Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

stevefriedman71:

Also see post 3231. He has the same issue.
It's like that. i updated my store and all products and categories are there. for the customer as well as for the admin section.
The customer can see and search just fine but when i try to find a product in the admin section - using the search - nothing shows up.
I basically have to try to find the product manually - that requires to know what category they are in and so forth.
Again, using search in the store is just fine, searching in admin doesn't work

I'm sorry. I'm unaware of this issues as related to EP. Perhaps searching main forum for "broken admin search" ...? I have not seen this behavior from EP.

it has to do w/EP. reason:
the store was working just fine. then, i had to exchange all products and used EP to create the products offline. uploaded the pix and EP file and the error was there.

stevefriedman71:

it has to do w/EP. reason:
the store was working just fine. then, i had to exchange all products and used EP to create the products offline. uploaded the pix and EP file and the error was there.

Steve,

Do you know how to use phpMyAdmin? Did you use the Database backup tool to make a full backup before uploading your new data? Did you work on a test version of your website before doing so on your live site?

If you do a full export and PM me with a link, I'll look at your data. You are using 1.2.5.4? Not some other version? Some of the other versions have "issues" ...

One thing to note, the ADMIN search and STORE FRONT search are not the exact same. There are differences, but I am not the right person to numerate them.
It may simply be a parameter.

Does your categories tree in the Admin work correctly? You don't have duplicate item numbers? Do you have any linked products?

-cj

scupoli:

What version of Easy Populate should I use? I don't understand why it is so difficult getting this contribution to work for everyone.

There is a $65.00 version floating around. Maybe that is why nobody wants to fix the free one.

No, Langer's EP 3.0 Advanced version has no support. He has not been "seen" for several years.

Several people have tried to update EP with varying results, often without fully testing the code and producing more or different problems than are in 1.2.5.4. Also, most of these attempts have been patches without truly understanding the underlying code. Others have fixed one thing only to break another. So in the
end most people "revert" back to 1.2.5.4 because it works.

If you read the wiki posted by schoolboy, and followed his instruction, you shouldn't have any problems.

There are two versions on github that you may be interested in. Though the one by jrobeson is not compatible with 1.3.9 and he has taken a very divergent path of late toward zenmagik. But you are welcome to try my "alpha" code:

https://github.com/chaddro/EasyPopulate-4.0

If you have any questions or problems, you'll have to pm me as I will not offer support on this forum until released and approved by the zencart team, and then only in it's own thread. I do not have a date to completion either as paid projects take precedent of free open-source ones. Hopefully I'll get some free time to finish and round out the attribute import, but I said that last year about this time!

-cj

Hi,
Does anyone knows how to Set "Call for Price" using Easy Populate?

Thanks

chadderuski:

I'm sorry. I'm unaware of this issues as related to EP. Perhaps searching main forum for "broken admin search" ...? I have not seen this behavior from EP.

I have the same problem.

I have Reset ALL Products Master Categories ID, etc, but I still can't find items that were added by EP.

The customers can see them but the Admin search doesn't see them. :lamo:

I did notice that if I go to the product I am looking, do a copy->duplicate then the duplicate item appears in the Admin search.

This does seem to be a problem with EP.

Anyone know?:frusty:

gal_op:

Hi,
Does anyone knows how to Set "Call for Price" using Easy Populate?

Thanks

As product_is_call is a field within the products table, it is possible to EDIT the easypopulate.php file to include this field in your Easy Populate activity.

Lankeeyankee explains how to ADD EXTRA PRODUCT FIELDS to the easypopulate.php file:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116061

Hi I am new to EP and have read almost everything I could get my hands on for EP. I for some reason can not get it to do anything at all. I do mean I can not get it to do anything. What am I doing wrong? I am running windows 7 with iis7 and php4. thanks.

I'm trying to install EP Free. I tried reading the install txt file several times. I used an auto-installer on my host to install zencart so I don't know the name of my admin directory. I assume its generic? I use https://www.mydomain.com/manage to get to the admin panel. What I did to install:
-uploaded temp folder to root directory (zencart is in root directory)
-uploaded easypopulate.php (located in install file > admin > easypopulate.php) to root directory
-uploaded all 4 files (box, functions, etc) in includes to the includes on my site

there is no easy populate under tools. what am i doing wrong?

gymangel812:

I'm trying to install EP Free. I tried reading the install txt file several times. I used an auto-installer on my host to install zencart so I don't know the name of my admin directory. I assume its generic? I use https://www.mydomain.com/manage to get to the admin panel. What I did to install:
-uploaded temp folder to root directory (zencart is in root directory)
-uploaded easypopulate.php (located in install file > admin > easypopulate.php) to root directory
-uploaded all 4 files (box, functions, etc) in includes to the includes on my site

there is no easy populate under tools. what am i doing wrong?

ok i've went through each of the admin folders to ensure the .php files are in my site (ie: admin\includes\boxes\extra_boxes has easypopulate_tools_dhtml.php in it). temp folder is in public_html folder. what am i missing?

gymangel812:

what am i doing wrong?

The answer is simple...

You are trying to manage your site in completely the wrong manner.

Learn how to use FTP and a proper plain text editor. Install a FTP program on your local machine. Use it for loading files.

Hi! Does anyone know if Easy Populate is able to handle Swedish language signs like å ä ö ???

//Jacob

Soniccc:

Hi! Does anyone know if Easy Populate is able to handle Swedish language signs like å ä ö ???

//Jacob

Technically, yes. But you should check the collation of your databases. If you use OpenOffice, and export your txt file (Save As "Text CSV") and then check "Edit Filter Settings" before pressing the save button, then you will get the option to choose your Character Set.

Perhaps the best way to test this is to add a test product with the charaters you need to support, export that via EP, and open with OO. USE OO and excel tends to mess things up my experience. Export from OO with a compatible character set (UTF-8?) and then re-import via EP.

Let us know how that worked.

Easypopulate stopped working.

I upload the cvs
It tells me it's uploaded, but doesn't show on screen that it's done any updates.
No products get updated or added.

Any idea as to what that could be?

Hey guys,

I need to be able to export a file to the temp folder, but i need the file to be the same name each time becuase I want it to be downloaded by ftp each day. FTP will be set to run at a specific time every day to download a file of a particular name.

I was looking in the admin/easypopulate.php file to see if there was somehting there to give me a clue as to how/where the filename is generated.

I found this line of code..

header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=$EXPORT_TIME.txt");

on line 1072, which gets its info from this..

	//$EXPORT_TIME=time();
	$EXPORT_TIME = strftime('%Y%b%d-%H%I');
	switch ($ep_dltype) {
		case 'full':
		$EXPORT_TIME = "Full-EP" . $EXPORT_TIME;
		break;
		case 'priceqty':
		$EXPORT_TIME = "PriceQty-EP" . $EXPORT_TIME;
		break;
		case 'category':
		$EXPORT_TIME = "Category-EP" . $EXPORT_TIME;
		break;
		case 'froogle':
		$EXPORT_TIME = "Froogle-EP" . $EXPORT_TIME;
		break;
		case 'attrib':
		$EXPORT_TIME = "Attributes-EP" . $EXPORT_TIME;
		break;
	}

online 1046 to 1064.

If I was to change $EXPORT_TIME = "Full-EP" . $EXPORT_TIME; to ```
$EXPORT_TIME = "myfilename";

would that work without screwing anything up.

Or am I way off the mark completly @@

Cheers

DB

K. Thanks, I'll try that!

chadderuski:

Technically, yes. But you should check the collation of your databases. If you use OpenOffice, and export your txt file (Save As "Text CSV") and then check "Edit Filter Settings" before pressing the save button, then you will get the option to choose your Character Set.

Perhaps the best way to test this is to add a test product with the charaters you need to support, export that via EP, and open with OO. USE OO and excel tends to mess things up my experience. Export from OO with a compatible character set (UTF-8?) and then re-import via EP.

Let us know how that worked.

Hi, been using easy populate for only a day now. Ive installed it fine and I populated my database once using it and everything went perfectly. But now when ever I try populate it again it doesn't work, when I upload the file it says that it has been uploaded successfully but nothing seems to upload when you go to the webpage!

Can anybody help me with this please?

Hi Niall058,

Ar eyou sure you are using the right file format.. EP 1.2.5.4 uses Tab Delimited .txt files. If you using a newer version of EP then you need to save your files as Comma Delimited .csv format.

Sometimes thats overlooked, so thought I woul dmention it.

If your still having trouble with it, download one the the newer versions of EP and install it. Make sure to change the temp directory name in ADMIN > CONFIGURATION > EASY POPULATE.

Another thing you shoudl check is the size of the file your trying to imort, if it has a ton of products in it, it may be taking a long time ro import and timing out.. Maybe break the file down into 2 files if this is the case.

OR... You could try using ftp to upload the file to the temp directory public_html/temp/ and import it from there by typing in the filename into the last input box on the EP page in admin.

Also, just to be on the safe side you could check th error logs and see if they can tell you anything.

For anyone wondering something similar, just do as below and that way you can edit the export file name to one of your choosing.. great if you need to have same file name all the time if linking with other scripts/programs.

:):lamo:

dropbop:

Hey guys,

I need to be able to export a file to the temp folder, but i need the file to be the same name each time becuase I want it to be downloaded by ftp each day. FTP will be set to run at a specific time every day to download a file of a particular name.

I was looking in the admin/easypopulate.php file to see if there was somehting there to give me a clue as to how/where the filename is generated.

I found this line of code..

header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=$EXPORT_TIME.txt");

> 
> on line 1072, which gets its info from this..
> 
> ```
	//$EXPORT_TIME=time();
	$EXPORT_TIME = strftime('%Y%b%d-%H%I');
	switch ($ep_dltype) {
		case 'full':
		$EXPORT_TIME = "Full-EP" . $EXPORT_TIME;
		break;
		case 'priceqty':
		$EXPORT_TIME = "PriceQty-EP" . $EXPORT_TIME;
		break;
		case 'category':
		$EXPORT_TIME = "Category-EP" . $EXPORT_TIME;
		break;
		case 'froogle':
		$EXPORT_TIME = "Froogle-EP" . $EXPORT_TIME;
		break;
		case 'attrib':
		$EXPORT_TIME = "Attributes-EP" . $EXPORT_TIME;
		break;
	}

online 1046 to 1064.

If I was to change $EXPORT_TIME = "Full-EP" . $EXPORT_TIME; to ```
$EXPORT_TIME = "myfilename";

> would that work without screwing anything up.
> 
> Or am I way off the mark completly @@
> 
> Cheers
> 
> DB

ZC v1.39H
ER v1.2.5.4

I updated my tab delimited txt file (excel '07). and saved the work I did (deleted 3 characters from a product description, that's it).
Uploaded to my host (temp/) and tried to import and insert via the admin panel.

I get this:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
After trying uploading a copy that I confirmed was good by using it on my local host I got the same result.

Debug file reads as follows:

[26-Feb-2011 15:55:35] PHP Warning: file(/home/seriouso/public_html/temp/SOPMasterv2) [<a href='function.file'>function.file</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/seriouso/public_html/SeriousAdmin/easypopulate.php on line 1201
[26-Feb-2011 15:55:35] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/seriouso/public_html/SeriousAdmin/easypopulate.php on line 1279

So I download a copy of the file and compared it to the same file on my PC, the two lines listed in the Debug report are identical.

So know i turn yo you good people for a compass, a mile marker, a Town Cryer......

What do I check next?