Auction Lister Pro (ALP) Support

Hi David,

Thanks for this great mod! I installed it and it works great! For some reason, though, the ebay.config file was completely commented out and thus none of the key adn token settings stuck. This was easy to fix by uncommenteing and adding the correct info and re-uploading. I listed my first auction with only a minor hitch of the image file default showing http:/ instead of http:// which is no biggie to manually change until I figure out which file to modify. :smile:

My hat is off to you for creating such a big app on your first go!! I am impressed and encouraged to keep learning as much as I can so that I too can contribute.

My question is about ebay Stores, I didn't see an option to list my items in my store and just wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing anything. If it's currently not available is it a matter of making it an extra option to go with the other sale types in the dropdown box or is there more to it to make it list in an ebay store? Is this something that you plan on including in a future version? The vast majority of my items go in my ebay store.

If you need a tester for the next release I am more than happy to help out in any way that I can. I'm good at breaking things. :D And I will help do whatever my meager skills will allow, even if it's just proofing or helping to write the docs, or whatever. Just let me know, you can pm me if you want to get into more details.

Thanks again!!

Matt

Thanks Matt,

By default eBay will assign all of your auction items to category "Other" on your store if you have one.

In order to make store support work fully, there would need to be a mapping between your Zen Cart store category and your eBay stores category.

This of course would be best done with databases. It should be possible to pull all of your categories down into the database using GetStore and then manually matching those up to your categories in Zen. Another way it could be done is to match them up based on category names. This way you wouldn't have to fool with matching numbers. A simple select "candles" from both tables would be able to pull the category ID # you need for the eBay category.

Once you have the category ID number for your store on eBay you would simply assign that number to CategoryID and send it to the store with your information.

If you are learning PHP this is a good application to get your feet wet if you want to build something like this.

Is anyone available to assist with setting up ALP? We have it installed and running, but an error* is still occurring.

Unfortunately, we're getting no response from the program's support personnel, and we'd like to get the program operational soon, so if you know an independent developer who's able to assist (or if you're running it successfully and willing to help), please contact me.

• The following error occurs when attempting to select a category. FYI, the list was apparently imported correctly with ~25,000(?) items added.

Get Categories
Fatal error: Call to undefined method EbatNs_ResponseError::getCategoryVersion() in .../public_html/alp/getCategoriesSQL.php on line 65

Kevin

Please disregard my earlier request for help. I was able to track down the problem and get the category list to display.

However, the **eBay Motors **categories do not appear in the list. Is that correct? If so, any idea when it might be remedied -- or is there a workaround?

Kevin

David,
What do the following represent:

**[ListingType] => Chinese

[PayPalEmailAddress] => [email protected]

[attributeValues] => Array

[MerchandizingPref] => OptIn
[SellerLevel] => None**

They are just a few I don't understand when I view one of the auctions. I'm just looking for basic descriptions for them, if you could.

Any ETA on when this program can be used Live?

Thank you,
Steve

kevinwill:

Please disregard my earlier request for help. I was able to track down the problem and get the category list to display.

However, the **eBay Motors **categories do not appear in the list. Is that correct? If so, any idea when it might be remedied -- or is there a workaround?

Kevin

How did you get the list to display, because I am having the same problem

supersnow:

How did you get the list to display, because I am having the same problem

I found it to be the Sandbox/Production setting on line 30 in /alp/includes/config/ebay.config.php.

It was set to 1 by default, and I simply changed it to 0.

Line 28: //Select Sandbox or production
Line 29: ;1 => sandbox, 0 => production
Line 30: app-mode = 0

Of course, if you're running in Sandbox, this probably won't help.

Kevin

I have installed and got this to work - so great job for such a great mod. But maybe I have missed something. It doesn't give me the option to do Store inventory listings on Ebay and the longest duration is 10 days.

We have a Ebay store (just setup) and I was looking at the different listing options for stores and the description of store inventory is really what we want. But through the ALP I can't see how I can use this listing option.

**Store Inventory **You list your items at a set price, so buyers can purchase immediately (no bidding). These listings have longer durations with limited visibility compared to Online Auction and Fixed Price formats. - >

• 30 days

• Good 'Til Cancelled - Renews automatically every 30 days until the item sells or you end the listing. Insertion fees charged every 30 day period.

Can someone let me know is this something I have missed or is it just not available yet.

I'm getting this error after otherwise successful installation and eBay setup:

**1146 - Table '(database prefix)_alp.configuration' doesn't exist

select configuration_key as cfgKey, configuration_value as cfgValue from configuration

**Any suggestions to get this up and running?

I have installed auction list pro and this is the erro im getting when i click on admin tools. how can I fix this

1146 - Table 'xxxxx_xxxxx.configuration' doesn't exist

select configuration_key as cfgKey, configuration_value as cfgValue from configuration

[TEP STOP]

Thanks:huh:

6. Make sure you specify your shopping cart's database when it asks you for database info.

Could this be my problem to this error. I create a new database Info. Should I be using my zen cart database info

This is the error

1146 - Table 'linksu2_ebay.configuration' doesn't exist

select configuration_key as cfgKey, configuration_value as cfgValue from configuration

[TEP STOP]

Thanks For the help :D

whatsup:

6. Make sure you specify your shopping cart's database when it asks you for database info.

Could this be my problem to this error. I create a new database Info. Should I be using my zen cart database info

This is the error

1146 - Table 'linksu2_ebay.configuration' doesn't exist

select configuration_key as cfgKey, configuration_value as cfgValue from configuration

[TEP STOP]

Thanks For the help :D

To Fix this go to alp/includes/database_tables.php and change this...

// define the database table names used in the project
define('DB_PREFIX', ''); 

to this...

// define the database table names used in the project
define('DB_PREFIX', 'YOUR PREFIX'); 

YOUR PREFIX being whatever prefix you have assigned for your zen database, such as zen_

Matt

I am looking for a way to list on ebay where my products are encased in a template which looks the same as my shop, ie, header, footer, left & right columns & same colours etc...

Will this mod do this or does it only populate the products?

Thankyou for any help!

Kate,

You can save your auction item templates for each product using this.

You should be using your cart's database not something else.

characterdriven:

I'm getting this error after otherwise successful installation and eBay setup:

**1146 - Table '(database prefix)_alp.configuration' doesn't exist

select configuration_key as cfgKey, configuration_value as cfgValue from configuration

**Any suggestions to get this up and running?

maxrisc:

Kate,

You can save your auction item templates for each product using this.

So I will need to make a new tempate for each auction?

Or just one template which will work with all items?

(sorry for not understanding)

Use your shopping cart database not something else.

whatsup:

I have installed auction list pro and this is the erro im getting when i click on admin tools. how can I fix this

1146 - Table 'xxxxx_xxxxx.configuration' doesn't exist

select configuration_key as cfgKey, configuration_value as cfgValue from configuration

[TEP STOP]

Thanks:huh:

The way it works now you would need to create individual templates for each product. The technology does exist to do template wrappers (wrap your template around your item description) but I haven't gotten to that point.

---kate---:

So I will need to make a new tempate for each auction?

Or just one template which will work with all items?

(sorry for not understanding)

Okay. Thankyou!

Hi,

I installed this module successfully on a test cart. I have a few question. Does ALP work similarly to eBay Turbo Lister? Do I have to relist my zencart products onto ALP and then to eBay? Can I bulk import my zencart products into ALP? Does it support eBay stores? Please advise. Thank you.