Joomshopping Special: Lib Ie

Lib IE — Import/Export Library for JoomShopping

A shared PHP library that provides a ready-to-use toolkit for building product import and export addons in JoomShopping 5.x.

What it includes:

Entity resolvers — Category, Attribute, Manufacturer, Tag, Currency, Tax, Unit, Label, DeliveryTime, UserGroup, FreeAttribute, CharacteristicField, CharacteristicValue — each class finds an existing record by name or creates a new one automatically, with in-memory caching to avoid duplicate DB queries Image handling — download product images from URL or Google Drive, auto-detect file format, generate all three JoomShopping image sizes (full / middle / thumb) in one call File utilities — base64 decoding, duplicate removal by filename, safe file saving with auto-rename General helpers (MMLib) — date format conversion, encoding conversion, ASCII filename normalization, URL sanitization, array merging For developers:

The library lives in namespace Joomla\Component\Jshopping\Site\Lib\Ie and is installed as a JoomShopping addon. Import addons that depend on it simply use the required classes — no setup needed. All entity classes share the same pattern: $id = $obj->getId($name) — find or create, always returns an integer ID.