Comments on: Magento: Import Script – Total Rewrite In Progress

By: Chris Nudd

Chris Nudd — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:00:58 +0000

Just thought, does the ip address have to be whitelisted on the remote sql or not since its an api?

Thanks

By: Chris Nudd

Chris Nudd — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:17:43 +0000

Tried the ecommerce-themes a few times with no luck, was getting an error. Left feedback but never heard back from them.

By: rwired

rwired — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:46:27 +0000

My colleague just pointed me to this: http://categoryimporter.ecommerce-themes.com/
I haven’t tried it yet, but seems someone else has at least tried!

By: Josh Pratt

Josh Pratt — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:37:35 +0000

rwired,

I agree. Categories are not an option even for Magento’s imports now. Unfortunately though, I can only do so much at a time… We’ll see what happens. I’m surprised that nobody else has built an import script for anything yet though…

By: rwired

rwired — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:21:02 +0000

Importing categories would be a great feature. I’m moving a product database into Magento right now that consists of 3776 categories (some parents of others), and 48387 products. Needless to say I don’t want to have to do either of these manually through the Magento backend!!!!

Products I can deal with… but Categories???

By: OfficeSaver

OfficeSaver — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:35:43 +0000

That sounds good.

I’ve started working on setting up categories from within the magento admin and it’s not that laborious – so you’re script for importing products will be a fantastic addition to magento.

I’m off to setup a twitter account to follow the progress….

By: Josh Pratt

Josh Pratt — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:13:16 +0000

John,

For the launch of 2.0, the script will not be importing categories. I have created scripts to import categories though before – so it wouldn’t be a far-fetch to eventually build that into the product import script, OR, I may build a script solely for importing categories. We’ll see when/if we get there.

By: OfficeSaver

OfficeSaver — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:02:40 +0000

Hi Josh,

Just a quick question – will the import script allow the user to just bring in categories and sub-categories, or will it exclusively work for product imports?

I’m really interested in importing categories/sub-categories and their names, without any corresponding products.

Thanks for all your help and I think your blog is going to be a brilliant magento resource.

All the best,
John

By: websuperman

websuperman — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:11:40 +0000

I am by no means a php expert or even novice, but I have worked with programmers designing such a tool for another ecommerce platform in the past and we handled default values with an xml configuration file. It’s very easy to modify and maintain and could be as flexible as you want. For instance you could allow it to set default values for any field, even custom ones. You could extend that by allowing the configuration file to set values based on other values, but that can get more complicated, just my two cents.