Sorry for probably duplication but I am not technically minded so I do not understand most of the other posts.
I used to have a website hosted by Spruz - I have exported the user data in CSV files. I want to import this data into my Joomla site (hosted by 1and1) so users of the old ste can log in to the new one without signing up again - I have contacted 1and1 multiple times but I haven't got a helpful answer yet.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
If you are not technically minded, then you are going to have to use a third party extension to do this. There are a few here:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/migration-a-conversion/users-import-a-export
Make sure your csv matches the format they require.
If you want to do it manually with a database query, then the users table is where most of the data is stored, but check out what all the other tables starting user_ are saving when a user is created, as you may need to link their id to their usergroup or profile.
http://docs.joomla.org/Tables
(Unless they built your site, then it is very unlikely that web hosts will help with any questions about the website's content. You may need to hire a developer to help you if you get really stuck.)
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I'm trying to search some guidelines to create my first app for a price list. If I search on Google I find only ready system but I'd like to make something customized. My needs are to import a 3-4000 lines excel sheet for products with different measures and give to customers the possibility to make a quotation with their personal discount and place an order our make only a quotation for logged users. Instead for not logged user to see only product without prices. Then I don't know if it's better to make contents downloadable or to load all contents inside the app. I think it's better to download contents, so I can update prices directly without make them download each time an app update. Then a possibility to show some pop-up with products news, sometimes in a month. I'm yet practice with magento, WordPress and sql queries. I think The best for me is to find some kind of cms, for phone app, if they exist. Cross platform maybe the best. To understand something like wish or geek. I wait for your replies. Thank you guys!
I have a site that I'm looking to transfer to Volusion. Importing tabled content into Volusion's a breeze, it's getting it tabled that's an issue. The old site has no real ability to export, nor do I know how to get at it's database. I'm thinking there must be some sort of script I can write to take the content from the frontend and download it in some sort of list that I can put into a CSV, and put into Volusion.
www.twincitygreetings.com
Any suggestions? I'm hoping to get in the image directory as well and download all them for upload to the new site.
You are going to need at the very least a file with product code, product name, weight and price.
Looking at the URL you provided it doesn't appear that the products their follow any type of orderly structure where you can target the images folder or products based on a known piece of information like a products code. Unless the back-end has some type of product export function you may have no choice but to recreate it from scratch.
I don't know if you solved this yet or not, but I would suggest scraping the data providing you have the information on the old site currently. This can be done easily using vbscript and excel, or if you aren't very savvy at coding you could look at a piece of software called mozenda. There are a whole variety of methods that can be used to scrape data, all of them pretty easy to learn with a bit of research. Basically you write a script that will crawl your dom and extract the data (to xml works best in my experience)
Hope this helps.
I'm trying to create a sample ASP.NET MVC application with a ViewModel and onion architecture - very simple online shop.
So as you suppose this shop has products, and each product should have one very small image and when user clicks on that product, he is redirected to a details page, and of course he should see a bigger image of the product.
AT first I thought, it's a simple application, I would (internet) links to the pictures in the database. But then I thought, ok what about when this image is erased from internet, my product will no longer have an image.
So I should store those pictures in the database somehow. I have heard about something called FileStream that is the right way but I found no material to understand what is that.
I hope someone would help me.
There are several options. You could save the picture in the database using a varbinary.
Read here how to read it using MVC.
When you opt for a solution where you split database and file storage, which is perfectly possible, you should consider that it could mean extra maintenance for cross-checking deleted records, etc.
If you choose the last option, the information in the article will mostly suite your needs too.
I am developing multi-sites with drupal.
I have to take care of 10 sites and they need single login
I supposed I need to create separate user database to support that
feature.
i.e 10 sites, 10 database and +1 user database.
Where should I look and modify? User Module? Which lines?
Normally database settings are in settings.php file .
I had export the database and make and working user-database already.
Please kindly try to explain in details thanks.
I don't know the full details of your situation but it sounds like you might benefit from one database with prefixed tables and a shared user table.
See
http://thedrupalblog.com/setting-multi-site-drupal-6-installation-shared-databases-and-single-sign and http://drupal.org/node/201673 (bit outdated but may still be helpful)
I am currently designing a reviews site for video games similar to gamespot am wondering where and if there is an online database that contains information such as name, publisher, release date etc with an API. I dont really want to have to enter each title manually or let users enter the title manually.
Where do these large sites get information like this? I wouldn't think it would be manually. I know for movies IMDB exists.
How would I go about adding it to my database?
Thanks
May I point you to web scraping?
Be sure to read the section legal issues and on well-behaved bots.
There's always Amazon and their product advertising API. Some older, but interesting code snippets can be found on this page.
If you know Perl, there is an amzing module called WWW::Mechanize
Pretty much you can write a script to get to any website and grab any data you need.
So for example you can go to www.gamespot.com, get list like the one below and put them in your database.
http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?platform=1029&mode=all&sort=views&dlx_type=all&sortdir=asc&official=all&tag=games%3Bfooter%3Bmore