Import issues and stability of 1.6

[dmbarnett]

I am new to PrestaShop and am evaluating it for our production server.  I have 1.6.0.6 installed on my test server and have been battalling import for several days.  The first thing I wanted to find out is whether it could handle my data of 1400 categories and 56,000 products.  ( other carts I have tried have failed at this point )  It took 2 days to get the categories imported using my category IDs.  That required forcing the code to accept my ID in the AdminImportController in function categoryImport (using the Force ID option had no effect).  Now that I have that done I am attempting to import the products.  They import OK (albeit slow) but only the first 261.  Then it dies with a white screen and no error message.  To be sure I didn't have a data problem I tried it on several different blocks of data.  It alway dies after importing 260 +- products.  I checked the php.ini and max_execution is set to 0 so it should not be timeing out. It appears that the import routine still has some significant problems and from just browsing the Forum I am begining to wounder how stable 1.6 is and whether it is a bad idea to switch at this time.

Any thoughts on this?

[El Patron]

debug the blank screen at product import for script error message.  if you need help enabling ps error reporting: http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/224525-how-to-turn-on-error-reporting-for-debug-information/

 

then there would be a good idea of what is causing the code failure.

[dmbarnett]

Thanks for that.  It turned out that it was a data problem that I was duplicating category IDs in my product line and therefore trying to add the same record more than once to category.  It would have saved a lot of time however if that type of message were displayed on the backend without have to make .ini changes.  BTW in 1.6 the only file that needs to be modified is the config/defines.inc.php. line (define('_PS_MODE_DEV_' true);

 

Now that that is solved the next error that came up was:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 0 seconds exceeded in /var/www/creative/PrestaShop/classes/ImageManager.php on line 421
 

I thought that max execution set to 0 was suppose to mean no timeout.  Am I wrong?

 

Thanks