Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[SirBuck]

I recently installed Easy Populate Standard. When I checked out the mod website, it said that the latest version should work. However, there are only 2 available downloads and the most recent is from Jan2006.
Is there a more recent version of Standard?

My server is running PHP5 by the way.
The info on the website said that the PHP5 conflict was resolved, but on the download page it said it was not.

Any answers or help would be appreciated.
thanks in advance.

[fakeDecoy]

I've got tons of illegal characters in the description field of each item in the froogle feed file it creates, as reported by Google when I upload the file. I'm using version 1.2.5.4. Any suggestions? They're things like the trademark logo, dashes, quote marks, etc. I'm doing a find-and-replace on each one I find, but there are dozens and dozens of different illegal characters. Maybe a future feature in EP that'll replace the illegal characters with legal ones?

[kobra]

Maybe a future feature in EP that'll replace the illegal characters with legal ones?

Are you using the html escape's for these characters?

[dealbyethan.com]

Hi,

I would like to have different folders in /images folder so that when I add the picture of each brand from the admin, it goes directly to the respective folder. At the moment, all the pictures get added into /image folder by default and hence the folder is getting too big. I have figured out how to do this manually when adding a product. What if I want to do this in Easy Populate? At the moment, I only have to put in the picture filenames in the field called v_products_image and all the pictures will automatically go into /image folder. I want the pictures to go into /image/SUB_FOLDERS rather than the default directory. How do I do that please?

Please advise. Thanks in advance.

[fakeDecoy]

Are you using the html escape's for these characters?

No. The descriptions were copied from web pages, and instead of inserting the regular characters for punctuation it put in weird characters. If EP can't do it, then the next solution is to fix them in the database itself, but it would take an entire day or two for me to figure out where all those characters are.

[kobra]

No. The descriptions were copied from web pages

No laywer here, but you might be on the edge of copyright infringement with this.

Use the escape's for these to avoid this

[SirBuck]

Just a quick note if you are having problems running Easy Populate.

Set the permissions on the "TEMP" folder to 777 rather than 700.
This may clear up some errors for you.

[fakeDecoy]

No laywer here, but you might be on the edge of copyright infringement with this.

Use the escape's for these to avoid this

No, I'm not.

Is there at least an SQL statement that will replace all instances of a given character, such as '°' with ' degree', in the description field? I've spent some time looking at the mysql manual but can't find a way to update one part of a field instead of the whole field.

[fakeDecoy]

Update -

I've tried this command:

UPDATE zen_products_description SET products_description = replace(products_description,"°","°");

but phpmyadmin gives me some bogus error about an unclosed quote. I tried it with a different string instead of "°" that it wouldn't find, and it correctly executed. This tells me that mysql won't take the "°" character in a query. How, then, do I replace it? I need to change a lot of characters in this way to make them acceptable for Google Products.

[SirBuck]

Easy Populate shows up twice at the bottom of my Configuration menu..where do I get rid of the extra?