Hi Ryk
Personally I'm rather partial to a bit of mindreading. The fuzziness helps make use of the empty areas in my head where all the brain cells have died off. So...
jsteelethg
Zen Cart has a much more sophisticated product and category structure embedded into its database than most carts professional or custom written. It therefore relies on its own tables for delivering data rather than trying to cope with different structures or missing data fields and so will not be able to read your pre-existing table.
There are however ways of transferring your data across. Firstly you can key it all in by hand using the Admin facilities. I'm guessing that's not going to be your favourite approach.
Secondly you could write a custom routine to convert the data. This can be done (I've done it) but I wouldn't advise it unless you are very familiar with all the relevant datafields Zen Cart's table structure.
Last, but certainly not least, the best approach is probably the use of a bulk upload facility such as Easy Populate. To do this you would export the data in your existing table to a spreadsheet readable format, hammer it into decent shape, and then use Easy Populate to upload it to the relevant Zen Cart tables.
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