Importing Images

Ok so to import images you first need these columns:

• _media_attribute_id - the attribute_id of media_gallery (see below)
• _media_image - the path of the image, i.e. /some_image.jpg
• _media_lable - the image label, i.e. "My nice image"
• _media_position - the position, 1, 2 etc
• _media_is_disabled - whether the image is excluded from the gallery or not

You do the whole weird multi-line thing to import multiple images. Every image
you use (whether it's in the gallery, or being used for the image, small_image
or thumbnail) needs to be imported initially using the above fields.

_media_attribute_id is the most important field, it needs to correspond to the
media_gallery attribute id, you can find this out by running this SQL:

Copyselect attribute_id from eav_attribute where attribute_code = 'media_gallery';

When you have this structure set up correctly, you can put all your iamges in
media/import and you're all done!

If you want to use any of the images as the image, small_image or thumbnail
then just add the same path you entered in _media_image in the column for the
relevant image.