NEW: EasyPopulate Testers needed

[johnny2234343]

Hi folks, In the paste few months I had to make quite a few modifications to easypopulate. I took the easypopulate 1.2.5.7b and started from there. I'd like to share this mod and hopefully join with other collaborators in further improving it. I have problem introduced some bugs, so i'm looking for testers.

Here are some of the features I've added:

* Category/Manufacturer/Status filter for downloaded files (chadd)
* removal of lots of obsolete comments
* tons more todos
* quantity discounts (chadd)
* major UI cleanup, use semantic html throughout and tables for upload output data
* move all (except smart tags) configuration options to configuration GUI
* move smart tags/advanced smart tags settings to admin/includes/extra_datafiles/easypopulate_config.php
* add configuration option for detecting line endings on various operating systems
* add configuration option for set_time_limit/max_input_time
* subclass SplFileObject as EPUploadStandard for parsing the uploaded files
* replace the external directory listing code with a simpler table based listing via DirectoryIterator
* allow subclassing EPUploadStandard for various product list feeds
* feed parser for BNFUSA
* feed parser for PremierProducts
* feed parser for MegaGoods
* add configuration option for choosing default feed parser
* cleanup attributes upload/insert code to support attributes that don't start with 1
* add jquery from google cdn
* display a count of uploaded products
* cleanup upload results table display: use zebra striping, add background colors to headers
* Allow creation of meta keywords via placeholders in the input file (ex: {v_products_name_1},{v_categories_name_1})
* allow choosing the column delimiter and enclosure in the admin page (not just the config page)
* add an option to modify all prices in the uploaded file +/- a flat value or a percentage
* add an option to prefix the image path by another directory if you store the images in a subdirectory of images/
* add a database table for storing various upload feed preferences and last data insertion so we can handle items disappearing off the feed

Currently this requires php 5.2.2, but i think i can bring it back down to 5.1.3 if necessary.

Is anybody interesting in checking it out or working with me on it?

You can view the source and submit bugs/feature requests at
http://github.com/jrobeson/easypopulate

[johnny2234343]

oops.. that's probably .. not problem :)

[westcoastflipp]

Can you work these files into easypopulate?
Some company I'm using uploaded 40,000 products in like 1 hour.

I found these files they added to my server
xmlPopulate_zencart.php
xmlPopulate_zencart_db.php

[johnny2234343]

sure, post them somewhere publically accessible. I'd love to see them. It would need to be clear that they are GPLv2 tho :)

[michellewardley]

Just quickly as I haven't been able to find it in any posts, what is the keywords column name in easypopulate, (if it exists)
v_keywords?