Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

I might add that there are at least two contributions that should be added to most stores (in my humble opinion). The first is the "Backups for Zen Cart" (allows MYsql database backups from your admin tool dropdown) and "Save Your Sidebox Layout" (keeps your layout as it is when you save it - in case you upgrade to the latest version of Zen Cart).

Dennis
www.stampdays.com
(An OSC site soon to be Zenned):smartalec:

tj1:

This is an issue I experience on one my sites. I'm really not sure what causes it, probably some sort of configuration by the host, or some other thing, I never got an answer either. Something to do with php.ini files I think.

I should make clear that I only have this issue on a site that has been upgraded with each new ZC release. I don't have this issue with new ZC installations.

Even though the browser times out, easypopulate does what it's supposed to do, although of course, you don't get any notification of what it just did, but it works.

I thought that might be the case here since my installation was 10 months old and the EP worked OK until I upgraded it to 3.7.1 but now I am not sure. I did a fresh install and the EP worked great until I uploaded the EP data from the old install to the new install. The full download did upload and it did show a few delimiter errors generated on line 241 of the functions php (something about an explode of excel_$date). After upload was complete and it showed all 39+ K lines, I tried to upload a one line file and it timed out again. Same thing as before, I get no confirmation on that file. It may be because my db is 150+ categories and almost 40k products (it's a clone of my OSC site) but I don't quite understand why everything works fine on OSC but not on Zen. Especially since the original huge file did give a confirmation (and the errors generated) Leads me to think that maybe a parameter is cockney on the later or is getting reset after the initial use. Don't want to knit-pick, but knowing the if's and what's that EP did or didn't do, could be helpful.

I emailed the author of this mod for before-sale question and never got any reply, so I figure out I'd better not spending any money on something that I will never get any support.

Hi, I'm a newbie trying to figure out how to work w/ both EP & Image Handler.

Problem:

Unlike the basic ZC template which stores all product images in the "Images" folder, IH stores my images into the bmz_cache folders it installed, and gives them random (and very long) image names, making me wonder how I'm supposed to upload batch images using EP into an image folder accessible by my delimited EP file.

How does one go about combining these two modules for streamlined image uploading? :dontgetit

Please help!

Thanks in advance,

Alice

bluealice:

Hi, I'm a newbie trying to figure out how to work w/ both EP & Image Handler.

Problem:

Unlike the basic ZC template which stores all product images in the "Images" folder, IH stores my images into the bmz_cache folders it installed, and gives them random (and very long) image names, making me wonder how I'm supposed to upload batch images using EP into an image folder accessible by my delimited EP file.

How does one go about combining these two modules for streamlined image uploading? :dontgetit

Please help!

Thanks in advance,

Alice

Hi Alice,

Those file names are generated by IH2. You call your images whatever you like and upload them using EP, The IH2 then does it's thing transparently (it never really changes any image files as it's just a renamed copy that you see). Hope this answers your question!

Dennis
www.stampdays.com

Hello! Need some help here. I am using the latest version of ZC and EP. Had help from Nicholas to install EP.

I need some very, very basic instruction.

I saved the store download to my desktop. I opened it with OpenOffice Calc as a tab delimited file. everything looks good.

I need to move nearly 900 items into existing categories. Right now they are in a misc. category.

I changed the category name of two items then saved my file, (same tab-delimited format) and uploaded the file. I checked the two items to see if they showed up in their new home category and they did not. They have not moved.

What have I done wrong? When I download the store again, my changes do not appear in the new text file.

Can someone explain what I did wrong?

Thanks

I forgot to mention that I have EPA (Easy Populate Advanced) not EP and my upload reported as successful. Totally lost here.

Who can help me?

peppyone:

Hello! Need some help here. I am using the latest version of ZC and EP. Had help from Nicholas to install EP.

I need some very, very basic instruction.

I saved the store download to my desktop. I opened it with OpenOffice Calc as a tab delimited file. everything looks good.

I need to move nearly 900 items into existing categories. Right now they are in a misc. category.

I changed the category name of two items then saved my file, (same tab-delimited format) and uploaded the file. I checked the two items to see if they showed up in their new home category and they did not. They have not moved.

What have I done wrong? When I download the store again, my changes do not appear in the new text file.

Can someone explain what I did wrong?

Thanks

Hello PeppyOne,
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, yet I seem to be the one responding first. We don't support the paid version of EP (known as Easy Populate Advanced[EPA]) here, as the code is not readily available to look at, or modify. You will need to seek help from where you purchased it, or have them direct you to the correct place for help, if you didn't purchase it directly from the publisher.

Now the good news. Most likely EPA created a link, and you could check by looking in your store front. You may have to clear your browser's cache first. Worst comes to worst then remove everything from your store (items, not mods or add-ons), then use the revised file to upload everything to the correct categories.

Hi,

I've got zencart running and easy populate installed. I've successfully uploaded small sample .cvs files provided with no problem but whenever I try to do this with my own inventory it simply does not load.

I'm not getting any errors just an empty site. I've taken an existing spreadsheet file that works and just replaced the various columns with my own data. When I go to save it it questions how I want the columns seperated and what kind of quotes I want to use as well.

I think this is maybe where it's going wrong. I'm using OpenOffice. I'll include both the spreadsheet and the .cvs file I save it as. Driving me nuts.

Thanks for any help.

If your file is too big and contains too many data, EP may take more time to finish it. And usually the default maximum execution time of a script is 30s, so it can just time-out while running, leaving you with a blank page. EP readme file should metion somewhere how to set the time limit.

Hi Yellow..

No it shows that the file is uploaded within about 10 seconds at most. I've been wrestling with this all afternoon.

Thanks

robinstl:

Hi Yellow..

No it shows that the file is uploaded within about 10 seconds at most. I've been wrestling with this all afternoon.

Thanks

The way I was saving it was the problem. I chose just to seperate by 'tab' and no quotes and it works.

awev,

You are a dear. Thanks for letting me know. I will see what I can do on the other end. I did purchase this from the publisher directly.

I have read that EP does not help with moving products from one category to another and so this is why I got EPA. It does.

My error as I see it now is I did an upload to the uploads directory and not the database. -------> EPA novice here. <----------

so when I did the import to the database, all went well except for the two test products I was trying to move. arrrrrrgh! It is not enough to simply change the category name. you need a path? Holy cow! what path?

awev:

Hello PeppyOne,
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, yet I seem to be the one responding first. We don't support the paid version of EP (known as Easy Populate Advanced[EPA]) here, as the code is not readily available to look at, or modify. You will need to seek help from where you purchased it, or have them direct you to the correct place for help, if you didn't purchase it directly from the publisher.

Now the good news. Most likely EPA created a link, and you could check by looking in your store front. You may have to clear your browser's cache first. Worst comes to worst then remove everything from your store (items, not mods or add-ons), then use the revised file to upload everything to the correct categories.

Hello again PeppyOne,
I think I found a link for you. It is http://www.zencartbuilder.com/support/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&id=10
I can read the general forums, yet as I have not purchased the module I can't log into the support area, which is where the link leads to. Also, I don't have a copy of the manual/documentation :( From what I did see, and it was very limited, it looks as if the path is the cpath, what is coposed of category number and item number.

Far be it from me to deny someone an opportunity to make a buck, but I thought the whole idea behind open source was to keep it free. Why is EPA even mentioned on this forum??? It is not open source as the person who modified the original script decided to charge for his work. If I were the among the "powers that be", I would remove every post that hinted at or mentioned EPA and I would also ban the writer from posting on this site.***** Call me a hard case if you will, but open source means just that!

Why give free advertising to this "Not So Community Minded Individual"?

***** Unless, of course, he is one of those powers. If so, then I am probably in deep dodo for posting this reply. :yuck:

ZC is open-source, that does not mean all add-on products written for it must also be open source.
EP does have a free version though, and buying the paid version or not is your decision.

Yep! you are hard nosed alright. I had no idea that EPA was not also part of this discussion. It was explained gently and since I understand now I will not get the support I need here, I won't return.

I do hope you are spoken to more gently and are "NOT BANNED" if you should ever make a mistake. Of course you probably don't make mistakes or have misunderstandings.

There are lots of very nice, friendly folks around here in the forums. Of course there are always exceptions.

awhfy99:

Far be it from me to deny someone an opportunity to make a buck, but I thought the whole idea behind open source was to keep it free. Why is EPA even mentioned on this forum??? It is not open source as the person who modified the original script decided to charge for his work. If I were the among the "powers that be", I would remove every post that hinted at or mentioned EPA and I would also ban the writer from posting on this site.***** Call me a hard case if you will, but open source means just that!

Why give free advertising to this "Not So Community Minded Individual"?

***** Unless, of course, he is one of those powers. If so, then I am probably in deep dodo for posting this reply. :yuck:

Sorry PeppyOne,
Do stop by from time to time. The exchange of information is always good. And you are always welcome to ask a question. Just understand the limits we have in answering something related to only EPA.

peppyone:

Yep! you are hard nosed alright. I had no idea that EPA was not also part of this discussion. It was explained gently and since I understand now I will not get the support I need here, I won't return.

I do hope you are spoken to more gently and are "NOT BANNED" if you should ever make a mistake. Of course you probably don't make mistakes or have misunderstandings.

There are lots of very nice, friendly folks around here in the forums. Of course there are always exceptions.

:hug: Sorry Peppyone, that jab was not meant to go your way. You just happened to tweek a knob with me on that issue. I am all for open source and I take issue will developers exploiting it, not with the buyers who need the features and don't have the skills to develope it for themselves. Guess I am not used to someone taking my rantings so personally, but I don't recall mentioning your name in my outburst at all. Set back, drink a wine cooler, and relax, life is too short to take everything I say seriously!

I would bet that the EPA person is not the original programmer who wrote the EP module (the license says it is open source), and therefore had dibs on it. If every module ever written (or reworked) had a pricetag, there would be no such thing as Zen Cart or osCommerce.

We all would be paying top dollar if we wanted a decent website (like the eCommerce people would love to us do)! Come to think of it, someone could do the same with a multi-product stand-alone (of course the mod in osCommerce wouldn't be of any use at all). It could be it coded and licensed all nice and legal, and I bet they could sell the heck out of it. I am nearly positive that he/she would share the revenue with the original coders, too (right)! Really would help this community, wouldn't it! Maybe a few might benifit from its' use, but not as much as it would help line the pockets of the person who did it. Enough said, I am off of this bandwagon!!

Hi Guys.
I have my document (spreadsheet) ready to upload over 1500 items to the cart. BUT, there is a column in this spreadsheet that is used to calculate the price, Easy Populate is erroring when i try to do the import because of this column. Is there anyway of hideing this column from easy populate, yet keep it in the spreadsheet so that the pricing is right.

Many Thanks,
Steve
https://www.steve.com.au