This awesome utility allows you to perform multiple actions in one process.
- Copy (as linked or duplicate) multiple products from one category to another
- Delete multiple products
- Move multiple products
Based on https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?180447-Multiple-Products-(Copy-Move-Delete)
Status as of 2023 04 23: Tested on Zen Cart 158a and php 8.2.5.
This is a complex plugin, although it has been in use on my site for a long time, you may find a bug, so BEFORE making big changes on your production site TEST THOROUGHLY ON YOUR DEVELOPMENT SERVER.
Please report all bugs on GitHub with steps how to reproduce.
- Choose an action.
- Choose a target/destination category (not for delete)
- Search for products to copy/delete by keyword, category, manufacturer or price.
You will be presented with a list of products matching your search terms. Products that are already linked to the destination category will not be listed.
Look over the list and tick the boxes for any product that should be copied, (or uncheck the boxes of products that should not be copied if you had the utility automatically check the boxes for you).
Click the Confirm button and all the checked products will be now linked as Linked (or Duplicated) products in the destination category and a list of products copied will be displayed.
Clicking the "Return To Catalog Entry" button after the copy is done will open the destination category for review.
TEST ON YOUR DEVELOPMENT SERVER FIRST!
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Remove any previous version of this mod as per that version's instructions.
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Copy the files in "ADMIN FOLDER" to YOUR admin directory. All are new files/no core files should be overwritten.
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Refresh the Admin screen. The menu entry should be added to the Admin->Catalog section automatically.
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REQUIRED CORE FILE MODIFICATIONS
Multiple Product Copy requires modifications to two core module files for copy and move
These files are normally used for one product/ are only run once and then redirect to the category listing page.
To allow them to be run multiple times (for multiple copy/move) and to return back to the Multiple Product Copy results, a clause needs to be added around the redirect at the end of each file.The changes required are in these files, which you should have already copied to ADMIN/includes/modules
/ADMIN FOLDER/includes/modules/copy_to_confirm. MPC FOR MERGING php
/ADMIN FOLDER/includes/modules/move_product_confirm. MPC FOR MERGING php
They are named as such to prevent accidental overwriting.
The original ZC158 files are also included for reference/to show the differences.
Compare each file to yours and merge the differences to yours.
If you are using other custom files on your Product Types for the files:
copy_to_confirm.php
move_product_confirm.php
you will need to add the similar IF statement around the redirect on the last line of the file.
a) Use the backup you kept of this installation fileset to compare and delete the files from your site.
b) Copy, paste and run the uninstall SQL in the Admin->SQLpatch tool or phpMyAdmin to remove the admin menu page item.
2023 04 23: minor IDE fettling, fix for confirmation text for moved products, update debug function, update modified core files
2020 06 13 torvista: limitation of search results to not exceed php input_max_vars
2020 05 15 torvista: update of main file and removal of extra functions
2020 02 28 torvista: bugfix to allow language selector dropdown
2020 01 torvista: complete rework
remove table layout
conversion to html with embedded php
expanded error checking for search criteria
Copy-Duplicate
Allow copy-duplicate to the same category
Added duplication of meta tags
Removed duplication of media collection (original version showed option, but was not implemented in code)
added option show images
Results page 2
check/uncheck all selectboxes with javascript
strict comparisons
html validation
2019 10 torvista: put on Github.
2013 Changes to v1392 Added Delete from Linked Category. Added Delete Specials
2011 Multi-Product Copy Utility for Zen Cart ver 1.392 by Linda McGrath 2011-11-15
Originally written for osCommerce as: Multi-Product Copy Utility v1.1 by Kevin L. Shelton 7/28/2010