EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[chadderuski]

Update Thursday 1/31/13
Did a fresh ZC 1.5.1 install on my hosting site, uploaded EP4, everything worked as expected/documented.
Still does not install on local WinXPsp3 sandbox with apache 2.2.6 and PHP 5.2.17.

Does anyone have experience with ZC 1.5.1 and/or EP4 on a windows box?

Capt,

Are you using a WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) package, and if so, which one?

I have not tested EP4 under WAMP, but I have used MAMP (I work mostly on the mac) before and it worked okay.

-chadd

[chadderuski]

Hey Chadderuski

Very happy made a script to make my import files into CSV with full downloadable product attributes .

Only thing I cant find is the option to turn on metatags in the config . Below is a list of the options in my Configuration >> Easypopulate 4 menu . Nothing seems to be useful for enabling meta tags.

Lovin EP4 !

Paul

Paul,

Which version do you have... latest is: Easy Populate 4.0.22 - Beta 6-10-2012

If you upgraded, did you do click un-install (on the right side of the EP4 Tools page) and then Install (to update configuration settings)??

You are missing a LOT of configuration options...

[chadderuski]

Think I'm having an Import Issue.
I'm transferring all my products from one store (1.3.9a) to my new store (1.5.1). Download from original store goes fine. I upload the CSV to the new store via EP4, which also goes ok. It's a large file, so I split it. Ends up splitting into 5 files. When I IMPORT the first of the split files, it appears to be running, but then goes from the EP4 screen to a blank screen. I let it run for a while, just in case it is still working in the background, but nothing ever happens.

Anyone have any ideas?

Howdy,

Do you have EP 4 installed on BOTH websites, or do you have 1.2.5.4 on the old site? What kind of hosting do you have? You may be getting a script time-out. Some shared hosting environments only give you a SHORT amount of script time.

Also, check your server for debug files... 1.3x had them in the cache folder, but 1.5x moved them to their own location...

[RFree190]

Howdy,

Do you have EP 4 installed on BOTH websites, or do you have 1.2.5.4 on the old site? What kind of hosting do you have? You may be getting a script time-out. Some shared hosting environments only give you a SHORT amount of script time.

Also, check your server for debug files... 1.3x had them in the cache folder, but 1.5x moved them to their own location...

Yes, EP4 on both sites.
Shared hosting on Hostgator. I think the memory_limit is set at 64M.
I don't see any debug files in my cache folder.

[chadderuski]

Yes, EP4 on both sites.
Shared hosting on Hostgator. I think the memory_limit is set at 64M.
I don't see any debug files in my cache folder.

Hmm... I just (yesterday) helped someone with a hostgator install. They had 11,000 records which I split into breaks of 4,000. These ran in about 20 seconds each. Not bad.

Here is something you may want to do: When importing LARGE amounts of data, go to Configuration -> Easy Populate 4 and set VERBOSE to OFF.

You DO NOT need EP to tell you that a record successfully imported. No sense in filling the HTML page with 4,000 lines of this. HOWEVER, even with VERBOSE OFF, you will still get ERROR printed to the screen so you'll know what they are.

Doing this will save you a VAST amount of memory and CPU time.

Let me know if this helps. Oh, also check your script execution time on the configuration page. Give it 60 seconds. You may need to check your php.ini setting for memory and execution time. A lot depends on how PHP is configured by your host.

Run time over-rides (like the one in configuration), and PHP.INI can still be trumped by core level php settings. You'd need terminal access to the server and an intimate knowledge of PHP to change settings here. I went through that with a person with 900,000 records... we broke these into 50K chunks and import went pretty smoothly after that.

-chadd

[outeredge2]

I see this is still being classed as in 'Beta' testing but has been for about 1.5yrs... Do you think a 'final' version will be released and put on to the add-on's site??

[Akaidu]

Howdies!

I'm currently using Zencart 1.5.0 and Easy Populate 4.0.22 - Beta 6-10-2012 to handle a CSV feed from a supplier, we've had issues in the past that're fixed now (for example, the first column in the CSV was read incorrectly fairly frequently), but a problem has arisen that I just can't fix.

The issue is that some products simply have no price listed despite the supplier providing them, though I did find that the offending products that I checked out weren't contained within the most recent CSV. This leads me to believe that during the importing the prices are being overwritten, and the products no longer in the CSV feed are obviously not receiving a v_products_price input with which to populate the database.

We'd be happy just having the products dropped if they're not on the feed, but the ideal solution would be to have stock set to 0 as opposed to price.

-Nathan

[ChadAustin]

Thank you Schoolboy... you were absolutely correct... the zencart 1.5 extra files I had missed... Thank you for the point in the right direction!

[CaptCuervo]

Capt,

Are you using a WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) package, and if so, which one?

I have not tested EP4 under WAMP, but I have used MAMP (I work mostly on the mac) before and it worked okay.

-chadd

No, everything was installed separately. I installed XAMPP and everything worked. Finally turned on error reporting in ZC and found the problem in the logs. Call to undefined function mb_internal_encoding(). PHP needs the mbstring extension installed (or compiled).

Thanks for the help

[ideasgirl]

Hi, this was a bit over a year ago.

Has been there any "Dual Pricing" development with EP4 since the Group Pricing per Item is an abandoned project today?

Have you checked your file to be sure you haven't listed a product twice at two different prices? What item number are you referring to? As I recall, you had quite a few errors in your data. Missing categories, duplicate entries... v_products_status was also not set.

At my count, you have 7 duplicate entries, and 85 records missing categories information...