EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

StevenMagnet:

I ended up getting the installation working, but I'm still getting the warning that my uploads folder is missing even after I change the directory.

What are the permissions set to on that new directory? (Just a thought.)

777. I also can't get export to actually do anything, though that might be related to the upload directory issue.

All has been working fine with EP4 until we tried to modify the price of the items and upload back to the site.

Edits were done using a plain text editor.

All items are updating EXCEPT the price field. This is the standard price field, v_products_price.

I'm pulling my last two hairs out trying to find out why. It worked earlier, but nothing I do now will get it to work again.:wacko:

Even used a fresh download from the site, just changed the price, and uploaded/inserted. No go.

Anyone have any ideas?

Not quite sure why, but I was able to create a list from the site, edit it using notepad++ (really nice plain text editor), and reupload it to the site. The changes took! The difference here was that I did NOT change the name of the file.

Earlier in this thread I saw mention of naming conventions. Can we get a better explanation as to what is required to upload as far as the names required and any other item that could cause a problem?

Originally, I had a problem with the name and location of the temp directory. Ended up putting it just off of the root directory. Once I did that it worked just fine. (I originally wanted to bury it a couple of layers deep to prevent it from being seen. Oh well.)

i can not open my easy populate 4.0,after i upload a 1 CSV file have 742 Products.i want more, but i can not load it again!:shocking::shocking:

How can i load the CSV file ,w/o admin page?:no:~

schoolboy:

Chad... changing the delimiter from COMMA to TAB is just a case of:

// CSV VARIABLES - need to make this configurable in the ADMIN
// $csv_delimiter = "\t"; // "\t" = tab AND "," = COMMA
$csv_delimiter = ","; // "\t" = tab AND "," = COMMA
$csv_enclosure = '"'; // chadd - i think you should always us the '"' for best compatibility

> 
> TO
> 
> ```php
// CSV VARIABLES - need to make this configurable in the ADMIN
$csv_delimiter = "\t"; // "\t" = tab AND "," = COMMA
// $csv_delimiter = ","; // "\t" = tab AND "," = COMMA
//$csv_enclosure   = '"'; // chadd - i think you should always us the '"' for best compatibility

Is that all that needs to be done?

Hiya Schoolboy!

Yes... BUT! You would need to carefully test everything. I 'believe' I was consistent in my use of $csv_delimiter, but you will also have to use $csv_enclosure. Remember I'm using fgetcsv(). I noticed some odd things with tabs, but it may have been because of the platform I was using.

-chadd

Ariffshah:

Hi Chad, this is my first time posting in zencart community. I have installed Easy Populate 4.0.19 - Beta 1-28-2012 safely and add some product in my category. This is my new zencart store and i have tried upload my 500 product into the database using 4.0 version.

The problem i'm having is data upload all but it appear in my admin only less than half. i check in my phpmyadmin, it only upload half.

Updated records: 461
New Imported records: 21
Errors Detected: 0
Warnings Detected: 14
Memory Usage: 3720348
Memory Peak: 3925776
Execution Time: 2.43897008896 seconds.

The updated records seems did not appear in my cart but updated. This is my second attempt try to upload full data into the database and failed.

Really need your advise why it can't fully upload although system said updated.

Thanks in advance.
Ariff

Hi Ariff,

I will need to look at you CSV file. You can PM that to me or attach a portion of the file that contains the problem product numbers. Also, which version of zencart are you using, and which character encoding are your databases (utf-8, iso-8859-1, etc.).

-chadd

algerdes:

Chad,

New to ZenCart, advised to get EP4 "The Chad Version", have read this complete thread. Downloaded EP4 from github, and have installed per instructions. :smile: All have gone very well, until we went to Tools->Easy Populate 4.

The stated version and date on this is: "Easy Populate 4.0.19 - Beta 1-28-2012". :dontgetit

Reading the thread shows a flurry of activity has happened since then. :lookaroun

Is the downloaded version actually up-to-date with your releases and just not marked correctly, or is there a better/newer version for download? :unsure:

4.0.19 is the current version of github. I will be updating hopefully this week. I was dreadfully sick since friday so I made no progress this weekend. 4.0.19 work fine, but does not have the new attribute features, plus I've added some more goodies that I hope are useful.

-chadd

estandard:

I got a fatal erro after i changed my host,The version worked fin in my old host,someone please help.

atal error: Call to undefined function mb_internal_encoding() in /home/...easypopulate_4.php on line 4

what can i do to solve this problem.Thank you very much

Find out what version of PHP you are on. It should be 5.3... if you are older than that then your host needs to upgrade. Support for 4.x is being discontinued by most hosting companies.

This function is needed to deal with importing utf-8 character encoding for multi-byte languages like Greek, Russian, etc.

-chadd

StevenMagnet:

I ended up getting the installation working, but I'm still getting the warning that my uploads folder is missing even after I change the directory.

You will get a different error notice if you don't have write permissions.

If you want your import folder to be: http://www.yoursite.com/temp

Then you would set this in your admin: Configuration -> Easy Populate 4
"Uploads Directory" = temp/

NOTE: this is not the same as = /temp/

algerdes:

Originally, I had a problem with the name and location of the temp directory. Ended up putting it just off of the root directory. Once I did that it worked just fine. (I originally wanted to bury it a couple of layers deep to prevent it from being seen. Oh well.)

You can bury it, but depending on the folder, you may have to modify your htaccess file to allow this. For example: If you want to put this in you admin directory, you will have to edit your htaccess file. There is a post earlier in this thread that explains how to do this.

-chadd

algerdes:

Not quite sure why, but I was able to create a list from the site, edit it using notepad++ (really nice plain text editor), and reupload it to the site. The changes took! The difference here was that I did NOT change the name of the file.

Earlier in this thread I saw mention of naming conventions. Can we get a better explanation as to what is required to upload as far as the names required and any other item that could cause a problem?

Yes, several import have naming conventions so the script knows how to handle the import file. If you keep the first part of the name:

Category-EP
CategoryMeta-EP
Full-EP
PriceBreaks-EP
PriceQty-EP
etc...

Yes, you need to match case (but I can loosen that restriction in a future update).

Hope that helps.

kan109:

i can not open my easy populate 4.0,after i upload a 1 CSV file have 742 Products.i want more, but i can not load it again!:shocking::shocking:

Send me a PM and I'll see what if I can help you off line.

Can you do an export/import without downloading the file. This will not change anything, but it will give you an "Updated" notification. If this doesn't work, then there is something wrong with your install.

-chadd

Thank you.
I hope you are feeling much better.
So the stated version discrepency is purely cosmetic. It does get one thinking.

I have more questions, but I'll wait till after today's exploratory surgery on my website. Perhaps I'll have more answers than questions after it.

Good information.
Thank you.

Attributes Update:

Turns out I had no brave souls to test the pre-release code, so I will be putting this out into the wild soon... hopefully this weekend.

However, wanted to give people a chance to voice what columns they would like for the basic import.

Remember, the basic import ties a products_model to an products_options_name with a set of { products_options_values_name }.
I have mult-language support working correctly.

What attributes settings are the MOST common. The detailed attribute sheet will work to set any value in the table. So I'm not going to substitute that (it will over complicate in the initial import).

So if you have some feedback, now is the time to speak up and I'll see what I can do.

Once the new attribute features pass muster, I'll take this out of beta and submit to zencart's team for inclusion here.

thanks!
chadd

We make extensive use of attributes, mostly Colors for our dresses. (Sizes we can usually just copy across a category from a dummy product.)

Do I have the latest? My zip is called chaddro-EasyPopulate-4.0-9773477

sph
https://www.prommart.com

Hi,

I'm using easypopulate 4.0 with zencart and it's working like a charm. But i have many many subcategories, and haven't found a way to use zencart to setup the image path for categories. Is this possible ? How ?