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How to get the products into your osCommerce website.Loading products to OSCommerce
Inventory Source provides you with formatted download files for easy inventory management. To access product information and import the products into your OSCommerce store, follow the instructions below.
Step 1: Check Your OSCommerce Database
Many OSCommerce stores come installed by default with insufficient field lengths, which causes import problems in some cases. To avoid this problem, follow the steps below.
* Access "PHPMyAdmin" through your hosting account. This is the tool to access and manage your database.
* Click on the "products" tabel in the list of tables on the left
* Verify that the length of the "products_model" field in the products database table is set to accept at least 64 characters. If not, modify the field by clicking on "change" for that field and setting the field length to 64.
* Next click on the "categories_description" table in the menu of tables on the left
* Verify that the length of the "categories_name" field in the categories database table is set to accept at least 64 characters. If not, modify the field by clicking on "change" for that field and setting the field length to 64.
Step 2: Load the products to your store
* You need to go to the Product File Download link from the menu on our site.
* Choose to Download the Active Products of your dropshipper in the Oscommerce Easy Populate Format.
*Download and save the text file locally on your computer.
* Then use your FTP client to transfer the file to the /temp folder in your Oscommerce directory.
* Then login to the Admin area of your Oscommerce site and go to the Easy Populate BASIC module.
* From here, you need to use the Import Data from a File in Temp feature to import this file to your store.
Step 3: Load the images to your server
* Login to your account and visit the Product File Download section.
* Select Create File for the Easy Populate format (just like in step 2 above).
* The popup window will contain a link to the zip file of images. Download the main image file and save it to your hard drive (you do not need the thumbnails file).
* Next, unzip the file and store the images locally on your machine.
* Now access your main osCommerce directory through an FTP client.
* Create a directory called isimages located in the images directory in the main osCommerce directory.
* Now upload the zip file into the /images/isimages directory you created.
* All of your images will now appear in your store.
Note: All images may not be available in all cases. The zip file contains all images for active products that are available for use from the supplier. The image files are updated weekly. Product details are updated daily.
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