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.