Probably a stupid question...

Is it possible to download a database of the shop to work with offline when im working with over a thousand products it takes forever, and i've been using zen on my store for a year. love it though :)

Yes you can if you understand the structure of the database. Be sure to backup first!

For your products and categories yes. This is what Easy Populate does.

omg so many wasted hours. thanks very much i will look into it

useful link i found here, for easy populate, on the forums for anyone else thats still a novice

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,500

That's the osCommerce Easy Populate and very unlikely to work for Zen Cart. This is the Zen Cart Easy Populate.

thanks for that, i followed the link from someones topic on a another thread on here.

all installed yay :) can go to sleep now, nite all!

It seems to be working ok when i go into easypopulate from the admin

i get a note under the fields..

Import Data from file in temp/

Warning: dir(/home/wholesal/public_html/temp/) [function.dir]: failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/wholesal/public_html/admin/easypopulate.php on line 695

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/wholesal/public_html/admin/easypopulate.php on line 697

should i be concerned by this ^^

Did you read and, if necessary, act upon the first bullet point under the title "IMPORTANT!!!" in the install.txt file?

i didnt have this section in a file i downloaded EP_v2_75a_Zen-Cart_1_2

I'd throw that away. If you head back to the page from which you got it, it says> The file ep_v2_75_zen-cart_1_2.zip is the last version to be released by the previous contributor, and has some serious bugs (legacy code from the OsCommerce version). You are welcome to try it, but I will not support it. It does not work with php5, or register_globals=off, and has some severe data handling errors.You need the later version, available immediately below it, which works very well.

working fine now many thanks. im going to need to find some documentation to make sense of the .txt files it generates