EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[Haggis]

OK, so here I go for another lambasting for being the thickest user.

I've uploaded EP4 and renamed the admin to match store name but not sure I have put it in the right place, when it says upload to admin I presumed that meant the zenadmin | all uploaded in its own directory EasyPopulate-4.0-master

is this the right path to use

[DrByte]

OK, so here I go for another lambasting for being the thickest user.

I've uploaded EP4 and renamed the admin to match store name but not sure I have put it in the right place, when it says upload to admin I presumed that meant the zenadmin | all uploaded in its own directory EasyPopulate-4.0-master

is this the right path to use

No.

Almost all plugins (actually "all" as long as they're written consistently) have a set of directories that correspond to the existing directories in your Zen Cart site.

So the easy-populate40-master/admin folder contains the files that you would add to your /admin (or renamed admin) directory.
And likewise most of the easypopulate40-master/whatever files and folders would go in your / (main, no subdirectory) directory.

[mc12345678]

OK, so here I go for another lambasting for being the thickest user.

I've uploaded EP4 and renamed the admin to match store name but not sure I have put it in the right place, when it says upload to admin I presumed that meant the zenadmin | all uploaded in its own directory EasyPopulate-4.0-master

is this the right path to use

Two other ways to look at it is:
1) the files easypopulate_4.php, easypopulate_4_import.php, easypopulate_4_export.php etc. Are in the same admin directory as files like orders.php, option_names.php, attributes_controller.php, etc.... from that location, the other folders should already exist.

The second way to view it is that the files to operate EP4 are placed in the folder that is used to access your admin from the Web. So if you had to type in https: // yourdomain. com / directory1/directory2/mysecretadmin to get to your admin, then the files in the admin directory of the download would go into that directory without modification of the file/folder structure of the remaining downloaded items.

[Haggis]

No.

Almost all plugins (actually "all" as long as they're written consistently) have a set of directories that correspond to the existing directories in your Zen Cart site.

So the easy-populate40-master/admin folder contains the files that you would add to your /admin (or renamed admin) directory.
And likewise most of the easypopulate40-master/whatever files and folders would go in your / (main, no subdirectory) directory.

I think I'm more confused by your answer than I was before.

Do the EP4 files all go into their own directory within the path named zenadmin/whatever-your-plugin-is-called/your-store-name-here

or something different to that

[Haggis]

I think I'm more confused by your answer than I was before.

Do the EP4 files all go into their own directory within the path named zenadmin/whatever-your-plugin-is-called/your-store-name-here

or something different to that

public_html/STORENAMEHERE/zenadmin/EasyPopulate-4.0-master

[DrByte]

To use your example, the files from EasyPopulate-4.0-master/ go into public_html/STORENAMEHERE/
And, since you must account for whatever you've renamed your admin to (you used zenadmin here), the EasyPopulate-4.0-master/admin files go into public_html/STORENAMEHERE/zenadmin/

[Haggis]

I think that's where I have them, if you look at the images I have attached above, then I renamed the directory called admin contained within EP4 to match the store name.

Is that where I have gone wrong because nothing shows up in zen CP under tools

[DrByte]

I think that's where I have them, if you look at the images I have attached above, then I renamed the directory called admin contained within EP4 to match the store name.

I can't understand your images.

Is easypopulate_4.php at STORENAMEHERE/zenadmin/easypopulate_4.php ?
If not, then you're putting things in the wrong place.

Is that where I have gone wrong because nothing shows up in zen CP under tools

If the files are copied into the correct places, then the menu option will be automatically installed.


The EP plugin is no different than the majority of other plugins: its directory structure mimics your own Zen Cart structure, with its files already placed in the directories where you're supposed to copy them to inside your own store.

[Haggis]

The steps I have taken

downloaded zip file, unpacked, then uploaded into the zencart directory which is called zenadmin. I have checked 3x and all files in the zip file are matched exactly on cpanel.

So now the question becomes what have I done wrong. I have tried four option, none of which have woked so far.

1. uploading the unpacked files into their own subdirectory called EasyPopulate-4.0-master within zenadmin, and then renamed the file from EP4 which was called admin to match store name

2. as 1. above except left the same admin file without renaming.

3. uploaded the unpacked files directly into zenadmin without creating a subdirectory EasyPopulate-4.0-master and then renamed the file from EP4 which was called admin to match store name.

4. as 3. above except left the same admin file without renaming.

so since nothing shows in zenadmin cp under tools, I have done something wrong but cannot workout what it is.

[Haggis]

this is the file structure when unpacked from the zip file and uploaded to zenadmin directory in exactly the same way as it came

\zenadmin\EasyPopulate-4.0-master\admin
\zenadmin\EasyPopulate-4.0-master\examples
\zenadmin\EasyPopulate-4.0-master\htaccess4AdminTempFolder

the easypopulate_4.php file is within the admin directory listed above