EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[chadderuski]

I got a fatal erro after i changed my host,The version worked fin in my old host,someone please help.

atal error: Call to undefined function mb_internal_encoding() in /home/...easypopulate_4.php on line 4

what can i do to solve this problem.Thank you very much

Find out what version of PHP you are on. It should be 5.3... if you are older than that then your host needs to upgrade. Support for 4.x is being discontinued by most hosting companies.

This function is needed to deal with importing utf-8 character encoding for multi-byte languages like Greek, Russian, etc.

-chadd

[chadderuski]

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.

You will get a different error notice if you don't have write permissions.

If you want your import folder to be: http://www.yoursite.com/temp

Then you would set this in your admin: Configuration -> Easy Populate 4
"Uploads Directory" = temp/

NOTE: this is not the same as = /temp/

[chadderuski]

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.)

You can bury it, but depending on the folder, you may have to modify your htaccess file to allow this. For example: If you want to put this in you admin directory, you will have to edit your htaccess file. There is a post earlier in this thread that explains how to do this.

-chadd

[chadderuski]

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?

Yes, several import have naming conventions so the script knows how to handle the import file. If you keep the first part of the name:

Category-EP
CategoryMeta-EP
Full-EP
PriceBreaks-EP
PriceQty-EP
etc...

Yes, you need to match case (but I can loosen that restriction in a future update).

Hope that helps.

[chadderuski]

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!

Send me a PM and I'll see what if I can help you off line.

Can you do an export/import without downloading the file. This will not change anything, but it will give you an "Updated" notification. If this doesn't work, then there is something wrong with your install.

-chadd

[algerdes]

Thank you.
I hope you are feeling much better.
So the stated version discrepency is purely cosmetic. It does get one thinking.

I have more questions, but I'll wait till after today's exploratory surgery on my website. Perhaps I'll have more answers than questions after it.

[algerdes]

Good information.
Thank you.

[chadderuski]

Attributes Update:

Turns out I had no brave souls to test the pre-release code, so I will be putting this out into the wild soon... hopefully this weekend.

However, wanted to give people a chance to voice what columns they would like for the basic import.

Remember, the basic import ties a products_model to an products_options_name with a set of { products_options_values_name }.
I have mult-language support working correctly.

What attributes settings are the MOST common. The detailed attribute sheet will work to set any value in the table. So I'm not going to substitute that (it will over complicate in the initial import).

So if you have some feedback, now is the time to speak up and I'll see what I can do.

Once the new attribute features pass muster, I'll take this out of beta and submit to zencart's team for inclusion here.

thanks!
chadd

[SPH]

We make extensive use of attributes, mostly Colors for our dresses. (Sizes we can usually just copy across a category from a dummy product.)

Do I have the latest? My zip is called chaddro-EasyPopulate-4.0-9773477

sph
www.prommart.com

[darthun]

Hi,

I'm using easypopulate 4.0 with zencart and it's working like a charm. But i have many many subcategories, and haven't found a way to use zencart to setup the image path for categories. Is this possible ? How ?