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Zen Cart to VirtueMart csv export

Marko Tomic — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:51:25 +0100

Following my post on Zen Cart friendly URLs, I would now like to give VirtueMart some love.

I've been looking for ways to export Categories and Products from Zen Cart and bulk insert them into VirtueMart. Wishful thinking? That's what I thought after googling for a solution and couldn't find anything that's convincing and, of course, free.

This motivated me to download a free version of CSV Improved component for VirtueMart and have a look at the csv format required for imRead More...

Zen Cart Friendly URLs

Marko Tomic — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:35:56 +0100

I've been exploring Zen Cart shopping cart for a long time and one thing that, I thought, needed improvement was the support for friendly URLs. Ultimate SEO URLs break my site and I needed another solution. I found this little beauty called Simple SEO URL and it works beautifully. It's a little tricky to set up, but it's worth the effort. Installation process will take you about 15-20 minutes.

{xtypo_warning}I use Zen Cart 1.3.8a and SSU 3.8.3. If you have different veRead More...

MAMP vs Entropy PHP on OS X

Marko Tomic — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:15:36 +0100

Following my post on Snow Leopard Gotchas, I discovered another problem you might run into. SL comes with currently the latest version of PHP 5.3.0. However, not all PHP projects will play nice on v5.3.0. What you could do is:

1. build and configure an older version of PHP from source - e.g. 5.2.11
2. Install Entropy PHP (note: this will modify your SL Apache config files).
3. Or just be lazy and install MAMP (Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, PHP) in a few seconds.

I choRead More...