automatic product import via ftp

Folks,
I am a web developer new to Miva (v4.24 hosted at Hostway). My client's IT person wants to schedule a nightly import of products from a flat file that he ftp's from his local machine in a cron job. Is there any doc on the built-in prodimpt.mvc module to know its querystring parameters so client can call it in his cron job to then automatically update his products from the ftp-ed flat file? If not, any workarounds or optional modules (really dont want to spend the $695 for scripting compiler).
Thanks loads.

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automatic product import via ftp



I think the problem is accessing the Miva Product DBF and index files which are
not possible w/o Miva.

> How about creating a good ol' fashioned .bat file via "DOS", then simply
> adding this program to the built-in Windows scheduler? It's been a while,
> but I have successfully used this method in the past to FTP files.
>
> Shane
> www.sunstatemicro.com
>
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> Subject: [mru] automatic product import via ftp
>
> Folks,
> I am a web developer new to Miva (v4.24 hosted at Hostway). My client's IT
> person wants to schedule a nightly import of products from a flat file that
> he ftp's from his local machine in a cron job. Is there any doc on the
> built-in prodimpt.mvc module to know its querystring parameters so client
> can call it in his cron job to then automatically update his products from
> the ftp-ed flat file? If not, any workarounds or optional modules (really
> dont want to spend the $695 for scripting compiler).
> Thanks loads.
>
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automatic product import via ftp



We automatically FTP our product file to our Miva site and then manually use
Copernicus Super Import to overlay the product file. We then manually pack the
files.

I would be nice to automate the import part but apparently its not possible
without the scripting compiler.

Jerry


Quoting Don <[email protected]>:

> I think the problem is accessing the Miva Product DBF and index files which
> are
> not possible w/o Miva.
>
> > How about creating a good ol' fashioned .bat file via "DOS", then simply
> > adding this program to the built-in Windows scheduler? It's been a while,
> > but I have successfully used this method in the past to FTP files.
> >
> > Shane
> > www.sunstatemicro.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> > [email protected]
> > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 10:57 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [mru] automatic product import via ftp
> >
> > Folks,
> > I am a web developer new to Miva (v4.24 hosted at Hostway). My client's IT
> > person wants to schedule a nightly import of products from a flat file
> that
> > he ftp's from his local machine in a cron job. Is there any doc on the
> > built-in prodimpt.mvc module to know its querystring parameters so client
> > can call it in his cron job to then automatically update his products from
> > the ftp-ed flat file? If not, any workarounds or optional modules (really
> > dont want to spend the $695 for scripting compiler).
> > Thanks loads.
> >
> > __________________________________________________ ________________
> > Switch to Netscape Internet Service.
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> http://isp.netscape.com/register
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> >