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Oct 27, 2004, 8:06 AM

Andy

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Oct 27, 2004, 8:06 AM

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[ NEW PLUGIN ] GoCollectImport Plugin

Name: GoCollectImport
URL: http://www.ultranerds.com/...bin/details/139.html
Price: $100, or FREE to people using me as a referer.

Example of a site using it: http://www.myukshopping.co.uk/Cool_Gifts/index.html

What's it do? Basically, this plugin will setup a script on your site, which will grab almost (sometimes over) 60,000 products from GoCollect.com (a well known, and trusted gift site).

Main features;

Ability to "merge" categories together (i.e any category beginning with "Angel", gets put in the "Angel..." category, to save on the number of categories at root level)
Ability to add you're own customizations directly in the script.
Only takes an hour (possibly longer, depending on your server), to import almost 60,000 products!
Adds GREAT content to your site.
All runs via one .cgi script, and does the grabbing of the appropriate Datafeed files for you (as well as putting your affiliate Id number in the URL's)
Intelligent category generation..
Can be setup fully automated, where it just runs on its own.
Simple to install and setup, and even simpler to run!

If you have any problems, please don't hesitate to post your question(s) here, and I'll do my best to answer =)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Mar 15, 2005, 5:50 AM

Andy

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Mar 15, 2005, 5:50 AM

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Re: [Andy] [ NEW PLUGIN ] GoCollectImport Plugin In reply to

Hi,

I've just written a pretty cool script, which goes along with my GoCollectImport plugin Smile

This is a free addition for existing users, or any new owners.

Its a pretty simple script to use.

1) Run the normal GoCollectImport script.
2) Add a new global (see below)
3) Upload import_images.cgi into the /admin/gocollect/ folder, and then run from SSH with;

part /full/path/to/admin/gocollect/import_images.cgi

The global you will need (for grabbing images), is as follows;

<%global_name($ID)%>

Code:
sub { 
  my $ID = $_[0]; 
  my $path = $CFG->{build_root_path} . "/images/thumbs"; 
  my @tmp = split //, $ID; 
  my $folder_id = $tmp[0];   
  return qq{$path/$folder_id/$ID.gif}; 
}

I've just started using this on one of my sites, and its pushed sales up 50%+ (just by having an image shown next to the description/title on the category pages).

Enjoy!

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Mar 16, 2005, 4:23 PM

loxly

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Mar 16, 2005, 4:23 PM

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Re: [Andy] [ NEW PLUGIN ] GoCollectImport Plugin In reply to

http://www.myukshopping.co.uk/Cool_Gifts/index.html

This category doesn't exist anymore. Where'd it go? :)

I still haven't mastered shell on my new server, when I do, watch out!!!! :)

Mar 16, 2005, 11:01 PM

Andy

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Mar 16, 2005, 11:01 PM

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Re: [loxly] [ NEW PLUGIN ] GoCollectImport Plugin In reply to

Hi,

Its still importing <G>

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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