table 1 Apply Tax 1
set but i am not seeing tax added to my prices in the csv file if i comment out the following if statement i see tax added.

if (!isset($tax_rate[(int)$products->fields['products_tax_class_id']])) { 

Taf, can you try just removing the "!" and let me know. Likewise, turn off your add tax setting and test again and make sure it no longer adds tax.

[BlessIsaacola]

Think I've got a fix for this:

change line 645 in ebay.php from

$output = rtrim($output) . "\n"; 

to

$output = rtrim($output) . "\r\n"; 

this seems to work for me and i can now import the file directly into turbo lister

I have problem with the output file generated but the above fix doesn't work for me. I use ebay turbo lister exporter, yahoo product submit, google base and live product search. This is the only mod (eBay Turbo Lister) that I am having problem with the output.

My issues is the description field includes some strange character that I cannot simply find and replace. The character is a square box that is inserted into some description which causes Turbo Lister to not import. IF I manually delete the squares everything works.

I am wondering if there is away to strip the output of these squares, I am not sure if it's related to extra tabs or a return carriage problem as describes in previous post.

I am also not sure if this have anything to do with this:

$output = rtrim($output) . "\r\n";
            /*if(strtolower(CHARSET) != 'utf-8')
                $output_buffer .= utf8_encode($output);
            else
                $output_buffer .= $output;*/ 

Our charset=iso-8859-1 so I am not sure if there is something that needs to be done different with the above code.

Please help as I do not want to go through 1,000s of description fields to manually delete the square boxes.

Thanks!

[numinix]

Isaac,

You may have found something. Try removing the /* */ around that section and let me know if that changes anything. Your descriptions might look different, but at least they'll import.

[BlessIsaacola]

Isaac,

You may have found something. Try removing the /* */ around that section and let me know if that changes anything. Your descriptions might look different, but at least they'll import.

Thanks Jeff for the prompt response. Removing this:

/*if(strtolower(CHARSET) != 'utf-8')
                $output_buffer .= utf8_encode($output);
            else
                $output_buffer .= $output;*/ 

does not solve the problem. That's line 640-643 of /public_html/ebay.php. I just want to make sure that I am removing the right lines.

Thanks!

[numinix]

Don't remove the entire section, it's already commented out. Just remove the /* and the */ from the beginning and end and that portion of the code will become active again.

if(strtolower(CHARSET) != 'utf-8') 
  $output_buffer .= utf8_encode($output); 
else 
  $output_buffer .= $output; 

[yellow1912]

numinix, can I do something like this with this mod:

On my site the product price is 9.99. S&H is 2.95
When list on Ebay, I want to list the price as .99, and S&H is 11.5 (just an example)

This is the way many ebayers do to:
!. Avoid the high charge from Ebay
2. Get higher ranking on search (ebay lists cheapest items first)

Maybe something like this: allow user to set desired price on ebay, the the S&H will be total - SH for example?
Or maybe just let the user set the desired SH and price, which would be applied for all products within a price range?
Regards,
yellow1912