Customizing Easy Populate

[DandA]

My first post:

 

Hiya,

 

I want to use a tab delimnated text file to populate my product listings, I've downloaded the easy populate contribution, and this is my problem.

 

I've got a datafeed.txt from my manufacturer, and the field names are not the same as the field names in easy populate (of course). Rather than having to change the field names every day in the data feed file, I'd like to change the field names in easy populate php file so that I only have to do it once, understand?

 

LOL I hope I'm clear enough

 

 

Thanks,

Anne

 

 

 

The reply:

why not just do it the other way around, figure out what the fields are for your manufacturer, then overlay a header file with the correct ep names (which correspond to the osCommerce fields) and then you are done . . almost anyway. you still need to layout the txt file to match all the way in, else you could have corrupted data, something going one way while it is supposed to go that way.

 

now if you have other questions on EP, post at the END of the support thread.

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=64945

 

 

 

 

My reply to the reply:

 

 

I am not going to be editing the datafeed file every day, my customer is. He does not want to have to change the existing file names to the ep names, that's why I would like to just change the ep names to coincide with the existing field names.

 

There's no way to do this?

 

Thanks,

Anne

[Guest]

you asked for help, i informed you where you could get help. you obviously want an answer you want to hear, not one which is going to work. thus, go for it . . .

 

also, please no double posting in the forum, against forum rules.

Edited July 20, 2004 by Mibble

[DandA]

I'm sorry if I've not followed the forum rules, I thought I had put my first post in the wrong spot, so I tried posting in what I thought was the correct place by your response.

 

I guess I am also unclear as to what you meant when you said to do it the other way around. I'm simply trying to make this easy for my client.

 

I've been fooling with this contribution most of the day, and while I finally got it to work, I have no clue on where to start to get it to work the way I want it to..

 

I'm sure it's because I'm not understanding something, but I'll be darned if I can figure it out

 

Thanks anyway,

Anne

[Guest]

the people who use easy populate and know it subscribe to the thread, dont usually look here for helping others is why i said you need to post the thread for support of easy populate at the end of the easy populate thread

[DandA]

Ok, I got you....

 

I thought I had reposted it to the end of the thread, and must have done it in the same place twice.

 

Should I repost it to the end of the thread, or just leave it here?