Quote Originally Posted by SPH View Post
There is one EP version that does upload and insert product attributes even when they do not already exist. We got it here some time back, but I just re-downloaded and notice that most of the files are no longer in the download:

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=460

This has been the most reliable EP I've used. I recently installed it on a brand new zencart/domain...no data base sql to insert:

www.fashion-mart.biz

I uploaded product colors the other night, inserting them when they did not exist. (You do have to assign an attribute id no.) As I recall, with "regular" EP versions, you had to manually enter the attributes into the admin before uploading the product/attribute sheet.

This EP version is also great in that you can DOWNLOAD by category...don't have to be all or nothing.

Only thing is, it didn't generate the attribute spreadsheet properly. We found out that we could use the attribute spreadsheet generated by regular EP 1.2.5.4.

Anyway, I'm here at EP thread as I need a meta tag sheet, so I'll install a "regular" EP version on a test site to get the download sheets.

I would be interested in the EP that apparently allows one to insert additional fields in the admin. Would that work for the CEON URL Mod I wonder?

sph
my beta version supports product and category meta-tags and also multi-lingual category names. it installs independently of other EP versions, and also has download filters.

i completely rewrote chunks of code, hacked out much garbage and archaic code, cleaned up and fixed many known bugs, and combined good code and ideas from several coders:
original OSC version, langer, phazie (spelling?) and myself. jrobeson at github also had a sophisticated version, but I believe it's requires zenmagik now.

i wrote attribute handling from scratch (some inspiration from "Attributr") ... still not quite done!, re-wrote and re-conceptualized category importing to support languages and meta-tags.
added many useful fields, and also wrote category-breaks. oh, and two custom fields for price_uom, and products_upc.

still needs spit and polish, and attributes to be rounded out for completion. there are several problems with zencart's attribute model that make importing and creating attributes from
scratch a challenge, so I do have a limitation or two that I spell out in the documentation. there is a logical way to solve these problems, but would require major core file changes involving
attributes.

give it a try, perhaps you'll like it!

-cj