Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 download can still be found in this list:

http://www.zen-cart.com/archived_contributions/admin-tools/

(After 5 years, I still find it to be the most reliable of all the EP offerings - and it works on all my installs of ZC 1.3.8a)

Scrat:

808helmets Easiest way to check your products is download a 'complete' file and check the image details and compare working ones to non working ones... also make sure that the folder names are the same as in the image details (E.g images/folder1 against images/Folder1 ) as ZC we see this as two different folders not the same best way use just lower case or upper case but not both.

cdnbride Its not a problem, we all started one day with very little knowledge but all becomes clearer with time :clap:.

Firstly I have no knowledge of what version 'Fantastico' uses and where that originates from.

As for permissions, you need to check that your temp FOLDER permissions are set right (I have mine set to 0755) because if this is not set correctly it would mean that any files sent to this folder may not be allowed to save into this folder because the permissions disallow it.(also there is no EP .php files in this folder as it is a temp folder for temp files)

Generally version 1.2.5.4 works pretty well (some know bugs) and usually errors of this nature are due to server issues. Most cheap hosting really set levels low as they can have say 2000 sites on one server so imagine if every site tried to up load 5000 products at once this would kill the server so they set levels for each user to stop this happening, another example is that they limit the users of the mysql database so only 12 people can connect to the database at once (12 customers - the 13th gets a server busy error page) so again it does not kill the server.

I would have a look at the easypopulate.php file and see if it is this version by comparing the one you can download from modhole.

Thanks for the reply. All my image details are correct and still no image. However, when I add photo through set-up page, the image appears even though the both addresses before and after are the same.
For some reason, my ZC is not reading the photo unless I go through the set-up page. I even looked at the addresses in my database and all are correct.
Any suggestions?

808helmets:

Thanks for the reply. All my image details are correct and still no image. However, when I add photo through set-up page, the image appears even though the both addresses before and after are the same.
For some reason, my ZC is not reading the photo unless I go through the set-up page. I even looked at the addresses in my database and all are correct.
Any suggestions?

What method are you using to UPLOAD the image files, to the images folder, on the server?

I am using fireftp through my firefox browser.

You should be using a dedicated (and comprehensive) FTP program, such as Ipswitch WS-FTP Pro - or if you want a free (less reliable) program, try Filezilla.

Browser-based FTP is unreliable, and you may find that you have been sending your images to the server in ASCII mode - rendering them unreadable.

I am using Zen 1.3.8a.
I have the mod 'Dual Pricing' installed.
I have the mod 'Image Handler' installed.
Instead of using Excel 2007 I opted to use OpenOffice for my spreadsheet app.

I created a small test list of products, about 10. I deleted the columns I don't use as recommended in the EP docs (specials, etc.). I copied and pasted the list, including the headers, into a new file and saved it as a .csv file. Also all cells were formatted as plain text.

Here's what's happening:

When I upload the list only the first item in the product list shows in my products. The rest do not show. At the bottom, after the upload, where it gives a listing of the products uploaded in EZ admin it shows the first product in the list in bright green with the rest in the list standard black text (which tells me that only the first product 'went through'.)

Also, the image (which was entered in the image spreadsheet cell for each item) does not show, as well. I have placed all my images in the default Zen location of the 'images' directory in the store root.

I find EZ a great app and will stick with it until I get it to work right but as of now I'm having these two issues. I have checked the ADMIN/CONFIG/EZ setups and they are all set properly. I can successfiully download the list using EZ but it apparently is the uploading that's giving me problems.

Do the EZ headers (i.e v_product_price, etc.) need to be uploaded along with the listing (I AM currently including the headers in my testing)?

Any ideas on why this might be happening? (Have searched this thread and found no post dealing with this particular problem).

Thanks in advance!

Rod

Thanks for the reply.

I tried using filezilla and I am getting the same results.

When I go to categories and edit of one my products, the image name appears since it was uploaded through easy populate. After clicking preview, the product image does not appear.

However, when I go back to the product set-up page, click browse and add product image manually, and then go to preview page, the image finally appears.

I am not getting the image to appear unless I add through the product set-up page, regardless if the product links and file names are correct.

I uploaded through easy populate successfully, and all links and image folders are aligned. But, I am still not having success with images appearing.

Any suggestions?

How would I go about globally renaming my product image names (in column B of the EZ spreadsheet aka v_Products_Image) Example. I have the following product model numbers in column A:

34225
45667
34556

In EZ Populate it asks for the image name and location (which in my case the image name is the same as the model number) in column B. So I copied and pasted the model numbers to column B. While I have used a spreadsheet what is the command to do a global renaming of all my model numbers with the .jpg extension (in leiu of doing each one manually) at one shot? I know there's a way but just can't find it.

I'd like all my product image names to look like the following:

34225.jpg
45667.jpg
34556.jpg

Thanks for any help. I imagine it's fairly simple.

Rod

808helmets:

Thanks for the reply.

I tried using filezilla and I am getting the same results.

When I go to categories and edit of one my products, the image name appears since it was uploaded through easy populate. After clicking preview, the product image does not appear.

However, when I go back to the product set-up page, click browse and add product image manually, and then go to preview page, the image finally appears.

I am not getting the image to appear unless I add through the product set-up page, regardless if the product links and file names are correct.

I uploaded through easy populate successfully, and all links and image folders are aligned. But, I am still not having success with images appearing.

Any suggestions?

I've just been assisting someone with a similar sort of issue, and when we went into it, we found that the core code of ZC was so heavily customized (a lightbox zoom feature had been embedded into a huge number of core files) that it was no wonder certain functions were not performing.

All that easy populate does is write the NAME of the file to the database. It just provides the PATH and image NAME. In a standard install of zencart, the php code references this line of text (because that's all it is really) from the database, and uses it to process the <img src> link to the relevant image.

If you are putting in the correct LOCATION in EP for your image files, AND you are sending the actual images up to the server via BINARY ftp, then the images should display.

I have a feeling you have some intricate customization (such as a lightbox feature), that seriously interferes with this standard behaviour. When you add an image via the product add/edit screen, there is probably some code sitting there that re-writes not only the images (some perhaps as thumbnails with a _th1 addition before the extension?), but their relative paths as well.

What image enhancing mods do you have installed - and how long have they been there? (Who put them there?)

Hello,
I'm sure this has probably been covered in previous posts but I can't route it out. Is there a page somewhere telling you ste-by-step how to use easy populate.
I have it installed, then I download the file that already has a few files on it - "Download Complete tab-delimited .txt file to edit" . From there I'm a bit lost..... I can see the items and can add on items in Excel, tried open office. But nothing I do seems to work so I'm probably missing something obvious as usual!! I just would really appreciate someone pointing me to a page that holds my hand and tells me what to do.
I really appeciate any help.

When I have time, I add stuff to my WIKI on easy populate:-

http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Easy_Populate

Scrat:

tom50 Re-check your install, I think you have missed a .php file from the FTP.

bkeaton What version are you using ? (Money on, that you are not using v1.2.5.4)

touchclothing Read the Readme.txt file and run the uninstall http(this will remove the database configs for EP) and then remove all the EP 1.2.5.4 .php files as the install.

cdnbride What version are you using ? (Money on, that you are not using v1.2.5.4)

I am using this version "Zen Cart 1.3.8a"

bkeaton:

I am using this version "Zen Cart 1.3.8a"

What version of Easy Populate? There are several... Quite a few are recent attempts at making EP 1.2.5.4 more "friendly", but these newer versions are a bit buggy right now.

Langer's last "stable" version was 1.2.5.4 , which I use on nearly 100 1.3.8a zencart sites.

Occasionally, I have a "blip" with EP 1.2.5.4 , but that is often related to suspicious characters in the TXT file.

I routinely go through my clients' spreadsheets and substitute literal characters for their HTML character code:

EG: instead of** ' **I use & # 3 9 ; (so isn't becomes isn& # 3 9 ;t) - Spaces added intentionally because this post will display the result, not the code.

The version of Easy Populate is 1.2.5.7.csv

bkeaton:

The version of Easy Populate is 1.2.5.7.csv

That's one of the later versions which many people are reporting as a bit unstable right now.

What version of PHP is on your server? (to find this out, click VERSION in the header menu - right hand side - in your admin console.)

Version PHP4

bkeaton:

Version PHP4

You need PHP 5.2... for 1.2.5.7

So, uninstall EP 1.2.5.7

And install 1.2.5.4

Then read my WIKI
http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Easy_Populate

1.2.5.4 is available HERE

schoolboy:

You need PHP 5.2... for 1.2.5.7

So, uninstall EP 1.2.5.7

And install 1.2.5.4

Then read my WIKI
http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.php/Easy_Populate

What is the fastest way to uninstall the EP 1.2.5.7?

I have downloaded the other version and I don't like it. You have to type everything in that is what I don't want. Typing it in is wastes my time. Is there another way to do this?