Easy Populate 1.2.5.4 support

elkbow:

Scrat,
In the past I have tried to use the Attributes down load, but it never worked.

So I deleted all products and relisted them without attributes except two items. Not a big store, only around 3200 products, but that Attribute never worked.

John
Thanks for the replies. :)

Does the Easy Populate Advanced support setting up Attributes, such as download links?

Ok, I've found several spots that say that "Quantity Discounts" is going to be available in the next release, but that does not help me now. Is there anyway to get it to work now? or a patch for this release?

I can manually add all my quantity discounts in, but it would take forever. I actually started it, uploaded my .txt file with a bunch of changes I made and it actually overwrote my quantity discounts, so that not cool either.

Any ideas?

KittieMD & Margecc:

EPA is supposed to support attributes, although I cannot personally verify this. Check langer's site. Attributes do not work in EP 1.2.5.4.

When Last I spoke with Langer (august 07) he was working on quantity discounts for EPA (not EP), but it seems he never quite got it working since he's never released a new version after 3.03 ???? I also needed quantity discounts, so I was waiting for his update before buying.

When last this came up, no programmer was willing (or had the time) to take up EP 1.2.5.4 for a rewrite or update.

margecc:

Ok, I've found several spots that say that "Quantity Discounts" is going to be available in the next release, but that does not help me now. Is there anyway to get it to work now? or a patch for this release?

I can manually add all my quantity discounts in, but it would take forever. I actually started it, uploaded my .txt file with a bunch of changes I made and it actually overwrote my quantity discounts, so that not cool either.

Any ideas?

I have the ot_quantity_discount module activated and it works fine. I don't see why it can't be installed on your site. I am using v1.3.7.1 but I know it worked on the previous version also.

I have another quick question about EP. I have all of my product quantity boxes turned off and when I add a single item manually, the quantity boxes do not appear. But when I add products with EP it adds the quantity boxes. Is there a way to tell EP to not add the product quantity boxes?

Thanks for all the help! :)

KittieMD:

I have another quick question about EP. I have all of my product quantity boxes turned off and when I add a single item manually, the quantity boxes do not appear. But when I add products with EP it adds the quantity boxes. Is there a way to tell EP to not add the product quantity boxes?

Thanks for all the help! :)

On your EP tab.delimited file under v_products_quanity do you have a quanity listed?

elkbow:

On your EP tab.delimited file under v_products_quanity do you have a quanity listed?Yes, I have tried it with both a 1 and a 0. I am a graphics site, so I don't have physical inventory.

Hey guys... bit of a newbie here, so maybe this is obvious, but it's got me pretty confused.

Site and admin was working 100% yesterday... fresh install with just a few categories and a couple test products entered in. Nothing crazy done to it. I'm running ZenCart 1.3.8 btw... This morning, I installed EP 1.2.5.4 as far as dragging the folders into my zen cart root. Chose to replace any files, as I haven't done any customization, and from what I can tell, NONE of the files in the EP folders overwrite anything from the regular install anyways.

So I try to go to my admin page, which had been working previously... And it comes up blank. Nothing, nada. No login option. Tried clearing my cache, no help.

Does EP just not get along with 1.3.8? I tried getting some info out of this thread, but jeez, it's 1500 replies long about and it's just too much ground to cover in a reasonable time frame. I also tried a search, but the search function won't even recognize "exact phrases" so that gave me way too much.

So I'm sorry if I'm asking something obvious... but does anyone know of a known issue caused by dropping the EP folders into 1.3.8? Is there anything I can look for? Everything was working before, and I highly doubt a file would corrupt itself out of the blue... and I didn't do any PHP customization, so it shouldn't be that...

Thanks in advance for your time and help. :)

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Teeb,

Did you download 1.2.5.4 or 1.2.5.5??

There should not be an issue with EP 1.2.5.4 if you uploaded it correctly. Check your remote files though your site's control panel to verify that your files are in fact there, and you didn't REPLACE the admin directory with the one from EP...

If you re-upload your /admin directory from your local copy, you should be okay.

I am using EP 1.2.5.4 on serveral 1.3.8a sites without issue.

1.2.5.4 -- just double checked. And I am on 1.3.8a, not just 1.3.8

And I already tried dumping my backup admin directory back over it to no avail.

If I try going to say, mysite.com/admin/login.php or index.php

It's just blank. If I try going to something that doesn't exist, I get a file not found. If I restrict permissions on those, I get you don't have permission to view this file...

So they're there... and the server sees them. But it won't display them. And I can't get logged in to do anything. :( And my storefront is still up and running. I've tried bouncing Apache, just out of curiosity, but of course that didn't help either.

Really clueless here.

Teeb:

1.2.5.4 -- just double checked. And I am on 1.3.8a, not just 1.3.8

And I already tried dumping my backup admin directory back over it to no avail.

If I try going to say, mysite.com/admin/login.php or index.php

It's just blank. If I try going to something that doesn't exist, I get a file not found. If I restrict permissions on those, I get you don't have permission to view this file...

So they're there... and the server sees them. But it won't display them. And I can't get logged in to do anything. :( And my storefront is still up and running. I've tried bouncing Apache, just out of curiosity, but of course that didn't help either.

Really clueless here.

How very odd. Sandy just had something odd like this happen last week. Okay, do this:

1. pull a copy of your admin/includes/configure.php off to the side
2. re-extract a full 1.3.8a from the download so it's fresh
3. rename admin to admin2
4. open your configure.php and carefully change reference to admin to admin2 being sure that your are adding the "2" to the directory paths.
5. now put this copy of configure.php into admin2/includes/
6. upload admin2 to your store's root

You should now be able to login normally. Note that this does not change any of your data, but if you have custom mods installed (like EP) they will not be active since those files are not in admin2.

If you can now login properly into the admin2 directory, you can rename your local copy back to admin then do a synchronize with the remote site (depending on your FTP software) to see just what has changed. Perhaps a remote file got corrupted??? Look for CORE files that should not have been changed.

To be "safe" you can always use your site's control panel to make an extra copy of your admin.

Hope this helps!

-chaddro

Well, for one, our server is on site, which makes it pretty easy for me to get at it and do things.

Secondly...

I set up an admin/admin2 and checked differences. The only differences were the files added for EP.

So I tried adding the files one at a time to the admin2 directory, refreshing the site every file, waiting to see which one was breaking it. It turned out 3 files cause the admin login to stop coming up.

admin/includes/extra_datafiles/easypopulate_filenames.php
admin/includes/functions/extra_functions/easypopulate_functions.php
admin/includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/easypopulate.php

Any of those three files cause the admin login to stop showing up. The page just goes completely blank. View source comes up completely blank when you check it.

If I log in to the admin without those three files, I get to the admin page, but a slightly broken version of it. The bar is still across the top, but missing certain dropdowns, like tools... and if you click on any items, you don't really go anywhere. If at that point, I add one or all three extra files, I get a completely blank page again.

I really don't know php well at all, and I hate asking other people to do my work for me, but I'm seriously at a loss here. I got one of the other guys in the office who actually knows a decent bit of PHP to take a look at it, and he didn't have a clue either, although he didn't really dig into the code or anything.

I did notice that the temp folder from my zip download of EP has an Attributes, Category, Froogle, Full, and Price/Qty exports in it already... and an index.html... Basically as if the guy just zipped up stuff off his site and threw it out to the community. Is there a chance he has a configuration setting flipped somewhere that needs to be put back to a default? I didn't see anything looking through all the EP files, but again, I'm not familiar with the program or PHP much. Is it also possible that anything in that temp folder (the upload folder) would affect the stuff in the admin file? I wouldn't think so pre-installation... I haven't even run the sql script yet, since I can't actually get the admin panel to open up with the files in place.

I've also tried the URL forced install path mentioned in install.txt with all files in the directories, and that didn't do anything either.

For reference, the exact "install" file I'm using is the one with the most recent date, obtained here (maybe this is what's getting me?):

http://www.modhole.com/modhole/index.php?module=documents&JAS_DocumentManager_op=viewDocument&JAS_Document_id=2

Is there a very slightly different zip I can get somewhere else on the site?

Thanks again for your effort chadderuski... every idea gets me a little closer to getting this working...

I really don't want to dig through the SQL tables and write a query to do this the long way for a couple thousand items. Not to mention I couldn't hand it off to our sales guys then, cause they'd be clueless as to how to do mass price updates or add 500 new items whenever we get a new vendor if they had to use SQL queries.

Hello All

I have inherited administration of some large (35,000+ products) webstores. A lot of the categories are a mess and others are crammed: 700 items in one cat, or "round" items in the "square" cat. I have been moving prods around and breaking up these huge cats in our zen cart and x-cart shops.

I have noticed that in zen cart when I change the category of a product in my text file and upload using EP, it leaves the prod in the old cat and also copies it to the new cat. I now have hundreds of products all over the place that are linked to their old locations.

It's my fault for not checking earlier: I just assumed that since it showed up in the new cat it was gone from the old.

So 3 questions:

Is there a way to kill these hundreds of linked prods without doing it one at a time? For instance, I know that everything in "square" that's linked has already been moved to "round", so "square shouldn't have any links at all.

Is there a way to swap prods between cats in my EP file, and stop zc from leaving the old one in it's old location?

And if I want to use EP to put the same product in 2 top-level cats, would I make 2 line items for it in the text file, one for each category?

TIA
--Tapper

KittieMD:

Yes, I have tried it with both a 1 and a 0. I am a graphics site, so I don't have physical inventory.

KittieMD
This is what I had to do:

Go to admin/Catalog/Product Types.

Under Product-General on the right select edit layout

Select the Value for the Title you want 1=On, 0=Off.

Your probably looking at "Show Quanity in Stock".

elkbow:

KittieMD
This is what I had to do:

Go to admin/Catalog/Product Types.

Under Product-General on the right select edit layout

Select the Value for the Title you want 1=On, 0=Off.

Your probably looking at "Show Quanity in Stock".

Thanks for replying! :)

I have it set to zero, but it still shows. Any other suggestions?

KittieMD:

Thanks for replying! :)

I have it set to zero, but it still shows. Any other suggestions?

KittieMD
I just looked at my tab.delimited file and had a problem with the date added kept going to 12-31-69.

So I deleted everything in that column and it worked. Try NOT putting anything in that EP Full file under the Quanity column. Neither a 1 or a zero. Nothing, and reload and refresh a product page.

Well don't I feel silly.

Some extreme digging with chmod got it working. Something was messed up in permissions... I'm not even sure what, as I did some wholesale changes and then tweaked things back down for security. But that fixed it.

elkbow:

KittieMD
I just looked at my tab.delimited file and had a problem with the date added kept going to 12-31-69.

So I deleted everything in that column and it worked. Try NOT putting anything in that EP Full file under the Quanity column. Neither a 1 or a zero. Nothing, and reload and refresh a product page.I just tried it and the quantity boxes still show. :(

Okay, so it's not a one, zero, or blank. Hmmm, the quantity boxes have to be generated from EP because on a manually added item, they don't appear. Does EPA address and fix this issue? If it fixes this problem, I would be willing to purchase it.

Teeb:

Well don't I feel silly.

Some extreme digging with chmod got it working. Something was messed up in permissions... I'm not even sure what, as I did some wholesale changes and then tweaked things back down for security. But that fixed it.
I am having the same problem as Teeb.

I setup ZC version 1.3.8a

then I downloaded ep v. 1.2.5.4 and copied the included files to their respective locations.

Afterwards the admin pages show up as blank.

I tried making sure that the ownership of the new files was consistant with all of the other files but the results were no different (the admin pages are still blank.

Teeb, Karl:

I just did a quick fantastico install of 1.3.8a, then uploaded 1.2.5.4 from modhole and everything tests fine.

This begs the question: what other mods to you have installed?

Fresh 1.3.8a install, or upgraded? Fantastico install?

ARE YOU SURE you uploaded all the files to their correct folders?

What host are you using?

FTP programs aren't perfect. What FTP program are you using?

Did you set the /temp folder permissions to 777?

Did you enable HTTPS?

Check your admin/includes/configure.php file for anything "odd" ...

Oh, and with 1.3.8a I've seen some odd behavior when 'STORE_SESSIONS' and/or 'SQL_CACHE_METHOD' are set to file. Set them to "db" and "database" and see what happens.

Also begs the question: was your /cache folder permissions set to 777?

I have been using EP for a couple years now on multiple hosts/installs and multiple testing installs. I haven't seen this behavior before. At least not related to EP.

You may also want to check that you cleared your browser's cache, and reboot. Also try a different browser. Zencart has had some odd admin login issues.

That about taps me out ideas!

-chaddro