Minor grammar and punctuation repairs

Not sure where your how or if you want, but after setting up a new v1.55 zen-cart I noticed and corrected several grammar and punctuation problems with the gv_faq.php file. I would be happy to share the corrected version of this file with whoever would like a copy. I will attempt attaching the file here. It should be a simple drop into replace /<zc_install_folder>/includes/languages/english/gv_faq.php

As I said, it's mostly adding and removing or moving commas, a couple typos corrected, and a few sentence structure corrections.

On another subject, I've been "messing with" zen cart for something like 15+ years now. In that time I've found much to be annoyed about, but I have to say that once it's all setup and working it's a great shopping cart program. And while it's a bit confusing, the templating design is really awesome. Allowing the complete replacement of files with customization without removing or changing the original files is very cool. I guess the most annoying thing is when I want to set up something really simple I will have a lot of settings and config to deal with, but if I just put my head down and do it I end up with a good working cart in the end. Thanks to all who contribute to Zen Cart and the wonderful people in this forum who help when I can't remember how to do something I did 2 years ago. :-)

I think it would be cool to have "Lite" versions of zen for specific kinds of carts. For Example, Like a digital products only cart. No shipping modules needed and some kind of easy .CSV import/export for adding product. (sorry, but ez populate just doesn't cut it)

Anyway, thanks for listening and hope the attached file is useful.

Above you mentioned some version of ez populate.

Could you explain what you envision would make such an upload easier and/or what you find doesn't cut it?

mc12345678:

Above you mentioned some version of ez populate.

Could you explain what you envision would make such an upload easier and/or what you find doesn't cut it?

Recently while setting up a digital product only shopping cart I attempted to use EZ populate to add the product. 133 PDFs that were already all defined in a different products database. There was no way that I could find for me to NOT have to edit each product for one thing or another. I ended up using EZ populate to upload the product titles, model, description, price, and image filename. But when I looked at the option/attribute upload file there was no association to products. So I could upload the one attribute and it's option name, but since there wasn't a way to associate product to option I had no way of indicating and uploading the names of the files associated with each of the digital products. So while EZ Populate did make it a little easier it just isn't a complete solution. And maybe it's just too complex of a problem to solve. It took several days of opening one product at a time to add the download option and specify the download file name.

While on the topic, I've also used EZ Populate to attempt to update product prices on a larger site that had a lot of old products defined but with their status set to be not available. After uploading new pricing for all of the currently active products I ended up with all the inactive products having their status updated to be active. Even though I didn't have any records in my CSV file for any of those products. So EZ Populate was making changes to products it had no business changing.

Over the years of using the various versons of EZ Populate, my memory is that I always end up doing quite a bit of manual labor either fixing things EZ Populate did when it should not have or doing things that EZ Populate should have done but either didn't or couldn't. So I have a love hate relationship with it. :-)

What I'd really like is a program that I could install on my workstation that would present my online store database to me similar to how a spreadsheet might show it. Allow me to edit either in this line list or as a data form. Allow me to "paste" in rows and or columns of data or make global find and replace operations. I'm just so used to using spreadsheets to move product information around that working with the product data in Zens' admin area is tedious by comparison.

For myself and others, could you possibly identify which ez populates you used/tried?

I am aware of a version that I believe addresses all of the concerns expressed and doesn't have the "reactivate" issues identified (which is appalling to think that something would do such a global revision as it should only touch those items involved in the upload/import).

It is interesting to see the suggested improvements when there are others that would just like to have the bare bones of the data and no amplifying human "readable" information.

lynbor:

Not sure where your how or if you want, but after setting up a new v1.55 zen-cart I noticed and corrected several grammar and punctuation problems with the gv_faq.php file. I would be happy to share the corrected version of this file with whoever would like a copy. I will attempt attaching the file here. It should be a simple drop into replace /<zc_install_folder>/includes/languages/english/gv_faq.php

As I said, it's mostly adding and removing or moving commas, a couple typos corrected, and a few sentence structure corrections.Thanks. Appreciated.

lynbor:

On another subject, I've been "messing with" zen cart for something like 15+ years now. In that time I've found much to be annoyed about, but I have to say that once it's all setup and working it's a great shopping cart program. And while it's a bit confusing, the templating design is really awesome. Allowing the complete replacement of files with customization without removing or changing the original files is very cool. I guess the most annoying thing is when I want to set up something really simple I will have a lot of settings and config to deal with, but if I just put my head down and do it I end up with a good working cart in the end. Thanks to all who contribute to Zen Cart and the wonderful people in this forum who help when I can't remember how to do something I did 2 years ago. :-)Cool. The feedback is appreciated.

lynbor:

I think it would be cool to have "Lite" versions of zen for specific kinds of carts. For Example, Like a digital products only cart. No shipping modules neededActually it already works like that out-of-the-box. Digital products already bypass shipping.

lynbor:

and some kind of easy .CSV import/export for adding product. (sorry, but ez populate just doesn't cut it)
I see you're already engaged in discussion about this.