Converting Actinic to Interspire and Prestashop
  • May 2010
    http://code.google.com/p/galactic-action/

    I've taken the Interspire converter and the new Prestashop converter and created a new project, codenamed 'Galactic Action'. This place will be where I (or contributors) will upload their modifications to the export routines for different shops.

    The new Prestashop exporter is uploaded now and supports creating of sections and importing of products.

    Product Attributes supported
    Product Reference
    Hidden (yes/no)
    Short Description
    Long Description
    Price
    Tax rate
    Weight
    Quantity
    Meta-title
    Meta-keywords
    Meta-description
    Image

    I have sucessfully imported a catalog of 1000 or so products. Everything went swimmingly.

    Known Issues:

    - Category importing, and strange numbers.
    "Note that the category import does not support categories of the same name"
    Prestashop does not support cateories of the same name, even if they are in
    completely deffierent parts of the category tree. To work around this, I
    introduce a unique element, in this case, the ref Id from the Actinic table.
    This lets us import all of our tree, even if some of the categories have the
    same name. Downside? it looks odd. You'll have to clean it up by HAND later.

    No workaround exists, complain to Prestashop. :)

    - Attributes
    ...are not yet implimented. Its very possible, and would require a bit of
    work. Why not give it a crack yourself? ;)

    - Images
    Take ages to import. They are loaded over the web from your live shop, very
    much like interspire does. If this is on another domain, and you have lots
    of products, then this can get lengthy and it may even crash. Until you are
    confident its all going to work, try debug mode. it'll only import 25
    products to test.

    - Meta-keywords / Meta-description / .
    When importing these items of data into sections, Presta imposes a 128 char
    limit. So, we trim your data short. This once again is a presta problem.

    - 301 Redirects.
    A 301 redirects file is also generated. At this time, it supports only
    sections, not products.

    :wub:
    Have fun kids.
     
  • November 2011
    Does having html comments in the descriptions cause major hair loss?

    Or more to the point, the actinic way for html comments...... !!<<......>>!!
     
  • November 2011
    the importer can strip the tags, and html, optionally.
     
  • November 2011
    Fantastic. Thought of it all haven't you :)

     
  • November 2011
    i use this function: http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php


    to remove these: !!<     >!!