RO CSVI

16 August 2012 | RO CSVI

When importing a file that contains extended characters like óéí and other like that it can happen that these characters are missing on import when they are the first character. For example the word Østerrike is imported as sterrike.

This is not a bug in CSVI but a misconfiguration on your server. The server needs to use the UTF-8 locale to be able to identify these characters, any other locale will cause this failure. To fix this, you will most likely need to ask your hosting provider as it is a change on the server.

A temporary work-around that can be used is to use the PHP function setlocale. To do that you need to find out what locales are available on your server. This can be done by opening an SSH session to your server and execute the comamnd:

locale -a

Let's say you find your locale to be nl_NL.utf8. You can change the encoding by adding this code to the administrator/components/com_csvivirtuemart/csvivirtuemart.php file or administrator/components/com_csvi/csvi.php:

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'nl_NL.utf8');

This is best placed after the line:

defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' );

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12 February 2025 | RO CSVI

To drop the last character from a field you can use the Replacement feature of RO CSVI.

Remove last character

1. Go to Replacement
2. Make a new entry with the following settings
   • Select the field you want to apply the rule to
   • Find: /(.*)([0-9])$/
   • Replace: $1
   • Type: Regular expression
   • Click on the Add icon
3. Do an import of your template

Remove several characters from the end

To remove 3 characters from the end of your data you can use these steps:

1. Go to Replacement
2. Make a new entry with the following settings
   • Select the field you want to apply the rule to
   • Find: /(.*)([0-9]{3})$/
   • Replace: $1
   • Type: Regular expression
   • Click on the Add icon
3. Do an import of your template

Replace the value 3 between the curly brackets to any number to remove more or less characters

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04 February 2012 | RO CSVI

Why?

The error message Settings not saved happens when the database tables are not correctly installed or not installed at all.

How to fix it?

1. Go to http://xx/administrator/index.php?option=com_csvivirtuemart&view=install (replace xx with your domain name)

2. Choose to do an upgrade

3. When there are no errors, you can save your Settings

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04 February 2012 | RO CSVI

During the import of an XML file, CSVI VirtueMart can show a notice saying:

Warning: XMLReader::readInnerXml() [xmlreader.readinnerxml]: file:///myxml.xml:22: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document in \administrator\components\com_csvivirtuemart\helpers\file\import\xml.php on line 356

When this happens, it means that your XML file is not valid. Make sure that all opened tags have a closing tag.

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27 May 2015 | RO CSVI

There are some plugins that break the functionality of CSVI.

Known plugins to break CSVI are:

• Jomsocial update
• Azrul System Mambot For Joomla
• XAJAX System Mambot For Joomla
• YT Framework plugin
• System - VM Affiliate Tracking Plugin
• shlib cache
• vmVendor

XAJAX

Here is a possible solution to fix the conflict between CSVI VirtueMart and xajax. You need to modify the xajax file following these steps:

1. Go to the folder /plugins/system/xajax.php
2. Open the file xajax.php
3. Find the line that says:
   

   $conflictingExtensions = array ();

4. Below this line add the following line:
   

   $conflictingExtensions [] = 'com_csvivirtuemart';

5. Save the file
6. CSVI VirtueMart should now work without a problem

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