Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

ok I am absolutely loosing my mind, I have uninstalled and reinstalled 3 times today, even did a clean backup from a known good working time, and this is what I am getting whenever I try to upload a file regardless of size, or how much info is in the .csv. However when I go in and check if everything has been loaded up properly it seems to be (I have tested this on files of 1, 10, and 20 changes). which generally would not be that big of a deal, leave it as it is and move on. However I have a file with over 100k changes that need to be made, I have broke this down into files of 500 however it is nearly impossible to track all those updates 1 by 1 and would take more time doing so than going in and manually doing the changes. I would like to think that even in spite of my error that I am getting that everything is being inserted correctly, however with no way to check at once (the list that shows you what has been changed and what has not).

I have tried everything I can think of, I have changed my php memory alotment from 128m to 512m, I have changed the time out from 60 to 240, I have even gone in and optimized the memory alotmont and maximum connections to the database and yet I still get this error am I doing something wrong? My website is "b u l l y s p e r f o r m a n c e . c o m" I do not get this error on any other pages, and I have checked my error logs on the vps and I do not see anything related to the erasypopulate, just a bunch of errors about pictures missing on products where I need to go in and update them to the new picture name, so that the database is looking for the right file.

any help would be greatly apreciated.

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Hi Guys.. I am getting the following error in the debug log when I import.

MySQL error 1054: Unknown column 'EASYPOPULATE_CONFIG_CUSTOM_FIELDS' in 'field list'
When executing:
INSERT INTO kyk_products SET

How would I be able to fix this.

Thanks.

jwaynehinkle:

ok I am absolutely loosing my mind, I have uninstalled and reinstalled 3 times today, even did a clean backup from a known good working time, and this is what I am getting whenever I try to upload a file regardless of size, or how much info is in the .csv. However when I go in and check if everything has been loaded up properly it seems to be (I have tested this on files of 1, 10, and 20 changes). which generally would not be that big of a deal, leave it as it is and move on. However I have a file with over 100k changes that need to be made, I have broke this down into files of 500 however it is nearly impossible to track all those updates 1 by 1 and would take more time doing so than going in and manually doing the changes. I would like to think that even in spite of my error that I am getting that everything is being inserted correctly, however with no way to check at once (the list that shows you what has been changed and what has not).

I have tried everything I can think of, I have changed my php memory alotment from 128m to 512m, I have changed the time out from 60 to 240, I have even gone in and optimized the memory alotmont and maximum connections to the database and yet I still get this error am I doing something wrong? My website is "b u l l y s p e r f o r m a n c e . c o m" I do not get this error on any other pages, and I have checked my error logs on the vps and I do not see anything related to the erasypopulate, just a bunch of errors about pictures missing on products where I need to go in and update them to the new picture name, so that the database is looking for the right file.

any help would be greatly apreciated.

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Please contact the server administrator, and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

Anyone know what might be causing this issue ^^^

I was about ready to give up on this when I tried a small change up with EZ Populate CSV. I have MS Office 2013, figured open office would be a pain, so I tried to save the .csv excel as a .csv(msdos), and it works.

It is uploading full product description's and so far I have not seen any errors in the web site. With the regular .csv I kept getting truncated descriptions, so this actually fixed my only trouble.

Complete export not working properly. It does create a .csv file and it does have all of the fields listed but I can not get it to actually export product information. All of the other export features work properly. I only have 1 product and 1 category setup so I wouldn't think I'm hitting any size limitations. While I'm not great at PHP I can usually get by. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Zen Cart 1.5.1
Brand new site.
upload via FTP and run zc_install
MySQL 5.5.23-55 and PHP Version: 5.3.27 (Zend: 2.3.0)

I've in admin easy populate config page blank, and when try to start create file, I've this message:
An SQL error has occured. Please check your input data for tabs within fields and delete these. If this error continues, please forward your error log to the Easy Populate maintainer
Error logs say:
PHP Warning: mysql_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in ..../easypopulate.php on line 852

Hi All,

I'm using zencart version 1.5.1. Will easy populate (the free version work on this version) or do I have to also use the Easy Populate CSV for the version of zencart that I am using? BTW, what is the difference between the free easy populate and the commercial version?

Any all all inforamtion will definitely be appreciated!

I am using this version and it works great!
EasyPopulate-4.0-master

Did have one problem. Seems it was a database error.
I had to install EP before I installed Fast and Easy checkout otherwise EP would not install the admin/configuration portion.

So I'd install it before I installed ANY other plugins.

Thinking of changing from Apsona to Easy Populate but seems like I remember reading on one of the forums that some felt an earlier release was more stable, Does anyone have any information on that?

Thanks
Jim

I have added product columns by installing Product Attributes such as Height, Width, and Length. Easy populate does not dump these product table columns. Does anyone know which Easy Populate code would need to be changed?

Why the db not update after upload the CSV file , how can solve the problem ?

The only easy populate plugin I could get to work was EasyPopulate-4.0-master from the github repository.
However there are two strains of EasyPopulate-4.0-master on github that behave differently

And the only way I could I could get it to install was to install it before I installed the other plugin's like FEC.

There are various strains of Easy Populate:
easy_populate_csv_for_zencart_v1.5.x_v1.2.5.7c
Easy Populate with Group Price Per Item
EXCEL Populate..... And maybe others.
These I could not get to install properly.

IMHO They all need to be combined.

I've spent hours sorting through all the problems associated with this plugin(s).

How can I creat a CSV , Excel or TXT file only with product name,category, products price (Gross or Net), Products Quantity and Products Model ?

This is my fourth store on ZC so I'm pretty well versed in the cart, but for the life of me I cannot figure this out. I need to add a red link going to another page for "restrictions" for certain product pages right after the description. I've tried everything I can think of to try to use Easy Populate. So I have the description in there - I just need to add "See Restrictions" in red with a link to another page on the site. This applies to about half of my products. Any help?

marketingspartan:

So I have the description in there - I just need to add "See Restrictions" in red with a link to another page on the site. This applies to about half of my products. Any help?

If you already have something like "Certain restrictions apply." in the description and just want to add "See Restrictions" (with the link) then the most "elegant" way would probably be to use a search & replace in the website control panel with mySQL. But the down & dirty way with Easy Populate would be to just do the search & replace on the description field. At that point you could upload your whole Easy Populate datebase & update everything, even the records that don't need updating, or you could fine tune things by eliminating the records that don't need updating, and just upload the required fields, which I believe are the model number, product name, and in your case the description field. Oh, and don't forget to BACKUP FIRST!!!

Thanks, I've actually tried that. I cannot for the life of me figure out why it is not taking the changes. I've made the changes in easy populate, uploaded, gotten the message the changes were accepted but the link is not there. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong in the syntax but don't know what it is. I'll try the MySql and see if it takes.

Hello
Currently I am using 1.5.1 version of Zen cart
Hosted on local windows PC and wamp installed for other server support.

The installation and other things seems to be working fine.
My main worry is transfer of products and listing to another server. I have installed Easy Populate.
I have updated the database and created many categories and listed products offline. In an attempt trying to transfer all listings to another fresh installation, I found that data is messed up. I identified that, the export data in csv file is not proper, means data is wrongly populated in exl sheet.
products listed to one category is getting shown in another.
Please help me for this serious concern. I dont want to waste my time trying another zen cart like platform.
Thanks in advance

Ryk:

Absolute bull! There's always the old-fashioned method of manually entering your products! OK, I accept there may be no way for YOU to use it - I'm only pointing this out for the benefit of the noob who might just see that comment and thinks that s/he needs EP to add a handful of products or they must abandon ZC.

Think about it - the only people who post here on the EP support thread are those for whom things HAVE gone wrong; the hundreds (thousands?) who have no problem with it don't keep posting to say "I have no problem" :wink2:

So, the most recent version is available from http://www.zencartbuilder.com . This is the pro, paid for, and you get support from the author. However, unless there's been some major changes since I last looked, you MUST HAVE your complete category structure in place; EP does NOT create categories for you.

Dear Friend
I think there seems to be some problem while using easy populate plugin.
As u mentioned There's some old method to get backup of data and restore the listing, could you please help me with that old or manual method so that I can make my self sure of not loosing the product listing.

i bought ezpopulate in 2008. i have installed it a few times without a problem.
now i re-installed zen cart (1.5), and followed ezpopulate instructions, but it does not show up in admin->tools.

admin/includes/configure.php:
define('DIR_FS_ADMIN','/home/my-username/public_html/xxxx.com/admin_xx');
(i was not forced to rename admin folder before. this time around i did.)

can someone help?

PetleyJ:

Hi Guys.. I am getting the following error in the debug log when I import. MySQL error 1054: Unknown column 'EASYPOPULATE_CONFIG_CUSTOM_FIELDS' in 'field list' When executing: INSERT INTO kyk_products SET How would I be able to fix this. Thanks.
in your admin folder.
edit easypopulate.php and find line 592 and comment out so it looks like below
//$custom_filelayout_sql.