Rebel Tech Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 Good evening. I have a quick question. Background Info: Using Zen cart Migrating to Prestashop Zen Cart has over 10000 products Zen Cart has over 10000+ images I am going to export my Zen Cart categories and products only (to .csv) - however, how does Prestashop handle the import of images? Must I copy them as they are in my zen cart directory (e.g images/intel_cpu/image1.jpg) to my prestashop directory (e.g img/intel_cpu/image1.jpg) or what is the best way to link products images to the correct product? Must I regenerate my thumbnails to automatically assign to the product and prestashop will do the correct image naming (eg img/p/9/9.jpg)? I am using eMagicOne but need to get the export/import done correctly first. Also, any way to clear all the test data that was used during the setup of Prestashop? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueWaveLimited Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 If they already exist on the same server you can load them from where they are. If they are on another server I believe that you can give an image URL to your existing images in the CSV. It's best to try this with one or two product/image before wasting a lot of time with a large import. Prestashop doesn't import very fast per product so importing 10000 products is probably going to cause PHP to time out. You may (will?) need to divide the import into smaller CSV's and import each one separately. How large each of these is depends on the speed of your server. If you need help with the import you can contact me at the address below. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Tech Posted October 17, 2013 Author Share Posted October 17, 2013 If they already exist on the same server you can load them from where they are. If they are on another server I believe that you can give an image URL to your existing images in the CSV. It's best to try this with one or two product/image before wasting a lot of time with a large import. Prestashop doesn't import very fast per product so importing 10000 products is probably going to cause PHP to time out. You may (will?) need to divide the import into smaller CSV's and import each one separately. How large each of these is depends on the speed of your server. If you need help with the import you can contact me at the address below. So let me get this right - if I move my images from zencart/images/cpu_intel/ to prestashop/img/cpu_intel/ (located on the same server) then Prestashop will do the hassle of recreating the thumbnails etc (using the Regenerate thumbnails script)? Will it create the it's own image folder (i.e the standard img/p/1/xxx.jpg)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueWaveLimited Posted October 17, 2013 Share Posted October 17, 2013 You don't need to move them if they are on the same server and the import has access to the old image directory. Just give the absolute file name in the import CSV and that's it. Yes, prestashop will create whatever image directories it needs. As I said, try it on one or two products. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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