Hi David,
After another helpful piece of code please! Would it be possible to have a drop-down and text box on the admin page where you could select any field from the data feed, pre import, and generate a list of the values for display in the text box? It's just that sometimes I only want to import a very limited set of products, say from a merchant category field, and at the moment that's only possible after either importing the whole feed and assigning that field to a PT field (even if I don't want to use it on the site) or scanning through the XML file by hand.
Cheers.
Keeop
Hi David,
Thanks. Sounds like a good idea. It doesn't seem to work correctly though. It prints a load of '1's before the field list and clicking on those fields just opens a blank page. Would this be caused by my hotch-potch of PT versioned code?! What would also make this better if that on the new screen a 'helper' could be incorporated too so that I could then highlight one of the values from the generated list and get a list of any products associated with it. Guess this might be a bit tricky though!
Cheers.
Keeop
Sorry Keep there was a superfluous extra "print" statement in the replacement line - corrected above...
Cheers,
David.
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Hi David,
Still nothing showing up in the newly opened window though!
Cheers.
Keeop
Sorted - didn't have the config.advanced file in that version! So, what do you reckon about the feasibility of putting a 'helper' in there to display any products? Guess the associated 'name' field for each item listed in the new window, whatever it may be?
Cheers.
Keeop
Hi Keeop,
Would an "Inspect" process _after_ a feed has been registered work for you - as the product name field can then be picked up from the `pt_feeds` record?
Cheers,
David.
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Hi David,
Yes that would work I reckon. I can always manually change around the registered fields in the feed table anyway should a scan/inspection reveal a better field to use for a particular thing. It's mainly for categories really, when there is a merchant category field and a network category field - to find which one is best suited.
Cheers.
Keeop
Hi Keeop,
I'll give this a go on my test server and follow up by email for you...
Cheers,
David.
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Hi David,
Will this work on our heavily modified version 12/10B?
Thanks!
Hi Convergence,
You might want to check out the Insepector tool posted just the other week which i've coded it to let you view custom field A-Z lists as well as the default fieldset but the initial code above should work fine with 12/10B if you're after inspecting field values before the first registration, but I know your installation is heavily customised so if any problems just let me know and I'll check it out for you...
Cheers,
David.
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Bob L.
Hi David,
Hope all is well.
What modifications would be needed to get this to work on version 14/06.
I've changed line #120 in feeds_register_step2.php and it creates the hyperlinks to feeds_register_inspect.php,but all I get is a blank page.
Thank you in advance and for your great support here.
Hello Bob,
The equivalent code in 14/06A is within a function so $filename and $format need to be declared global. Full modification as follows;
In admin/feeds_register_step2.php look for the following code at line 114:
global $productRecord;...and REPLACE with:
global $productRecord;
global $filename;
global $format;And then look for the following code at line 123:
print "<th class='pta_key'>".widget_safe($k)."</th>";...and REPLACE with:
print "<th class='pta_key'><a href='feeds_register_inspect.php?filename=".urlencode($filename)."&format=".urlencode($format)."&field=".urlencode($k)."'>".widget_safe($k)."</a></th>";FYI, I have also just posted a version of the Inspector tool for 14/06A - see downloads / this page for more info.
Cheers,
David.
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Hi Keeop,
Here's something quick and easy to try. In admin/feeds_register_step2.php look for the following code at line 259:
print "<th class='key'>".widget_safe($k)."</th>";...and REPLACE with:
print "<th class='key'><a target='_BLANK' href='feeds_register_inspect.php?filename=".urlencode($filename)."&format=".urlencode($format)."&field=".urlencode($k)."'>".widget_safe($k)."</a></th>";Now create a new file admin/feeds_register_inspect.php as follows:
<?php@set_time_limit(0);
header("Content-Type: text/plain");
require("../includes/common.php");
require("../includes/MagicParser.php");
$filename = $_GET["filename"];
$format = $_GET["format"];
$field = $_GET["field"];
$values = array();
function myRecordHandler($record)
{
global $field;
global $values;
$values[$record[$field]] = 1;
}
MagicParser_parse($config_feedDirectory.$filename,"myRecordHandler",$format);
foreach($values as $value => $v)
{
print $value."\n";
}
?>
With that in place, from Feed Registration Step 2, each field name in the sample data table will be a link to the new script (opening in new window) which will display the complete list of unique values for that field...
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.
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