Comments on: Introduction to directories for Magento developers

By: JOHN D

JOHN D — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:58:42 +0000

CONCERNING IMPORTING IMAGES IN MAGENTO:

1) When importing products you will need first to create a sample products and run the profile (in your admin–> system->import/export).
The exported file will be then located in yourwebsitemaindirectory/var/export

2) On this CSV file you will see the table field name on the first raw.
Things are pretty straigtforward except for the images file.

3) Images
you have 3 images fields: “image”;”smallimage”;”thumbnail”
“image” is the main image is the main image of your products on your product page.
“smallimage” and thumbnail “thumbnail” are dedicated to the images used in the category view, when all of its products are listed.

In those field simply add your image name preceded by a slash/ and place all your images in the following directory: “media/import”.

never mind if in your export file you see the sample product image directory starting with N/S or M/e, ignore this, simply put your image name preceded by a slash /

4) Import
Then go back to your admin–> system->import/export and run an import profile.

By: neight401

neight401 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:10:10 +0000

Real helpful, great bit. Im learning Magento and the documentation is…… sparse… i found your blog my checking out Magento 1.3: PHP Developer’s Guide (Paperback) on Amazon, google search, and here I am.

Im wrapping my head around the .xml layout system now… hopefully there are more good posts about magento in this blog to discover. an yea, looking foward to the book dropping, thanks again.

By: Jon Winstanley

Jon Winstanley — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:42:51 +0000

Hi Jamie, I found this article via a Google search and only realised it was you when I recognised the favicon from your twitter account. Thanks for the article, I can now rest assured that deleting the contents of my var directory is ok. Cheers! Jon

By: ajay

ajay — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:21:08 +0000

can you please give me the full path to find media/import directory.

Thanks in advance

By: Ajay

Ajay — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:55:38 +0000

awesome article

helped alot for the beginer users

thanks alot

By: Jamie Huskisson

Jamie Huskisson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:51:15 +0000

hmn – it should be in your root Magento folder. So if you Magento installation is in /htdocs/ it will be located at the address /htdocs/var/

By: hmn

hmn — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:36:47 +0000

I really appreciate this post, but I really cant find the place of the var directory from where can i go to it or access it from mmy backend,
Thanks in advance

By: Can Berkol

Can Berkol — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:10:29 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I was getting lost in folder structure for a client project. This post will make things easier :)