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First off, I am a bookseller, and am importing my Access type database directly into MySQL via a script.

I have also added an AUTHOR field into PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION via PhPMyAdmin. This is a test site only at the moment, on Windows (though I can switch to linux whenever I need).

 

The regular search works fine with the titles.

 

I installed an ADVANCED SEARCH With Product Attributes addon, and the search box looks great.

But nothing works in it.

 

I am not using product attributes as each item I have is unique. Nothing comes in any 'varieties'.

So... first off would I break anything by simply removing the default product arributes tabels from ADMIN?

 

What I am looking for is instructions to map the products attributes or other fields that the addon is using into the subcategories I am interested in such as PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR .

 

I know very little MySQL and next to nothing about PHP, but am willing to learn.

 

If it matters, i would like to be able to search by author, keywords (description), date (max), price, Edition, hopefully with multiple fields (Ie Author: Einstein, Date: <1945, Edition: First)

 

If not possible, then just the basics....

Posted

You could use the Products Specifications Addon to add searchable data fields to each product. Searches would be limited to the field in question, so your search for Einstein (in the Author field) would return books by Einstein but not books about Einstein. You would also be able to add any conditions on any other field that you have set up: date, edition, binding, etc.

 

Or you could use a real search spider (I use Sphider; it's free/open source) to search everything on the site. This would return books by Einstein, books about Einstein, and books that mention Einstein in the description. Limits by other factors such as edition are not supported, or would have to be custom coded.

 

Regards

Jim

See my profile for a list of my addons and ways to get support.

Posted

 

Or you could use a real search spider (I use Sphider; it's free/open source) to search everything on the site. This would return books by Einstein, books about Einstein, and books that mention Einstein in the description. Limits by other factors such as edition are not supported, or would have to be custom coded.

 

 

 

I dl'd the Specs addon, and will take a look at it!

(It looks like i may have to remove the current Products Search with Attributes...)

 

I am particularly interested in Sphyder, as it looks like an excellent keyword search engine.

But something is unclear.

It looks like I will need an EXTRA database to use it?

Not a big deal as i am testing locally anyway, and many hosts offer multible DBs.

 

Now does this go under /HTMDOCS or /HTMDOCS/CATALOG/ . Thier instructions say standard directory, which is unclear on a test site.

 

Apparently there is an ongoing attmept to merge this with OSC:

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/7192

 

But it is incomplete and not for live sites.

Posted

Sphyder can be used with a separate database or with the same database as osCommerce. It uses a prefix that is added to all of the database table names so there will be no conflict with other users of the database.

 

I installed it in a separate directory under the osC directory. So, if you are using catalog/ as your store directory, install Sphyder in catalog/search/. Or use whatever directory name you want for it. Then create an osCommerce wrapper for the search page and include() the Sphyder search page. Remove the Sphyder header and footer templates, add a bit of styling, and it looks just like part of osC. I'll post my wrapper file if you want it.

 

I also removed the Sphyder admin directory and added it to the osC Admin, but that's not strictly necessary. Just remember to run the spider every time you make changes to the store, or set a CRON job to run it automatically at an off-peak time.

 

Regards

Jim

See my profile for a list of my addons and ways to get support.

Posted

An example of a wrapper would be greatly appreciated!

 

As well as recommendations for good PHP/MYSQL/OSCommerce tutorials.

Posted

Wrapper file. Name this search.php (or whatever you want) and put it in the root of your store.

 

<?php
/*
 $Id: search.php, v 1.2 2007/07/11 Kymation Exp $
   This file was designed as a container for the sphyder search engine

 osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
 http://www.oscommerce.com

 Copyright (c) 2007 osCommerce

 Released under the GNU General Public License
*/



 require ('includes/application_top.php');

 require (DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '/' . FILENAME_SEARCH);

 $breadcrumb->add(NAVBAR_TITLE, tep_href_link(FILENAME_SEARCH));

// Search terms in title
 $this_query = '';
 if (isset ($_GET['query']) && $_GET['query'] != '') {
   $this_query = tep_db_prepare_input ($_GET['query']);
 }

 $this_page_title = HEADING_TITLE;
 if ($_GET['search'] == '1') {
   $this_page_title = sprintf (HEADING_TITLE_QUERY, $this_query);
 }

?>
<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html <?php echo HTML_PARAMS; ?>>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php echo CHARSET; ?>">
<title><?php echo $this_page_title; ?></title>
<base href="<?php echo (($request_type == 'SSL') ? HTTPS_SERVER : HTTP_SERVER) . DIR_WS_CATALOG; ?>">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style_search.css">
</head>

<body marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" topmargin="0" bottommargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0">
<!-- sphider_noindex -->
<!-- header //-->
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'header.php'); ?>
<!-- header_eof //-->

<!-- body //-->
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"><tbody>
 <tr>
   <td width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<!-- left_navigation //-->
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'column_left.php'); ?>
<!-- left_navigation_eof //-->
   </tbody></table></td>
<!-- body_text //-->
   <td width="100%" valign="top"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding=2><tbody>
     <tr>
       <td>
<!-- search_module //-->
<?php
 require ('search/search.php');
?>
<!-- search_module_eof //-->
       </td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td><?php echo tep_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '100%', '10'); ?></td>
     </tr>
   </tbody></table></td>
<!-- body_text_eof //-->
   <td width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<!-- right_navigation //-->
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'column_right.php'); ?>
<!-- right_navigation_eof //-->
   </table></td>
 </tr>
<tbody></table>
<!-- body_eof //-->

<!-- footer //-->
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'footer.php'); ?>
<!-- footer_eof //-->
<br>
<!-- /sphider_noindex -->
</body>
</html>
<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'application_bottom.php'); ?>

Rename the Sphyder CSS file to style_search.css and put that in the root as well. And we need a language file as well:

 

<?php
/*
 $Id: search.php, v 1.1 2007/07/11 kymation Exp $

 osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
 http://www.oscommerce.com

 Copyright (c) 2007 osCommerce

 Released under the GNU General Public License
*/


 define('NAVBAR_TITLE', 'Search');
 define('HEADING_TITLE', 'Search');
 define('HEADING_TITLE_QUERY', 'Search for "%s"');

// Following copied from Sphyder file languages/en-language.php
// Strings starting with '%'  will be automatically replaced by script. Do not translate these
$sph_messages =  Array (
"Categories" => "Categories",
"CATEGORIES" => "CATEGORIES",
"Untitled" => "Untitled document",
"Powered by" => "Search powered by",
"Previous" => "Previous",
"Next" => "Next",
"Result page" => "Result page",
"Only in category" => "Only in category",
"Search" => "Search",
"All sites" => "All sites",
"Web pages" => "Web pages",
"noMatch" => "The search \"%query\" did not match any documents",
"ignoredWords" => "Following words were ignored (too short or common): %ignored_words",
"resultsFor" => "Results for:",
"Results" => "Displaying results %from - %to of %all %matchword (%secs seconds) ", //matchword will be replaced by match or matches (from this file), depending on the number of results.
"match" => "match",
"matches" => "matches",
"andSearch" => "AND (All words)",
"orSearch" => "OR (Any word)",
"phraseSearch" => "Exact Phrase",
"show" => "Show ",
"resultsPerPage" => "results per page"
);
?>

For tutorials, W3 Schools is useful. I also use the PHP manual and the MySQL manual. The manuals assume that you already know something about the subject, so multiple sources may be best. For osCommerce, I learned by studying the code. I'm not aware of any comprehensive guides to the code. Use the Knowledgebase and this forum to find specific information. There's a database map in the Extras folder in the osC distribution that's also helpful. If you get stuck, ask questions here on the forum. Most people here appreciate those who are trying to learn.

 

Regards

Jim

See my profile for a list of my addons and ways to get support.

Posted

Many thanks!

 

I will try installing it tomorrow night.

 

Tonight I tried to install Products Specifications Addon.

 

Its daylight and I havent been to sleep!

 

It looks like its almost working and I like the way it formats the description box.

 

But i keep getting:

 

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at C:\XAMPP\htdocs\catalog\includes\filenames.php:85) in C:\XAMPP\htdocs\catalog\includes\functions\sessions.php on line 102

 

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\XAMPP\htdocs\catalog\includes\filenames.php:85) in C:\XAMPP\htdocs\catalog\includes\functions\sessions.php on line 102

 

The Register_globals in php.ini doesnt affect the error either on or off.

 

I will probably think clearr on this after some sleep!

Posted

The session error is probably due to a space or other character before the starting PHP tag, or after the last tag, in one of the php-only files. Check the files that you edited in the includes/ directory and its subdirectories.

 

Regards

Jim

See my profile for a list of my addons and ways to get support.

Posted

The session error is probably due to a space or other character before the starting PHP tag, or after the last tag, in one of the php-only files. Check the files that you edited in the includes/ directory and its subdirectories.

 

Ach!

 

It was the blank lines at the end of filenames.php!

 

:)

Posted

I have tried the Products Specification addon, and cant seem to get it to do anything.

Even the empty filter box would not go away with the patch on the forum. ...

 

I do like the way it formats the description pages.

However I removed it until the time comes when I can figure out how to get it to use data in tables and subtables, such as Author, Description, ISBN, Date and others.

 

I do not add data manually. Everything is done from database export -> MySQL script -> site.

 

While category searches are a neat feature, global searches are better overall for a bookseller.

 

Is this going to be updated sometime in the near future?

With the products_to_specifications page included!

(Though I'm not sure how it will work with books)

 

I tried to install Sphider into my OSC database but there was a table name conflict, so I put it in its own database. It cant seem to find the OSC database, but then I cant get it to display a readable screen. Everything is garbled on the Admin page, with sql queries running through the dialog boxes.

 

Was this made for Linux? I have it on a Win system for now, but can move it over to Linux in the near future.

 

 

In the meantime I should note that when I say the Advanced Search Addon is not working, I should perhaps clarify.

It DOES parse the descriptions correctly and display all the items containing the keywords. HOWEVER, what it does not do is allow me or any user to click on the book and display it. On clicking on the items it brings up it invariably says ITEM NOT FOUND. It will not bring up the product description page.

 

Regular title search works just fine.

Posted

To get Products Specifications to do anything useful, you need to set up specification groups, assign them to categories, then set up specifications (such as Author, ISBN, binding, date, etc.) You would also need to set up Filters on those fields for searches.

 

I don't know how you would do an automatic import of your data. It's probably going to take some custom code to get the data in.

 

I do have some updates coded, but I need the time to finish updating and get everything together. Time is something I don't have much of right now.

 

You need to set the database prefix for Sphider -- I set mine to search_, but it can be anything. It will work fine on a Windows system running Apache, but probably not IIS. I've never seen the problem you describe, so I'm just guessing.

 

The stock Advanced search should work, so it's likely something else you have installed. Are you using a URL rewriter?

 

Regards

Jim

See my profile for a list of my addons and ways to get support.

Posted

If it matters, i would like to be able to search by author, keywords (description), date (max), price, Edition, hopefully with multiple fields (Ie Author: Einstein, Date: <1945, Edition: First)

See the SiteSearch Plus contribution in MyAddons. It won't do what you want but could with a little modification.

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Posted

To get Products Specifications to do anything useful, you need to set up specification groups, assign them to categories, then set up specifications (such as Author, ISBN, binding, date, etc.) You would also need to set up Filters on those fields for searches.

 

I don't know how you would do an automatic import of your data. It's probably going to take some custom code to get the data in.

 

 

 

Actually its a perl script which parses both the database and OSC, and my Access derived database (Homebase) and generates SQL code to be imported into OSC.

 

I didnt write the code, but I can modify it to allow for those six extra fields in products_description.

Some fields I can probably duplicate, just by repeating the data, and others I can use directly from the database.

 

Now the thing is, every upload involves the deletion of the data , and then reinsertion. If you mainly use products_description this may not be a problem. I just am not familiar enough with PHP web scripting to know exactly what would happen to PS with data disappearing and reappearing.

 

Right now I am running the test site off XAMPP 1.7.1 if I recall corectly.

maybe I need to add PHP to the %PATH% in Windoze.

 

Sphyder looks like it can be run on remote sites.

Will it download files and data too?

(I have used Black Widow in the past, but am not happy with it).

 

Actually the extended search I need is for customers. I have full access to my data from my database.

10 thousand items, so perhaps that helps understand the nature of the beast here....

Posted

See the SiteSearch Plus contribution in MyAddons. It won't do what you want but could with a little modification.

 

This works, and is a great relief.

 

At this point it is more important to have a good keyword search that works, and then an author, title search as a future project.

 

I notice it doesnt have an 'Advanced Search' feature as an option, but in a search for something it couldnt find it did bring up the Advanced Search page, which did not function, or more correctly found titles, but would not brintg up their pages, claiming 'Not Found'. Yet this was not easily repeatible. When seaching for nonsense words it come up to the email page, which works fine. OK I just noticed. The Advanced Search is there, but in the breadcrumb. When clicked it comes up, but is normally jumped over..

 

I do not have SEO items currently installed, and have no clue as to why the advanced search, whether stock, or even other addons, simply refuses to work. It finds the items readily enough, but will NOT click through to them.

 

The advanced_search file was not edited from stock, but written over entire from the package.

Posted

I do not have SEO items currently installed, and have no clue as to why the advanced search, whether stock, or even other addons, simply refuses to work. It finds the items readily enough, but will NOT click through to them.

 

The advanced_search file was not edited from stock, but written over entire from the package.

It is a stock advanced_search file with changes made to it so it should work. Perhaps something else in your shop has been changed that is preventing it from working. You can try putting your original file back in and then making the changes to it one-by-one to see if that points out the problem.

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Posted

Products Specifications links to both products and categories. If you are deleting all of your data, then all of the PS data will need to be deleted and replaced. It can use existing database fields without duplicating your data.

 

Sphyder should run on XAMPP without a problem. That's how I tested my original installation. You may need to change some PHP settings. Also, it's a search spider, not a download manager. It will spider any site it can reach, so you can use it to produce a search database of an external site.

 

Regards

Jim

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Posted

You can try putting your original file back in and then making the changes to it one-by-one to see if that points out the problem.

 

That is the strange part.

I have done that, and it *still* wont work.

The 12/21/07 dated original!

 

Currently I have installed:

Site Search Plus - works great, but 'advanced search' still putzed.

Addons Center

Admin Send Password

Guestbook

SMTPauth

 

Now I have made numerous layout changes, like turning off the Manufacturers Box and moving things around, so if something is broken I just need to figure out the most likely places to look for errors. The PHP/MySQL books I oredered are still in the mail!

 

Once again, what is peculiar about the problem is that the Advanced Search *will* pull up the results correctly, but when the items are clicked on they will invaraibly come up with a NOT FOUND screen.

 

I do see it does work on a virgin install of OSC so the problem is with a change made somewhere.

I tried a default PHP.INI, but that did nothing.

 

 

Its just where to look for something that enables product display on regular search but not advanced search, and its not on the advanced_search.php page! That does its job by finding the items.

Posted

Once again, what is peculiar about the problem is that the Advanced Search *will* pull up the results correctly, but when the items are clicked on they will invaraibly come up with a NOT FOUND screen.

<snipped>

Look at the URL that is being generated by Advanced Search. The URL is being malformed somehow. If you can't figure it out, post a sample URL here and we'll take a shot at it.

 

Regards

Jim

See my profile for a list of my addons and ways to get support.

Posted

Look at the URL that is being generated by Advanced Search. The URL is being malformed somehow. If you can't figure it out, post a sample URL here and we'll take a shot at it.

 

Regards

Jim

 

 

YES. This is the WORKING url for the item in the 'Normal' search page:

http://website/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/12578?osCsid=9ddfbcdbed136a281a4033474a629a4d"

 

 

This is the URL in the ADVANCED SEARCH page:

http://website/catalog/product_info.php/manufacturers_id//products_id/12578?osCsid=9ddfbcdbed136a281a4033474a629a4d"

 

The 'manufacturers_id/' was somehow stuck in there.

 

I deleted the dummy pre-loaded manufacturers, and that did not help. I intend to make that an author field (my next project....)

 

Now here is the thing:

If I view the source page in EITHER 'Normal' or 'Advanced Search' *BOTH* will say that the page name is advanced_search_result.php, even though they give clearly different results.

 

 

From advanced_search.php (only entries for manufacturer):

<tr>

<td class="fieldKey"><?php echo ENTRY_MANUFACTURERS; ?></td>

<td class="fieldValue"><?php echo tep_draw_pull_down_menu('manufacturers_id', tep_get_manufacturers(array(array('id' => '', 'text' => TEXT_ALL_MANUFACTURERS)))); ?></td>

</tr>

 

 

from product_info.php:

 

} else {

$product_info_query = tep_db_query("select p.products_id, pd.products_name, pd.products_description, p.products_model, p.products_quantity, p.products_image, pd.products_url, p.products_price, p.products_tax_class_id, p.products_date_added, p.products_date_available, p.manufacturers_id from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p, " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . " pd where p.products_status = '1' and p.products_id = '" . (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'] . "' and pd.products_id = p.products_id and pd.language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "'");

$product_info = tep_db_fetch_array($product_info_query);

 

That product_info.php had been modified in the past, so I replaced it with the original. No difference.

(The advanced_search.php was also replaced by its stock version with no difference).

 

Many thanks for pointing to the error!

Posted

It appears you are using the search engine friendly option in admin. This is not a good idea. It not only produces poor seo-type links, it won't work on all servers. Should you ever move to another server you may find your shop no longer works and any gain in the search engines will be lost or damaged.

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Posted

It appears you are using the search engine friendly option in admin. This is not a good idea. It not only produces poor seo-type links, it won't work on all servers. Should you ever move to another server you may find your shop no longer works and any gain in the search engines will be lost or damaged.

 

 

You are absolutely correct.

 

Turning off that option was indeed the solution to the problem.

All works well with the advanced search page.

 

And for the life of me I cant figure out how tossing a malformed 'manufacturers//' entry into a URL is supposed to help anything with google.

 

 

So the next and rather obvious question is:

What WOULD be recommended for OSC in dealing with the google beast?

Posted

1. Write good, original content for your pages.

2. Get one of the Meta Tag Addons and use it.

3. Sign up for a Google Webmaster Tools account and use the tools.

4. URL rewriters will do you no good with Google. If you want one for other reasons (why?) then use Ultimate SEO v.5.

5. Search this forum for SEO.

 

Regards

Jim

See my profile for a list of my addons and ways to get support.

Posted

1. Write good, original content for your pages.

2. Get one of the Meta Tag Addons and use it.

3. Sign up for a Google Webmaster Tools account and use the tools.

4. URL rewriters will do you no good with Google. If you want one for other reasons (why?) then use Ultimate SEO v.5.

5. Search this forum for SEO.

 

Regards

Jim

 

I have posted the above excellent advice over to the ABE bookseller forum.

 

A bit of background:

 

I have been on a bit of a crusade lately to familiarize ABE booksllers ( the worlds largest used, collectible, and OOP books site ) with OSC. Many use Amazon's non-portable Chrislands sites which look like simple spinoffs of OSC.

Most are technophobes, but there is no reason for smaller sellers with low volume not to be able to afford their own sites by hiring one of the many reasonaly priced developers out there who could probably churn out a decent looking OSC template site in less than an hour. There are around 12,000 ABE sellers.

But there are some who have shown interest in putting in the time to design and customize their own.

 

I am hoping to produce my own template designed for bookselling sites, and offer it here. Does the site accept complete templates as addons?

 

One of the stumbling blocks which most of us face when using template sites is due to the fact that we also list on other bookseller sites, such as ABE, Amazon, Alibris, Barnes and Noble and smaller sites. This creates two problems:

 

1. Most of our listings are collectibles and NOT *new*. Things like Product Attributes become meaningless to one-of-a-kind products. Even two books of the same title and edition may have different conditions, for example, and should be displayed seperately.

 

2. We are database driven. Easypopulate is a poor tool for the bulk of us. Especially as the quantities can be for 500 to 50,000. The interface needs to be simple and direct. Such as a perl script I have for generating Mysql statements (I did not write it). The problem I would have by making it public is that it relies on DBD:MySQL which is native to Linux, but a devil to get working (right) on Windoze. The OSC site database will NOT be our main database, however it would be intriguing to make it so. It would then have to output in many other database formats, though.

 

I will create a new thread for the next issue.... (table conversions)

Posted

The Addons has an entire section for templates and themes.Note that templates always complicate adding other features, especially for people unfamiliar with osCommerce. You might also consider the ongoing project to convert osC 2.2 to tableless format. This would allow you to make a new template with just a CSS file (and maybe some images.) If you do decide to make a template, I suggest you use either the STS or BTS framework.

 

It appears that you need to solve two main problems:

1. Front end -- create a functioning interface that your customers can use to find your unique products. We've discussed some of that earlier in this thread.

2. Back end -- Handle getting the data into and out of the database. This probably requires giving a lot of thought to the database design. You will have to modify the stock osC database to handle your data, modify your data sources to handle osC, or convert data between databases. It sounds like you are trying the latter approach.

 

If there is enough interest in this, you could work together on this. Tis forum allows collaboration on a project, and development code can be stored in the Addons section or on Github.

 

Regards

Jim

See my profile for a list of my addons and ways to get support.

Posted

The Addons has an entire section for templates and themes.Note that templates always complicate adding other features, especially for people unfamiliar with osCommerce. You might also consider the ongoing project to convert osC 2.2 to tableless format. This would allow you to make a new template with just a CSS file (and maybe some images.) If you do decide to make a template, I suggest you use either the STS or BTS framework.

 

It appears that you need to solve two main problems:

1. Front end -- create a functioning interface that your customers can use to find your unique products. We've discussed some of that earlier in this thread.

2. Back end -- Handle getting the data into and out of the database. This probably requires giving a lot of thought to the database design. You will have to modify the stock osC database to handle your data, modify your data sources to handle osC, or convert data between databases. It sounds like you are trying the latter approach.

 

If there is enough interest in this, you could work together on this. Tis forum allows collaboration on a project, and development code can be stored in the Addons section or on Github.

 

The front end is essentially working, with just that little bit about manufacturer/author problem, but in actuality any search with the author in it will return correct results. That keyword search suggested works perfectly. And now even the Advanced Search, which is more specific, will return accurate results on most fields, except manufacturers, which I hope to correct soon. I expect the Advanced Search to be rarely used, and is not easily accessible the way it is set up.

 

The backend is also functioning. I have all ten thousand books loaded into the site, and fully searchable. The script I have also uses an author field, which is added manually into products_descriptions. I will give the details in a following thread.

 

I am certainly looking to find other booksellers looking to collaborate on a project like this, especially as the benefits extend outside of bookselling into the collectibles markets, as well as the pivotal issues of driving the website with databases, something which OSC appears to still be in its baby stages with. EasyPopulate is primitive to what is really needed - direct database conversion tools.

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