Can't see categories in admin > catalog > Categories / Products

[a1200]

Hi I have imported the category structure from an existing site (not an osCommerce site), and it all looks lovely in on the front end, right down to the category images etc. I can't however see the categories, only the 1 and only category I had before on the admin area, which I have since deleted on the admin area and seems to have made no difference to the database. This obviously makes a problem going forward with editing categories. I would assume when I import the products we will have the same problem. Any ideas?

[a1200]

Any ideas?

[♥geoffreywalton]

I believe categories.php displays information generated from the product table calling in the descriptions from the categories table.

 

The problem you have is getting imported products to have the "right" category code on them.

 

Unless the category and product tables come "across" together then you will have problems.

 

One of the easiest ways is to export products form one site using easy populate and then import them using easy populate again.

 

Naturally enough this does not move images and copy all fields over. But it is a good start.

 

HTH

 

G

[a1200]

Hi Geoffrey. I finally discovered what was causing it! I had several versions of the website on a server using VHost. I also had multipule versions of the database on it. I had not updated configure.php in /admin/includes as well as /includes! Whoops! Now they are looking at the same database, we are ok again. Doh!