Given you have Magento and a Magmi installed you want to leverage the comfort of importing product from Magento admin and the performance of Magmi import.
- Magento (http://www.magentocommerce.com/download)
- Magmi (http://sourceforge.net/projects/magmi)
Copy contents of app folder into the app folder on your web server (extension installation step) and copy contents of folder magmi_files into the folder containing your magmi installation (probably magmi).
To use the integration you will have to create a dataflow advanced profile (System => Import/Export => Dataflow - Advance Profiles) with at least the adapter paramether set to magmiimport/convert_adapter_product
For example I've used this xml for the demo:
<action type="magmiimport/convert_parser_magmi" method="parse">
<var name="filename"><![CDATA[products.csv]]></var>
</action>
Magmi folder location can be set in System/Configuration/Catalog/Magmi Import.
- demo file for import
- check for content errors before import
- fire observers after magmi run
- importing images
- use magento database connection (currently there is no chance w/o modifying magmi)
- use magento dataflow parser
- plugins from magmi?