Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[Jeff G]

I have looked in the download section but cant find owt that says Easy Populate??

At top of this page click "free software add ons". Then search for "easy populate free from langer". DO NOT use the one from OSC.

I just saw your new post after writing this. It sounds like you might have missed a step. You must create the "temp" folder at the root of your store (same level as admin/includes/images/etc.)
Jeff

[Jeff G]

For the record, I was able to address this issue:
I still need some help with this one outstanding issue though:

I think you have the right solution for issue 2. One thing though, I don't know sql that well, but based on you solution I assume % is a wild card. If thats the case, wouldn't you just want it on the end?

For issue 1: ZC does not support images that are not local to the site, so this will not work. If you only want images on the product info page, and don't care about listing/featured/special/etc, you can add an <a href=...> to your product description.

Jeff

[Jeff G]

On the image link issue,

Several (at least you and one other ) people have asked about doing this. If someone is pretty good at php, it would probably not be too difficult to write a program that reads a list of image URLs and copies them to your local drive or image folder.

Might be some legal issues there though.

Just a thought.

Jeff

[Jeff_Mash]

Thanks for the comments. As for the image thing, this was addressed before right here: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...age#post514583

So what I have done is contacted the company from which I am importing their products, and they are going to send me a DVD with all their images on it. That way, I can simply upload them all to my images directory, and then run the EP program on there to insert all the items.

Thanks again for the help!

[misty]

At top of this page click "free software add ons". Then search for "easy populate free from langer". DO NOT use the one from OSC.
Jeff

Or download Langer's release version 1.2.5.4 from his site at
http://modhole.com/modhole/index.php...11034d58f7ea8d

[credenscel]

credenscel,

From your post it sounds like you changed the default of products_id, not products_type. Products_id should not be in the EP file. It is either found by EP when updating, or assigned automatically for new product.
Give that a check.

Jeff

Jeff,
Below is the image showing what i am changing am i doing it wrong? please let me know

[Jeff G]

I don't see any changes in the image. The second line reads "products_type" with a default of "1". Change the default to "2".

Also, I think I mentioned this before - there are several files for music that make using the music type meaningful. Unless you mod EP to update those files, I don't think you gain anything by changing to type music.

[credenscel]

yes, i am setting it to ID 2. It doesnt work.

At this point i dont know how else i can tweak this. If anyone can help figure out a solution for EP to work for music products please let me know i'm willing to pay for your efforts.

[Jeff G]

In software work, language is very important.
You refer to "ID 2". Is that what you are doing? Or did you mean something else?
We never discussed ID. You should not be doing anything with ID.

[credenscel]

sorry i mean i am switching 1 to 2. not product id. but the product type.