Hallo David,
I wondered if it is simply possible to create multiple new categories for category mapping in one go (bulk) instead of one by one.
WHY: I have a list of categories that i want to use
PAGE: www... admin/categories.php
SOMETHING LIKE: https://www.pricetapestry.com/node/3094 (dbmod.php)
Can it be done by a PhpMyAdmin import, or to a create .php that create those fields in the datbase something like node/3094?
And if it's not possible, I'll just do it one by one :)
Thanks greetings Arlo
Hello David,
Question = Do you have the list of categories as a text?
Answer = yes that's the idea! Sounds great, and would be great for future websites :-)
Thanks & greetings Arlo
Hi Arlo,
With the category list as feeds/categories.txt here's an import script (run from top level)
<?php
require("includes/common.php");
header("Content-Type: text/plain");
$filename = "feeds/categories.txt";
$fp = fopen($filename,"r") or die("Could not open ".$filename);
while($category = trim(fgets($fp)))
{
$sql = "SELECT id FROM `".$config_databaseTablePrefix."categories` WHERE name='".database_safe($category)."'";
if (!database_querySelect($sql,$rows))
{
print "Adding: ".$category."\n";
$sql = "INSERT INTO `".$config_databaseTablePrefix."categories` SET name='".database_safe($category)."'";
database_queryModify($sql,$result);
}
}
print "Done.";
?>
Cheers,
David.
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PriceTapestry.com
Thank you David, That's wonderful and works perfect! Greetings Arlo
Hello Arlo,
Do you have the list of categories as a text file that you could save in /feeds/ e.g. categories.txt - just one category per line:
Category 1Category 2
etc.
If that would be quicker than manually creating the entries let me know and I'll work out an import script for you...
Cheers,
David.
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PriceTapestry.com