EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[algerdes]

I ended up getting the installation working, but I'm still getting the warning that my uploads folder is missing even after I change the directory.

What are the permissions set to on that new directory? (Just a thought.)

[StevenMagnet]

777. I also can't get export to actually do anything, though that might be related to the upload directory issue.

[algerdes]

All has been working fine with EP4 until we tried to modify the price of the items and upload back to the site.

Edits were done using a plain text editor.

All items are updating EXCEPT the price field. This is the standard price field, v_products_price.

I'm pulling my last two hairs out trying to find out why. It worked earlier, but nothing I do now will get it to work again.

Even used a fresh download from the site, just changed the price, and uploaded/inserted. No go.

Anyone have any ideas?

[algerdes]

Not quite sure why, but I was able to create a list from the site, edit it using notepad++ (really nice plain text editor), and reupload it to the site. The changes took! The difference here was that I did NOT change the name of the file.

Earlier in this thread I saw mention of naming conventions. Can we get a better explanation as to what is required to upload as far as the names required and any other item that could cause a problem?

[algerdes]

Originally, I had a problem with the name and location of the temp directory. Ended up putting it just off of the root directory. Once I did that it worked just fine. (I originally wanted to bury it a couple of layers deep to prevent it from being seen. Oh well.)

[kan109]

i can not open my easy populate 4.0,after i upload a 1 CSV file have 742 Products.i want more, but i can not load it again!

[kan109]

How can i load the CSV file ,w/o admin page?~

[chadderuski]

Chad... changing the delimiter from COMMA to TAB is just a case of:

// CSV VARIABLES - need to make this configurable in the ADMIN
// $csv_delimiter = "\t"; // "\t" = tab AND "," = COMMA
$csv_delimiter = ","; // "\t" = tab AND "," = COMMA
$csv_enclosure   = '"'; // chadd - i think you should always us the '"' for best compatibility 

TO

// CSV VARIABLES - need to make this configurable in the ADMIN
$csv_delimiter = "\t"; // "\t" = tab AND "," = COMMA
// $csv_delimiter = ","; // "\t" = tab AND "," = COMMA
//$csv_enclosure   = '"'; // chadd - i think you should always us the '"' for best compatibility 

Is that all that needs to be done?

Hiya Schoolboy!

Yes... BUT! You would need to carefully test everything. I 'believe' I was consistent in my use of $csv_delimiter, but you will also have to use $csv_enclosure. Remember I'm using fgetcsv(). I noticed some odd things with tabs, but it may have been because of the platform I was using.

-chadd

[chadderuski]

Hi Chad, this is my first time posting in zencart community. I have installed Easy Populate 4.0.19 - Beta 1-28-2012 safely and add some product in my category. This is my new zencart store and i have tried upload my 500 product into the database using 4.0 version.

The problem i'm having is data upload all but it appear in my admin only less than half. i check in my phpmyadmin, it only upload half.

Updated records: 461
New Imported records: 21
Errors Detected: 0
Warnings Detected: 14
Memory Usage: 3720348
Memory Peak: 3925776
Execution Time: 2.43897008896 seconds.

The updated records seems did not appear in my cart but updated. This is my second attempt try to upload full data into the database and failed.

Really need your advise why it can't fully upload although system said updated.



Thanks in advance.
Ariff

Hi Ariff,

I will need to look at you CSV file. You can PM that to me or attach a portion of the file that contains the problem product numbers. Also, which version of zencart are you using, and which character encoding are your databases (utf-8, iso-8859-1, etc.).

-chadd

[chadderuski]

Chad,

New to ZenCart, advised to get EP4 "The Chad Version", have read this complete thread. Downloaded EP4 from github, and have installed per instructions. All have gone very well, until we went to Tools->Easy Populate 4.

The stated version and date on this is: "Easy Populate 4.0.19 - Beta 1-28-2012".

Reading the thread shows a flurry of activity has happened since then.

Is the downloaded version actually up-to-date with your releases and just not marked correctly, or is there a better/newer version for download?

4.0.19 is the current version of github. I will be updating hopefully this week. I was dreadfully sick since friday so I made no progress this weekend. 4.0.19 work fine, but does not have the new attribute features, plus I've added some more goodies that I hope are useful.

-chadd