Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[schoolboy]

Thanks for the reply. All my image details are correct and still no image. However, when I add photo through set-up page, the image appears even though the both addresses before and after are the same.
For some reason, my ZC is not reading the photo unless I go through the set-up page. I even looked at the addresses in my database and all are correct.
Any suggestions?

What method are you using to UPLOAD the image files, to the images folder, on the server?

[808helmets]

I am using fireftp through my firefox browser.

[schoolboy]

You should be using a dedicated (and comprehensive) FTP program, such as Ipswitch WS-FTP Pro - or if you want a free (less reliable) program, try Filezilla.

Browser-based FTP is unreliable, and you may find that you have been sending your images to the server in ASCII mode - rendering them unreadable.

[Earnest-Enterprises]

I am using Zen 1.3.8a.
I have the mod 'Dual Pricing' installed.
I have the mod 'Image Handler' installed.
Instead of using Excel 2007 I opted to use OpenOffice for my spreadsheet app.

I created a small test list of products, about 10. I deleted the columns I don't use as recommended in the EP docs (specials, etc.). I copied and pasted the list, including the headers, into a new file and saved it as a .csv file. Also all cells were formatted as plain text.

Here's what's happening:

When I upload the list only the first item in the product list shows in my products. The rest do not show. At the bottom, after the upload, where it gives a listing of the products uploaded in EZ admin it shows the first product in the list in bright green with the rest in the list standard black text (which tells me that only the first product 'went through'.)

Also, the image (which was entered in the image spreadsheet cell for each item) does not show, as well. I have placed all my images in the default Zen location of the 'images' directory in the store root.

I find EZ a great app and will stick with it until I get it to work right but as of now I'm having these two issues. I have checked the ADMIN/CONFIG/EZ setups and they are all set properly. I can successfiully download the list using EZ but it apparently is the uploading that's giving me problems.

Do the EZ headers (i.e v_product_price, etc.) need to be uploaded along with the listing (I AM currently including the headers in my testing)?

Any ideas on why this might be happening? (Have searched this thread and found no post dealing with this particular problem).

Thanks in advance!

Rod

[808helmets]

Thanks for the reply.

I tried using filezilla and I am getting the same results.

When I go to categories and edit of one my products, the image name appears since it was uploaded through easy populate. After clicking preview, the product image does not appear.

However, when I go back to the product set-up page, click browse and add product image manually, and then go to preview page, the image finally appears.

I am not getting the image to appear unless I add through the product set-up page, regardless if the product links and file names are correct.

I uploaded through easy populate successfully, and all links and image folders are aligned. But, I am still not having success with images appearing.

Any suggestions?

[Earnest-Enterprises]

How would I go about globally renaming my product image names (in column B of the EZ spreadsheet aka v_Products_Image) Example. I have the following product model numbers in column A:

34225
45667
34556

In EZ Populate it asks for the image name and location (which in my case the image name is the same as the model number) in column B. So I copied and pasted the model numbers to column B. While I have used a spreadsheet what is the command to do a global renaming of all my model numbers with the .jpg extension (in leiu of doing each one manually) at one shot? I know there's a way but just can't find it.

I'd like all my product image names to look like the following:

34225.jpg
45667.jpg
34556.jpg

Thanks for any help. I imagine it's fairly simple.

Rod

[schoolboy]

Thanks for the reply.

I tried using filezilla and I am getting the same results.

When I go to categories and edit of one my products, the image name appears since it was uploaded through easy populate. After clicking preview, the product image does not appear.

However, when I go back to the product set-up page, click browse and add product image manually, and then go to preview page, the image finally appears.

I am not getting the image to appear unless I add through the product set-up page, regardless if the product links and file names are correct.

I uploaded through easy populate successfully, and all links and image folders are aligned. But, I am still not having success with images appearing.

Any suggestions?

I've just been assisting someone with a similar sort of issue, and when we went into it, we found that the core code of ZC was so heavily customized (a lightbox zoom feature had been embedded into a huge number of core files) that it was no wonder certain functions were not performing.

All that easy populate does is write the NAME of the file to the database. It just provides the PATH and image NAME. In a standard install of zencart, the php code references this line of text (because that's all it is really) from the database, and uses it to process the <img src> link to the relevant image.

If you are putting in the correct LOCATION in EP for your image files, AND you are sending the actual images up to the server via BINARY ftp, then the images should display.

I have a feeling you have some intricate customization (such as a lightbox feature), that seriously interferes with this standard behaviour. When you add an image via the product add/edit screen, there is probably some code sitting there that re-writes not only the images (some perhaps as thumbnails with a _th1 addition before the extension?), but their relative paths as well.

What image enhancing mods do you have installed - and how long have they been there? (Who put them there?)

[beco1979]

Hello,
I'm sure this has probably been covered in previous posts but I can't route it out. Is there a page somewhere telling you ste-by-step how to use easy populate.
I have it installed, then I download the file that already has a few files on it - "Download Complete tab-delimited .txt file to edit" . From there I'm a bit lost..... I can see the items and can add on items in Excel, tried open office. But nothing I do seems to work so I'm probably missing something obvious as usual!! I just would really appreciate someone pointing me to a page that holds my hand and tells me what to do.
I really appeciate any help.

[schoolboy]

When I have time, I add stuff to my WIKI on easy populate:-

http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Easy_Populate

[wmorris]

tom50 Re-check your install, I think you have missed a .php file from the FTP.

bkeaton What version are you using ? (Money on, that you are not using v1.2.5.4)

touchclothing Read the Readme.txt file and run the uninstall http(this will remove the database configs for EP) and then remove all the EP 1.2.5.4 .php files as the install.

cdnbride What version are you using ? (Money on, that you are not using v1.2.5.4)

I am using this version "Zen Cart 1.3.8a"