Easy Populate 2.62-MS2, not SO easy

[aerialis]

Hi all,

 

I've just downloaded and installed the Easy Populate 2.62-MS2 and I'm doing some testing. Downloading works fine, but I have trouble populating. I've made a small text file with a handful of products, but when I try to populate this file, I get the following error message_

 

 

Filename: importtest.txt

 

Warning: file(/...../mydomain.no/catalog/catalog/temp/importtest.txt) [function.file]: failed to create stream: No such file or directory in /...../mydomain.no/catalog/admin/easypopulate.php on line 743

 

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /...../mydomain.no/catalog/admin/easypopulate.php on line 748

 

I'm kind of new to php so I'm afraid I must be led by the hand on this ;)

 

Anyone?

[aerialis]

Please??! :rolleyes:

[Guest]

I thin I can help you with this one buddy because I had the same problem yesterday.

 

Fris of all find out if your store installed in the catalog directory. Then open easypopulate.php

 

Where it says

 

$tempdir = "catalog/temp/";

$tempdir2 = "catalog/temp/";

 

change to

 

$tempdir = "temp/";

$tempdir2 = "/temp/";

 

and where it says

 

$froogle_product_info_path http://my.domain.com/catalog/product_info.php

 

change to http://www.putyourdomainhere.com/catalog/product_info.php

 

and fix $froogle_image_path

 

fix that oo.

 

After that you should be stuck just like me.

[Guest]

BTW,

 

I ahve been asking for help on this for about 2-3 days and I can't seem to get it. So maybe we could help each other. Let me know how it goes

[aerialis]

Thanks a lot for your reply! :)

 

I'll let you know how it works out.

[Guest]

no problem

 

i am trying to figure out how to get the names and categories to work now. I am still lost.

 

Blind leading the blind huh?

 

mic

[aerialis]

It worked!!! :D

 

Thanks again

[aerialis]

Well, kind of. The categories seems to be ok, but I'm having a bit of trouble with the manufacturer. I think i need to take a closer look at the import file.

 

I'll keep you posted.

[aerialis]

Latest upate:

 

I found a couple of errors in the text file I was using as a source for the import, an when I had them corrected, everything seems to work fine. :)

[Guest]

Now you can help me plese.

 

How do you make categories?

 

mic

[aerialis]

How do you make categories?

 

I made all my categories and sub-categories before I run the import, so the cats didn't have to be created during the upload/insert procedure.

 

Before I ran the upload/insert, I entered a few products 'manually' and then I downloaded a complete tab-delimited .txt file. I opened that file in excel and added a bunch of new products, saved it, uploaded it and inserted the records into the database.

 

On the first attempt I had mixed up a couple of fields in the text file, but after having corrected them, the upload/insert went fine.

 

One problem remains though. No date was entered entered into the DB, but I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with my date format. Should be fixable. :)

 

If you like, I can mail you a copy of my text file.