Quote Originally Posted by Clayo84 View Post
Okay, I'm brand new to Zen Cart, and wanted to post a thank you to everyone that has contributed to this plugin because it worked perfectly for me!!

I installed Zen Cart(1.5.1) on Host Gator shared hosting using the script that they provided, so it's the only site on my server at this point.

I had tried a different version of EP that claimed to offer csv support, as well as another one that claimed to work with native Excel files. Neither worked out for me.

I found that with this plugin, I did end up using Open Office (and was surprised to find it's not Apache Open Office) to edit the files as suggested.

Again, thank you, and good luck to anyone else struggling with this plugin - it's worth it!
Welcome to ZC, glad to hear that you've gotten this far, though using the install script, you've missed out on a lot of the learning opportunities of managing ZC. Hopefully, you'll take the time in the near future to manually upgrade to the latest ZC version, which can be done while your current store remains functional/operational. But I digress.

For some reason, cause yet to be determined the export of a char(1) value of a plus, is being translated to a 0 on export. We haven't discussed versions of software yet, the identification of the various charsets (includes/configure.php, admin/includes/configure.php, database tables and one other place I can't remember), nor the status of internal character encoding (top right in the Easy Populate 4 screen).

Anyways, the majority of the issues are in the usage of the plugin, not the plugin itself, although this current issue appears to be a bit of an anamoly to the local setup, not so much the program itself.

Thinking of beginning a new thread with the details of the code compressed down to the applicable actions, when I create it, I'll post the link here. Jenovee, if you wouldn't mind following and subscribing to it, maybe this can be resolved.