Posted by BigAl.NZ on 06/04/07 02:23

Hi Guys,

Hope someone here could help point me in the right direction for this
little project.

I want to get a online computer store up and running.

I get files once weekly from about 12 different distributors. I might
get ASUS video cards from one distributor and Albatron video cards
from another. The problem I have when importing these files to
oscommerce with easy populate is that one distributor might call video
cards "VGA Cards" and another might call them "Graphics Card".

When I import the list of video cards I end up with two catagories,
when in reality there should of course only be one. This happens on a
variety of things, not just video cards.

I need to do some preprocessing to get the files having uniform groups
before they are imported.

I think I can do this with php and some arrays, but its been a while
since i have done php and a outline of the structure or even a few
lines of code would be a great help.

All the files that I get from the distributors are in csv format.

Thanks heaps in advance,

-Al

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