Gossamer Forum: Products: Gossamer Links: Development, Plugins and Globals: Data Import plugin question??

Dinky · Sep 23, 2004, 2:56 AM

On the data_import plugin, everything works fine, except for the category thing...
If you select, say field 10 to be the default category and it is separated by /'s, (example: Dogs/Breeds/Yorkshire), everything works fine, but some of the data feeds are separated by >'s or even periods... Is there anyway for the import to either automatically recognize these, or have a selection to choose what is the separator for the categories???

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Andy · Sep 23, 2004, 3:21 AM

Unfortunatly this isn't supported yet.

To get around this problem, you could try editing /admin/Plugins/Data_Import.pm, and find;

Line 422;

Code:
$cat_name =~ s/^\///;  # get rid of leading slashes... as we dont need these...

...and add;

Code:
      $cat_name =~ s/\>/\//;  # get rid of leading slashes... as we dont need these... 
      $cat_name =~ s/\Q&gt;/\//;  # get rid of leading slashes... as we dont need these...

... and the same, just ABOVE;

Code:
      my $fatherid = $DB->table('Category')->select( ['ID'],{ Full_Name => $cat_name })->fetchrow;

(line 560~)

.. and add the same line of code.

Let me know how it works :)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk