Easy Populate Cateogry Problem

[fmckinnon]

Hey Ya'll

 

I've installed EasyPopulate and YES - read all the documentation (grin) ... everything works great with a few exceptions. My EasyPopulate file had nearly 1500 products .. so I used the Split feature and now I have EPSplit1.txt, etc.

 

I've set the $modelsize value in easypopulate.php to be: $modelsize = 75;

 

In OsCommerce, I've also set the maximum category value to be 75 for New Products Module as well.

 

However, it's CATEGORIES and SUBCATEGORIES that I need to edit, apparently. My categories are getting chopped off after about 33 characters ...

 

So, I have a subcategory with 108 products in it ... but EasyPopulate brings it into OsCommerce with 108 subcategories, each with 1 product (and the subcategory name is chopped off).

 

After typing this, I'm beginning to think that it may have nothing to do w/ the $modelsize and more to do w/ a setting somewhere that restricts the category and/or subcategory size.

 

Any help?

FRED

[Guest]

here is the easypopulate support thread, post any further questions / answers there:

 

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

 

if you change modelsize to 75 in ep, you must also change it to 75 in the database. are you wanting to have a modelsize up to 75 characters?

 

also for subcategories, are you needing to go down that deep?

 

going down more than 4 means the customer keeps clicking and clicking and clicking . . ..

 

 

do not use apostrophes in the categories names.

 

just a few pointers. post any other comments in the other thread