Import categories and subcategories manually

Import categories and subcategories manually

Following the article about importing locations to DJ-Classifiedshere's a tutorial on importing categories and subcategories the same way.

To do it, you’ll need to be able to access your database via phpMyAdmin.

Preparing the import file

Create the import file based on the sample file

Creating one easy .csv allows you to import all your categories and subcategories to DJ-Classifieds.

Firstly prepare the .csv file with all the categories and subcategories you want to add (You’ll find the exemplary .csv file below the table of database structure).

To prepare the file, you first need to have the list of your categories and subcategories in any format and then create the .csv file that reflects the database structure of categories in DJ-Classifieds. 

The database structure of the categories in DJ-Classifieds looks like in the table below:

DB column
what is it?
data format
id
category ID
number
name
category name
text
alias
category URL alias
text
parent_id
parent category id
number
price
price for the advert submitted to the category
number
price_special
unused
please leave it blank
description
description of the category
text (HTML)
icon_url
unused (category image is in #__djcf_images table)
please leave it blank
ordering
category ordering
number
published
published or not
0 - unpublished, 1 - published
auto publish
set if the ad should be automatically published
0 - global setting, 1- yes, 2 - no
metakey
meta keywords
text
metadesc
meta description
text
access
access to submission of adverts restricted for specific Joomla groups
0 - no restriction 1 - restricted (restrictions can be set in "#__djcf_categories_groups" [id, cat_id, group_id])
points
price in points
number
ads_disabled
setting if adverts can be submitted or not to this category
type 0 to allow submission, set 1 to restrict submission to this category
theme
theme for category
text (theme's name)
access_view
Viewing Access Level restriction for viewing this category
number (ID of the Viewing Access Level)
access_item_view
Viewing Access Level restriction for viewing adverts from this category
number (ID of the Viewing Access Level)
restriction_18
adults restriction
0 not restricted, 1 restricted
rev_group_id
DJ-Reviews group id used in this category
number
schema_type
the setting for AMP - if using AMP type "product."
text
meta robots
meta robots
text
meta title
meta title
text

Download sample .csv file: Sample DJ-Classifieds categories

First, open your CPanel account and open phpMyAdmin

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When in phpMyAdmin

  1. open your database
  2. and find the DJ-Classifieds categories table and open it (the name of the table will be [yourdbprefix]_djcf_categories )

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Next ( when in categories table ), click „Import” in the top bar. Import categories phpmyadmin

Now you’re ready to import the .csv file.

Import categories to DJ-Classifieds

  1. browse for the .csv file here
  2. make sure to skip the first row (insert „1”)
  3. insert „;” (semicolon) in Columns separated with:
  4. Click „Go”
Imported categories/subcategories are now visible in your DJ-Classifieds installation

There's a slight difference in columns order. Below you can find a video tutorial on how to reorganize columns in phpMyAdmin if needed.  



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