auto-import csv file every 10 minutes

You can look at the page
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/6...r-documentation.html
which explains a bit our API for plugins.

More specifically, you can define the function onHikashopCronTrigger
Then, you can call the page index.php?option=com_hikashop&ctrl=cron in
your cron scheduler every 10 minutes so that it triggers this function
of your plugin.
Finally, in that function, you can use that code:

$helper = hikashop::get('helper.import');
$contentFile = file_get_contents($feed_path);
$helper->handleContent($contentFile);


$feed_path needs to contain the absolute path to the csv file. Your
CSV will need to have its headers according to our documentation, or
you will have to add the columnNamesConversionTable parameter to the
$helper object with a conversion array like this for example:

$helper->columnNamesConversionTable = array( 'code' =>
'product_code','name' => 'product_name');

This example suppose that the product code column is called code
instead of product_code which is the name of the column in hikashop
and that the product name column is called name instead of
product_name in your CSV.

Hi,

As I said in my previous post the code should be something like this:
class plgHikashopData_feed extends JPlugin{
function onHikashopCronTrigger(&$messages){
$helper = hikashop::get('helper.import');
$helper->columnNamesConversionTable = array( 'code' =>'product_code','name' => 'product_name');
$helper->createCategories = true;
$helper->overwrite = true;
$helper->header_errors = false;
$contentFile = file_get_contents('PATH_TO_MY_FILE');
$helper->handleContent($contentFile);
}
}

You can post your code, we'll see if we can see something wrong in it.

You need to create a plugin for that and put your code in the plugin and NOT put your code directly in the hikashop controller file.
Here is some information about how to create a plugin :
docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_Plugin_for_Joomla_1.5

In the php file, the class should be: plgHikashopHikashopData_feed because you need to have the group of the plugin (HikaShop) and the plugin name (HikashopData_feed) in the name of the class.

Did you configure your cron ?
If you trigger the cron URL manually (by loading the URL in your browser) does it trigger the plugin ?

What you should do is edit you plugin php file directly in the folder plugins/hikashop and add some traces to see if it goes there.

Add one before the class declaration like this:
echo "before loading class";

one in the class constructor and one in the cron function.
That way, when triggering the url, you will see on your browser the traces if the cron went there.

Did you put a message in the function onHikashopCronTrigger ? Did you see it ?

There were no files in your message. Could you try again to upload your file ?

I've added some traces in the cron function. Let us know how that goes.