Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

[dhanesh]

I used easy_populate free from langer modhole_v1-2-5-5.
All worked fine for me until when i uploaded the .txt data file to another cart.

All categories/products were impoted correcltly but when i switch to the french language none of them shows in the category tab.
But all of them shows in the all products,featured products link.
The category tab remains blank.

But all is working fine in English.

You can see through this link :http://lockdownsurveillance.com/

[credenscel]

I used easy_populate free from langer modhole_v1-2-5-5.
All worked fine for me until when i uploaded the .txt data file to another cart.

All categories/products were impoted correcltly but when i switch to the french language none of them shows in the category tab.
But all of them shows in the all products,featured products link.
The category tab remains blank.

But all is working fine in English.

You can see through this link :http://lockdownsurveillance.com/

would you please let me know where you got the 1.2.5.5. version?

[ben harry]

Can someone guide me in the right direction on how to use easy populate on the attributes, Basically i have edited all the descriptions and changed the price but the attributes were not included, so I seperatly downloaded the attributes but it didnt really make any sense to me. Thanks

[Jeff G]

... but when i switch to the french language none of them shows in the category tab.

But all is working fine in English.

I've read in the many posts in this thread about language problems. I do not use any other than english, but the upload code for languages is around line 1660 in easypopulate.php. It appears to be somewhat documented in the code.

Jeff

[Jeff G]

Can someone guide me in the right direction on how to use easy populate on the attributes, Basically i have edited all the descriptions and changed the price but the attributes were not included, so I seperatly downloaded the attributes but it didnt really make any sense to me. Thanks

I'm working on a site with lots of option names and values. I could not get it to work without heavy mods to the code.

My workable (for me) solution is 2 files. File 1 is everthing except the options. File 2 is only options.

You need to stop the main loop from updating when doing file 2. I did "if v_desc is null" type of thing.

I also put each option name/value combination on a separate line. So if a product has 4 options with 4 values each, I have 16 lines for that product in file 2. Code mods needed for this need to remove assumption that each line is not the only.

Some issues I have are when updating options. Currently no way to delete existing before creating new.

It was not a trivial task for someone that does not know php. Mostly trial and error.

Hope this gets you in the right direction.

Jeff

[jrf]

Hi - I am having the same problem as credenscel, above.

I created a new product type, a chemical, based on the book mod. Which works. I used the free EP to test load 5 items. Which worked. BUT altho they appear in the store, in admin/editproduct, the data does not appear, and I get this error:

Warning: reset() [function.reset]: Passed variable is not an array or object in /home/capralog/public_html/storefront/admin/includes/classes/object_info.php on line 29

Warning: Variable passed to each() is not an array or object in /home/capralog/public_html/storefront/admin/includes/classes/object_info.php on line 30

I changed, manually with phpadmin, the product type to be '7' which is what it is. (Easy populate brought them in as '1'.) Is there anywhere else that product type needs to be changed so these products appear in the edit screen?

[brettw]

Hi All,

The latest version from the downloads section is v1.2.5.5 is this ok for version 1.3.8?

Cheers

Brett

[dhanesh]

When i upload the EP file from another cart i get this message:

Warning: file(/home/lockdown/public_html/temp/Full-EP2008Oct03-0808.txt) [function.file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/lockdown/public_html/admin/easypopulate.php on line 1201

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/lockdown/public_html/admin/easypopulate.php on line 1301

Can anybody suggest why this happens?????

[jrf]

an almost-solution to my post, #1928, above.
The reason I was getting that error was because EasyPopulate does not add its products to the product-book-extra table.
(background: I made a new product type, not a book but based on the book product type info. Then I used EP to load the data. Products did show in the store, not in the back-end admin within the new product type page.) Reason was it was never loading in the collect_info.php program - because that file's SELECT statement failed because it was looking for data in product_book_extra - and lo - EP never wrote anything to there, of course, and nothing was there.

Because I'm not a php wizard, instead of modding EP to write even a product_id# to product_book_extra, I used phpadmin to load a csv file of the product-id's (generating that file by exporting it using phpadmin).
I hope this is somewhat clear and helps someone who is wondering why their custom product-type products aren't showing up in the admin edit product screen.

[credenscel]

would you PLEASE let me know how exactly you load a csv file to make EP work with alternate product types? I dont know how to create/load a csv file and your help will be much appreciated!

I am using music product type and have been looking for a solution for some time now.