EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[Kevin205]

Hello Chad – I have created 2 user defined fields using the How to add new product fields? thread from
http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...Product-Fields

The fields are created in a table called products_extra_stuff.

Even though I am adding the 2 field names under admin>Configuration>Easy Populate 4 User Defined Products Fields(separated with commas, no spaces), they are defined as false under admin>Tools>Easy Populate 4.

Is there something that I have missed? Or should I be adding something else to EP4 code or this is not possible with EP4?

Really need this to upload data.

[chadderuski]

Hello Chad – I have created 2 user defined fields using the How to add new product fields? thread from
http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...Product-Fields

The fields are created in a table called products_extra_stuff.

Even though I am adding the 2 field names under admin>Configuration>Easy Populate 4 User Defined Products Fields(separated with commas, no spaces), they are defined as false under admin>Tools>Easy Populate 4.

Is there something that I have missed? Or should I be adding something else to EP4 code or this is not possible with EP4?

Really need this to upload data.

Kevin,

User defined PRODUCTS fields only apply to the PRODUCTS table. Can you put those fields in the products table? If you do that, it will work.

NOW, if you brave and want to dive into the code, it shouldn't be TOO hard to follow the my lead. The next release of EP4 (crosses fingers) will have this more simplified. I moved all the custom stuff to user defined fields.

-chadd

[Kevin205]

Thanks for the prompt reply.

When would the next version be out?

Any lead into where to start diving would be greatly appreciated.

ps. everyone says try to keep any additional fields away from the core tables. That's why I chose to create a new table!

[chadderuski]

Thanks for the prompt reply.

When would the next version be out?

Any lead into where to start diving would be greatly appreciated.

ps. everyone says try to keep any additional fields away from the core tables. That's why I chose to create a new table!

Well... you don't HAVE to follow that advice. For coding changes, be sure to use the over rides, but if you are simply adding a couple fields that are very specific to the products data, put them in the PRODUCTS database. Things will be MUCH simpler, you'll have fewer SQL requests, and actually LESS core modifications.

Next version? Weeks... Months? Depends on my work load and if I can get some free time. Next version will be submitted to the zencart downloads, so I want to be sure it's solid and well documented.

-chadd

[Kevin205]

That's exactly what I did.

Thank you. Chad

[MaartenJ]

Thanks for the great software. I used to use an old version of Easy Populate on an old store. I'm setting up a new store at the moment and this version of Easy Populate is Looking very promising! MUCH MUCH faster. A lot less memory usage on my VPS.

Will test it out tomorrow! Thanks already for ALL your work. I program a lot of stuff in my freetime and I know how much work a project like this is. You are a blessing for the community!