How's everyone downloading pictures into their Image section?

[chimol]

Hi all,

I've gotten the EasyPopulate installed on my system and was going to be uploading products to my

catalog this week, but when I do the test, the image that is supplied by the supplier only come up

as a link in the store. In the file it give me the www.address.com where the picture is, but I would

like the picture to show up in my store and not linked.

Is there any program or macro that I can run to pull all the picture links from the .csv file and put them

in a temp directory on my desktop until I can move them over to my server and associate them with

the item descriptions?

Thanks,

Steve

 

p.s. I'm sure there is somebody out there that has a huge store and you didn't upload the pictures one at a time, this

is what I DON'T want to do.

[Hotclutch]

Hi all,

I've gotten the EasyPopulate installed on my system and was going to be uploading products to my

catalog this week, but when I do the test, the image that is supplied by the supplier only come up

as a link in the store. In the file it give me the www.address.com where the picture is, but I would

like the picture to show up in my store and not linked.

Is there any program or macro that I can run to pull all the picture links from the .csv file and put them

in a temp directory on my desktop until I can move them over to my server and associate them with

the item descriptions?

Thanks,

Steve

 

p.s. I'm sure there is somebody out there that has a huge store and you didn't upload the pictures one at a time, this

is what I DON'T want to do.

 

Easypopulate does not copy the image itself. You basically transfer your images first from your PC to your images directory server side then execute easypopulate in Admin. If you have extra image fields then you have to enable extra fields in easypopulate.php

[chimol]

I understand that EasyPopulate doesn't do images, but how can I download all the images that are referenced in the .csv file from my supplier. I've read somehere that you can creat a .BAT file and run a script to pull all the images and download them to a folder. How is everyone with these large shops doing it? Surely, they are not downloading one at a time to their image folder.

[♥geoffreywalton]

You can write a php script to download images from a link in an excel file to your images library.

 

If I remember correctly the php command is @copy.

[chimol]

You can write a php script to download images from a link in an excel file to your images library.

 

If I remember correctly the php command is @copy.

 

Can you elaborate on how to put the command together and use it? I'm new to the PHP thing, but I'm a quick learner.

 

thanks,

Steve