Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Sorry if this has been posted. I searched the thread for "source" and none of the results looked applicable.

I'm wondering if the latest version of this mod has the capability to add a ?source=googleps to the end of Google Base URLs.

As I understand it, adding that allows us to see Google Base traffic in Google Analytics:

http://base.google.com/support/bin/a...y?answer=25221

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by mydanilo

Did anybody find a solution to this? I am particularly interested to retain the " in my product titles where I give size info like this:

diameter 13"

I guess I could convert to just using

diameter 13 in.

As we have limits on the title length, I would prefer to stick with just " instead of in.

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You have to add some code to the xml sanitizer to make a change. I used the sanitizer to change the " to in for google, leaving my web site as is.

I'm at the station fire in CA, when I get back to my PC I can list the change for you.... it's a simple add a line to the code.

I wonder if anyone can help me out here. I have 726 products listed on my site, 76 of which are sold out. So, when I generate my data feed, it states as it should, 650 generated.

My problems is when I upload the feed to Google. It then states, 630 of 650 inserted.

Why wont it insert all 650?

**UPDATE** I tried uploading my feed as two seperate .xml files, but for some weird reason, both files were missing 20 items. So, I was getting 305 of 325 inserted in each file! It seems that no matter what xml file I upload, Google Base is refusing 20 items every time.

Has anyone experienced anything like this before, or know what could be wrong or where to start searching for a solution?

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Originally Posted by smap

I'm wondering if the latest version of this mod has the capability to add a ?source=googleps to the end of Google Base URLs.

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I added this:

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$link .= '&source=googleps';

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at line 204 of googlefroogle.php (1.7.4) and I think I should be in business.

I have been through this thread, and have not seen a posted solution to this error:

ERROR: fy_un_tp is not a valid feed template

Is there a fix for this.. I am running the latest version of this mod (v1.7.4)..

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Originally Posted by limelites

**UPDATE** I tried uploading my feed as two seperate .xml files, but for some weird reason, both files were missing 20 items. So, I was getting 305 of 325 inserted in each file! It seems that no matter what xml file I upload, Google Base is refusing 20 items every time.

Has anyone experienced anything like this before, or know what could be wrong or where to start searching for a solution?

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One of my problems was with image size. Google wouldn't show an error, just not list the products. For some reason, the code would insert my _LRG images and not the thumbnail images. I edited the code so only the smaller images would be used and that solved the problem. My smaller images are 120px X 120px and under range which is what Google wants.

Firstly, I love this contribution. What a great way to increase revenue to a site.

However (isn't that always the case), does anyone else have a problem with the googlefroogle.php page timing out? I have a lot products (13k) but not a lot of them are active (6k). I wouldn't think that's so many as to bog it down.

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Originally Posted by davewest

You have to add some code to the xml sanitizer to make a change. I used the sanitizer to change the " to in for google, leaving my web site as is.

I'm at the station fire in CA, when I get back to my PC I can list the change for you.... it's a simple add a line to the code.

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Davewest, I am very interested in the line of code. On the other hand I wonder why even sanitize? I see other competitors upload titles with " . Why can't we just leave them there and not sanitize them out at all?

I searched through this thread, so I apologize if this question has been asked before.

I use the feeder and create the file, then upload it to google base. Google base accepts the file.

The problem I am having is the descriptions for each product do not properly show the HTML coding. It bunches it all up with no paragraphs etc. The text is fine, its just the html code seems to not properly take.

Any suggestions?

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Originally Posted by mydanilo

Davewest, I am very interested in the line of code.

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Me too.. I am interested in this code too..:yes:

Hi, We installed Google Base Feeder to a clients ZenCart. To be honest with you, I have no idea what it does. With my busy schedule I haven't even had time to figure this out.

In any case, here is an error I'm getting. Any clues as to what it means?

Google Base Feeder v1.7.4 started 2009/09/25 15:18:28
Feed file - /home/hostingname/hosted/sitename/store/feed/domain_news.xml
Processing: Feed - Yes, Upload - Yes

Error: News and Article Module not Installed!

Thanks

Ok, the issue I had above has seemed to resolved itself. Now do I need to do anything else or do I have to upload a .txt file like the tutorial on googlebase.com says or is it automatically done now?

Thanks

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Originally Posted by mydanilo

Davewest, I am very interested in the line of code. On the other hand I wonder why even sanitize? I see other competitors upload titles with " . Why can't we just leave them there and not sanitize them out at all?

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I format my descriptions and titles using HTML tags. I also use some tags to keep from having errors in MySQL server such as commas and quotation marks. I'm using the RSS 2.0 format for my Google feed which has problems with some HTML tags within xml. On top of it all, Google has it's own formatting you need to consider if you want your feed to display at all. Thus the need for sanitizing it.

Unfortunately, theirs not an easy one fix for all users solution, lest for my limited coding ability. All my quotations are tag as " and for some reason, the & is removed during sanitizing leaving me with quot; which errors in Google. My fix was with this line in \includes\classes\google_base.php Look for the function 'google_base_xml_sanitizer'

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$str = str_replace(array("&lt;", "&gt;"), array("<", ">"), $str);

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with this one

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$str = str_replace(array("lt;", "gt;", "quot;"), array("<", " &qt; ", """), $str);

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My quotation now shows up in titles and description.

Theirs nothing wrong with the code, just with how my titles and description are coded and my refusal to modify 3000 products just to please google.

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Originally Posted by Ladybug

Hi, We installed Google Base Feeder to a clients ZenCart. To be honest with you, I have no idea what it does. With my busy schedule I haven't even had time to figure this out.

In any case, here is an error I'm getting. Any clues as to what it means?

Google Base Feeder v1.7.4 started 2009/09/25 15:18:28
Feed file - /home/hostingname/hosted/sitename/store/feed/domain_news.xml
Processing: Feed - Yes, Upload - Yes

Error: News and Article Module not Installed!

Thanks

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If you click the link to create a news feed, you must have the news module installed as per the error message.

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Originally Posted by wagnerguy

I have actually verified those things.. the only thing that i noticed was that when i deleted the "wp folders" in the directory, then tried to run the feed. i got an error that basically said that froogle was looking for a wp file to finish running the feed.. I added the folders back but deleted some individual files that were not referenced in the warning.


dgarrett20, how did you fix it?

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I've tested the following solution with the Google Base Feeder and found that my implementation guide to integrating Wordpress with Zen Cart will not cause the blank pop-up issue that plagues all users of the WoZ module.

A lot of work is involved, but it works very well. This guide has been implemented on the Numinix Blog.

Hey,
Is it possible for the output to be just a regular .txt file (ie. delimited) instead of XML? I want to modify some of the data in the file for another storefront (make a few changes), but Excel won't open the .xml file ... it says it's not a standard Excel .xml file, adn I open it as text and it basically just shows the XML file, but not in columns/rows.

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Originally Posted by fmckinnon

Hey,
Is it possible for the output to be just a regular .txt file (ie. delimited) instead of XML? I want to modify some of the data in the file for another storefront (make a few changes), but Excel won't open the .xml file ... it says it's not a standard Excel .xml file, adn I open it as text and it basically just shows the XML file, but not in columns/rows.

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Use Easy Populate if you just want a .txt version. The .xml can be opened using any web browser.

I get a google base configuration in my admin but when i go to tools there is nothing there.what up?

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Originally Posted by terius

I get a google base configuration in my admin but when i go to tools there is nothing there.what up?

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The files were not properly uploaded

So Im not sure if this has happened to anyone else but Googlebase changed their site. I have it set to alert me if anything does not get completely processed when it grabs my file and this week I didnt get one. So when i went back to their site, they basically deleted my .xml file and made me create everything else again??

And now their directing ppl to use google merchant center? Is this in any way going to affect the feed file that is created? Has anyone else noticed this yet?

OK...i found my product listings and yes, they were all on the new google merchant center pages. Its nice of them to at least inform users that hey, you dont have to redo anything we just moved it.

This is what they have on their site...

Is Google Merchant Center replacing Google Base?

No, Google Merchant Center is not replacing Google Base. We're just moving the Google Base users that upload or manage Product listings to our new service, Google Merchant Center, in order to better serve them going forward. All Google Base users that upload or manage other item types can continue to use Google Base.

Where should I upload real estate, jobs and vehicles from now on? Aren't these products as well?

Please continue to upload or manage these items in Google Base, as nothing changes for you or these verticals. While some of these items might be considered products in a broader sense, because they don't follow the Products Feed Specification, they're not considered Product listings for Google.

I am an existing Google Base user, where should I upload my items from now on?

If you upload or manage Product listings, please visit Google Merchant Center. If you upload or manage other types of items, please visit Google Base. If you have both types of items (Product listings and non-Product listings), you'll need to visit Google Merchant Center to manage your Product listings and Google Base to manage the rest.

Thanks Dave..

This was a HUGE help for me..

This fixed double quotation (") marks in my client's product descriptions, but not the product titles. (ie: 12-14" Widget) I also needed to add a fix for ampersands (&) used instead of the word "and" in product descriptions. So I modified your change slightly as follows:

In \includes\classes\google_base.php around line 202 find this:

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$str = str_replace(array("&lt;", "&gt;"), array("<", ">"), $str); 


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Replace that line with:

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//      $str = str_replace(array("&lt;", "&gt;"), array("<", ">"), $str);
//        10-01-2009 Updated to correct quotation marks and ampersands in product titles and descriptions
        $str = str_replace(array("lt;", "gt;", "quot;", "&quot;", "amp;"), array("&lt;", " &qt; ", "&quot;", "\"", "&"), $str); 


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When I make these kinds of changes I like to comment out the original code versus simply replacing it and I always include comments so I know WHY I made the change.. (in case I have a senior moment!:laugh:) so if I need to roll back my change I can easily do this.

Like Dave said.. Nothing wrong with the code.. just with how my clients product titles and descriptions are managed needed a little massaging to make Google happy..

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Originally Posted by davewest

I format my descriptions and titles using HTML tags. I also use some tags to keep from having errors in MySQL server such as commas and quotation marks. I'm using the RSS 2.0 format for my Google feed which has problems with some HTML tags within xml. On top of it all, Google has it's own formatting you need to consider if you want your feed to display at all. Thus the need for sanitizing it.

Unfortunately, theirs not an easy one fix for all users solution, lest for my limited coding ability. All my quotations are tag as " and for some reason, the & is removed during sanitizing leaving me with quot; which errors in Google. My fix was with this line in \includes\classes\google_base.php Look for the function 'google_base_xml_sanitizer'

Code:

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$str = str_replace(array("&lt;", "&gt;"), array("<", ">"), $str);

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with this one

Code:

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$str = str_replace(array("lt;", "gt;", "quot;"), array("<", " &qt; ", """), $str);

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My quotation now shows up in titles and description.

Theirs nothing wrong with the code, just with how my titles and description are coded and my refusal to modify 3000 products just to please google.

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I have zencart 1.3.8a that was recently hacked. I had the hack repaired and while I was there, updated the google base feeder mod because of google's changed requirements. Now the mod won't even create a feed (yes, everything was working just fine before). I checked the admin-> configuration and the user name and password had been erased. I re-added those but it still won't 'create' a feed. Simply says "no" with no additional error message.

Now, google has changed everything to that blasted merchant center. I jump through their hoops there and realize under 'ftp' that my user name and password is gone (that did exist under the 'old' google base page, so wtf?). I re-add them, but no it's telling me that MY user name is already in use (yes, by me!) I took the path of least resistence and changed the user name, doing the same on zencart's admin-> config but the mod is still not 'creating' a feed.

Any thoughts at all?

Since the new change to the Merchant interface, has anyone noticed not all their items are being posted? Example, I have 184 products and only 100 are showing on the summary page. Yet, there are no errors reported by google. Any thoughts? It's frustrating.
:frusty:

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Originally Posted by bhunted

Since the new change to the Merchant interface, has anyone noticed not all their items are being posted? Example, I have 184 products and only 100 are showing on the summary page. Yet, there are no errors reported by google. Any thoughts? It's frustrating.
:frusty:

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[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Fixedsys]
[/FONT][/FONT] Check your raw feed to see if everything is as google wants. I had a problem where my feed wasn't listed and no errors showing. Turned out that my large images were being link to and not my thumbnails. I fixed the problem and all my products are listed even after the switch to the Merchant Interface.

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Originally Posted by conspicuouschick

I have zencart 1.3.8a that was recently hacked. I had the hack repaired and while I was there, updated the google base feeder mod because of google's changed requirements. Now the mod won't even create a feed (yes, everything was working just fine before). I checked the admin-> configuration and the user name and password had been erased. I re-added those but it still won't 'create' a feed. Simply says "no" with no additional error message.

Now, google has changed everything to that blasted merchant center. I jump through their hoops there and realize under 'ftp' that my user name and password is gone (that did exist under the 'old' google base page, so wtf?). I re-add them, but no it's telling me that MY user name is already in use (yes, by me!) I took the path of least resistence and changed the user name, doing the same on zencart's admin-> config but the mod is still not 'creating' a feed.

Any thoughts at all?

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The code has been reviewed and nothing has been found. But the mod still won't produce a feed. When the site hack was fixed, the admin page had to be changed to a different name - could that be affecting the mod in some way?

I did find some problems. It's not accepting the products because xml file contains a lot of illegal characters. Seems that when the xml is generated, it's creating whacky characters when it sees apostrophes, some quotes, etc. I have the latest version, but it till messes them up in the xml file. It replaces them with an uppercase A with a little mark above it. Any ideas?

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Originally Posted by davewest

[FONT=Times New Roman]
[/FONT]Check your raw feed to see if everything is as google wants. I had a problem where my feed wasn't listed and no errors showing. Turned out that my large images were being link to and not my thumbnails. I fixed the problem and all my products are listed even after the switch to the Merchant Interface.

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Hey Gang,
We've just tripled the number of products in our store and now when I attempt to create the Google Base file, the popup window comes up, and it runs for 20 seconds or so, and then the browser's status window says "done" ... but in the window, it's nowhere NEAR finished with the ID:, Price, Description - including - success ....

It never finishes, it's clear that it has thousands of products left to include ...

I read back for dozens of pages and searched - seems some folks have had to edit their php.ini file, but i couldn't find WHAT to edit, or what things to change.

Basically, I'm getting about 4000-5000 products added to the file, and it's just stopping - I need it to run and keep including-success until it's finished with ALL the products.

HELP .. thanks!

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Originally Posted by bhunted

I did find some problems. It's not accepting the products because xml file contains a lot of illegal characters. Seems that when the xml is generated, it's creating whacky characters when it sees apostrophes, some quotes, etc. I have the latest version, but it till messes them up in the xml file. It replaces them with an uppercase A with a little mark above it. Any ideas?

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Had the same problems... I had to play with the sanitizer until it worked. If possible, run it so only 20 or 200 products are entered and look at the xml to see if all looks right. Again.. there is nothing wrong with the coding... just me..

Look to includes\classes\google_base.php and look for the function google_base_xml_sanitizer. The following line is where the strange A's are coming from.

Code:

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$str = eregi_replace("[^[:alnum:][:space:].,’Â!()'-_/+=?ÀÂÄßÈÉÊËÎÏÔÖÙÛÜàâäèéêëîïôöùûüÿÇç«»]", "", $str);

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I worked through mine until my feed look good and ended up with this line..

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$str = eregi_replace("[^[:alnum:][:space:].,!()'-_/!\+=?«»]", "", $str);

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Running just a short amount of products through is just to speed things up. One day I'll spend some time in fixing my descriptions so I wont have to modify things.


@conspicuouschick
Check your write access to where the feed is created. Sounds like something is keeping it from working...

Hi,
I am using zencart 1.38a and I installed googlebase and I am having a weird problem

When I click Create Product Feed or Upload Product Feed it opens up the popup http://www.mydomain.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=fn_uy_tp HTTP 404 Not Found Error, but they actually work, it does indeed create the XML file and when I click upload it does upload it to the merchant center...

Any ideas how I can solve this problem??

Thanks in advance!

Hey folks,

Any help with this? :unsure:

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Originally Posted by fmckinnon

Hey Gang,
We've just tripled the number of products in our store and now when I attempt to create the Google Base file, the popup window comes up, and it runs for 20 seconds or so, and then the browser's status window says "done" ... but in the window, it's nowhere NEAR finished with the ID:, Price, Description - including - success ....

It never finishes, it's clear that it has thousands of products left to include ...

I read back for dozens of pages and searched - seems some folks have had to edit their php.ini file, but i couldn't find WHAT to edit, or what things to change.

Basically, I'm getting about 4000-5000 products added to the file, and it's just stopping - I need it to run and keep including-success until it's finished with ALL the products.

HELP .. thanks!

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Originally Posted by fmckinnon

Hey folks,

Any help with this? :unsure:

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Are you seeing any errors in your webserver log files? Just judging on circumstances I'm wondering if you're hitting a PHP timeout or memory limit. If so I think you should see some errors in your webserver log files. Also if I'm on the right track, you should be able to increase the culprit setting in php.ini, bounce Apache and be good to go.

Hey, haven't seen web logs but just installed another module (the one from MagenticOne) and got errors in the output ... the server is timing out. Increasing php.ini to 120 seconds (from 30 sec) for max_timeout and also increased memory limit from 32MB to 64Mb ... well, I should say I've emailed my host and asked them to do it, and restart apache - hoping for the best.

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Originally Posted by fmckinnon

Hey, haven't seen web logs but just installed another module (the one from MagenticOne) and got errors in the output ... the server is timing out. Increasing php.ini to 120 seconds (from 30 sec) for max_timeout and also increased memory limit from 32MB to 64Mb ... well, I should say I've emailed my host and asked them to do it, and restart apache - hoping for the best.

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Create a file named "phpinfo.php" in your Zen Cart document root folder. In it put:

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<?php echo phpinfo(); ?>

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Then hit the file in your browser.

That'll allow you to see what the settings for execution time and memory your Zen installation is using. Sometimes there are multiple "instances" of these settings floating around a server...

Probably don't want to leave this file around for any longer than during your troubleshooting as it poses some degree of security risk.

Good luck.

Er, I forgot in Zen, this same info is also available in the Admin backend. Tools -> Server/Version Info

THAT WORKED! Many thanks... just wish I knew that before I changed about 50 products manually. Spent many hours on this. Thanks thanks thanks! :D:clap:

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Originally Posted by davewest

Had the same problems... I had to play with the sanitizer until it worked. If possible, run it so only 20 or 200 products are entered and look at the xml to see if all looks right. Again.. there is nothing wrong with the coding... just me..

Look to includes\classes\google_base.php and look for the function google_base_xml_sanitizer. The following line is where the strange A's are coming from.

Code:

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$str = eregi_replace("[^[:alnum:][:space:].,’Â!()'-_/+=?ÀÂÄßÈÉÊËÎÏÔÖÙÛÜàâäèéêëîïôöùûüÿÇç«»]", "", $str);

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I worked through mine until my feed look good and ended up with this line..

Code:

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$str = eregi_replace("[^[:alnum:][:space:].,!()'-_/!\+=?«»]", "", $str);

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Running just a short amount of products through is just to speed things up. One day I'll spend some time in fixing my descriptions so I wont have to modify things.


@conspicuouschick
Check your write access to where the feed is created. Sounds like something is keeping it from working...

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Originally Posted by davewest

@conspicuouschick
Check your write access to where the feed is created. Sounds like something is keeping it from working...

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Not sure what you mean - permissions on a specific file?

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Originally Posted by conspicuouschick

Not sure what you mean - permissions on a specific file?

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Make sure the folder /feed/ has 777 permissions. Delete any previously created feeds inside that folder and run the exporter again.

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Originally Posted by numinix

Make sure the folder /feed/ has 777 permissions. Delete any previously created feeds inside that folder and run the exporter again.

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The permissions were already at 777, but I 'reset' them, and deleted a feed. However, when I ran hit 'create' feed, I received this very not illuminating message:


Processing: Feed - No, Upload - No

Hello

I was wondering if this could be possable. I am trying to put a tracker url in my google feed so I can see the conversion rate.

Is there a section in my google base code where I can put a Satic url to be put in from of my products url.

Thanks

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Originally Posted by conspicuouschick

The permissions were already at 777, but I 'reset' them, and deleted a feed. However, when I ran hit 'create' feed, I received this very not illuminating message:


Processing: Feed - No, Upload - No

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As I mentioned earlier, I had to rename the admin folder because of the hack situation. Is there something in that change that could be causing the conflict?

Hey Gang,
I've got a big issue where all of our products are showing up with "FREE SHIPPING' on Google Base. I've got shipping rate setup in my merchant center using Carrier Calculated, the same way I'm using in my store.

I've narrowed down the issue to the xml file generated by this plugin, as it's sending a $0 price, which overrides the settings:

<g:shipping> <g:country>US</g:country> <g:service>Ground</g:service> <g:price>0</g:price></g:shipping>
sorry - this is converting to smilies

My question is ... WHERE IS THIS coming from?
In my Google Base Feeder settings, I've got it set to send weight.

Under Select Shipping Method, I have:
per weight unit

So where is the g : price value coming from??

Hi,

When I installed it, there is no "Google Base Configuration" at :

Admin->Configuration->Google Base Configuration

What happened ? Thanks.

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Originally Posted by fmckinnon

Hey Gang,
I've got a big issue where all of our products are showing up with "FREE SHIPPING' on Google Base. I've got shipping rate setup in my merchant center using Carrier Calculated, the same way I'm using in my store.

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Our feed updated last night (setup for a once a week update) and I just noticed this morning that we've got this problem too.

No idea what changed or of a solution. We haven't changed much on our sites end and no new modules, updates or anything. Since we both have this, presumably new, problem it might be wide spread... especially if google made some changes on their end.

Jeff

I am having the Bullet problem that other have had. I am using the latest version of zen and downloaded the 1.7.4 version of google base feeder. I have to say that when I installed I didn't completly read step 3 that says: "install sql patches AND install Googlefroogle.sql" I only installed the googlefoogle.sql.

Everything worked fine except for the bullet problem. So I went back and started installing patches starting with the update 1.7.3a patch but got this error message:

1062 Duplicate entry 'GOOGLE_BASE_DEBUG' for key 2
in:
[INSERT INTO configuration (configuration_id, configuration_title, configuration_key, configuration_value, configuration_description, configuration_group_id, sort_order, date_added, use_function, set_function) VALUES (NULL, 'Debug', 'GOOGLE_BASE_DEBUG', 'false', 'Turn on simple debug?', @configuration_group_id, 0, NOW(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array(\'true\', \'false\'),');]
If you were entering information, press the BACK button in your browser and re-check the information you had entered to be sure you left no blank fields.

What should be my next steps to get this to work. I really don't want to have to change my product descriptions.

I was successfully using this module and most of my products were listed near the top in listings. Now I am finding out that some of my products that were once search-able are no longer there. They show up in the merchant account, but when I do a specific search for them, they do not show up.
Has anyone had this problem before??
I have 2 sites that are having the same problem with different products. Some products are listed on both sites, one site has them search-able on google products and the other does not and VS.
Thanks for any help!

fresh zencart 1.3.7a install. added easy populate. added google base feeder 1.4.7

My feed gets disapproved no matter how i upload it. Can anyone give me some insight? my site is http://eyedealpostcards.com/catalog

here is a sample of the head and a few items in domain_products.xml :

Code:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">
<channel>
<title><![CDATA[eyedealpostcards.com]]></title>
<link>http://www.eyedealpostcards.com/catalog</link>
<description><![CDATA[Quality Vintage Postcards and Collectables]]></description>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[CHINESE CRESTED DOG Figurine stands Resin NEW DF81]]></title>
<g:brand><![CDATA[Conversation Concepts]]></g:brand>
<g:condition>new</g:condition>
<g:product_type><![CDATA[Figurines]]></g:product_type>
<g:expiration_date>2010-10-14</g:expiration_date>
<g:id>7275</g:id>
<g:image_link>http://eyedealpostcards.com/images/figurines/FigChineseCrestedDF81.jpg</g:image_link>
<link>http://eyedealpostcards.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=7275&amp;currency=USD</link>
<g:price>12.00</g:price>
<g:mpn>DF81</g:mpn>
<g:currency>USD</g:currency>
<g:payment_accepted>Visa</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>MasterCard</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>AmericanExpress</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>Discover</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>PayPal</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>Google Checkout</g:payment_accepted>
<description><![CDATA[NEW, In box. Measures approx 4L x 1.25W x 3.75H.]]></description>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[CHINESE CRESTED Angel Tiny Dog Figurine Resin NEW DTA81]]></title>
<g:brand><![CDATA[Conversation Concepts]]></g:brand>
<g:condition>new</g:condition>
<g:product_type><![CDATA[Figurines]]></g:product_type>
<g:expiration_date>2010-10-14</g:expiration_date>
<g:id>6687</g:id>
<g:image_link>http://eyedealpostcards.com/images/figurines/FigChineseCrestedAngelDTA81.jpg</g:image_link>
<link>http://eyedealpostcards.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=6687&amp;currency=USD</link>
<g:price>9.99</g:price>
<g:mpn>DTA81</g:mpn>
<g:currency>USD</g:currency>
<g:payment_accepted>Visa</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>MasterCard</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>AmericanExpress</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>Discover</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>PayPal</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>Google Checkout</g:payment_accepted>
<description><![CDATA[NEW, In box. 2H x 1.5W.]]></description>
</item>

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Originally Posted by willieray25

fresh zencart 1.3.7a install. added easy populate. added google base feeder 1.4.7

My feed gets disapproved no matter how i upload it. Can anyone give me some insight? my site is http://eyedealpostcards.com/catalog

here is a sample of the head and a few items in domain_products.xml :

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">
<channel>
<title><![CDATA[eyedealpostcards.com]]></title>
<link>http://www.eyedealpostcards.com/catalog</link>
<description><![CDATA[Quality Vintage Postcards and Collectables]]></description>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[CHINESE CRESTED DOG Figurine stands Resin NEW DF81]]></title>
<g:brand><![CDATA[Conversation Concepts]]></g:brand>
<g:condition>new</g:condition>
<g:product_type><![CDATA[Figurines]]></g:product_type>
<g:expiration_date>2010-10-14</g:expiration_date>
<g:id>7275</g:id>
<g:image_link>http://eyedealpostcards.com/images/figurines/FigChineseCrestedDF81.jpg</g:image_link>
<link>http://eyedealpostcards.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=7275&amp;currency=USD</link>
<g:price>12.00</g:price>
<g:mpn>DF81</g:mpn>
<g:currency>USD</g:currency>
<g:payment_accepted>Visa</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>MasterCard</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>AmericanExpress</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>Discover</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>PayPal</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>Google Checkout</g:payment_accepted>
<description><![CDATA[NEW, In box. Measures approx 4L x 1.25W x 3.75H.]]></description>
</item>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[CHINESE CRESTED Angel Tiny Dog Figurine Resin NEW DTA81]]></title>
<g:brand><![CDATA[Conversation Concepts]]></g:brand>
<g:condition>new</g:condition>
<g:product_type><![CDATA[Figurines]]></g:product_type>
<g:expiration_date>2010-10-14</g:expiration_date>
<g:id>6687</g:id>
<g:image_link>http://eyedealpostcards.com/images/figurines/FigChineseCrestedAngelDTA81.jpg</g:image_link>
<link>http://eyedealpostcards.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=6687&amp;currency=USD</link>
<g:price>9.99</g:price>
<g:mpn>DTA81</g:mpn>
<g:currency>USD</g:currency>
<g:payment_accepted>Visa</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>MasterCard</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>AmericanExpress</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>Discover</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>PayPal</g:payment_accepted>
<g:payment_accepted>Google Checkout</g:payment_accepted>
<description><![CDATA[NEW, In box. 2H x 1.5W.]]></description>
</item>

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Please provide the explanation provided by Google

when i click disapproved this is all they tell me.

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Your data feed has been disapproved because some or all of your items are not complying with our Program Policies

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Well, amazingly I've not had any problems per se, everything seems to be working. My only question is, how do you add fields in Zencart to be sent to Google? For example, I'd like to have a field in my product manager for UPC's that will translate over to the 'upc' field in Google (not MPN). But I don't see anything about adding this. At the same time, google is telling me it's not receiving a 'weight' attribute even though my products have a weight attribute. Strange strange.....

I've searched till I'm sick of it. I don't like how all these different problems are mashed into one thread, it makes it difficult to find anything, especially when my problems' keywords trigger so many irrelevant posts.

Thanks!

Thank you for the information this worked out great.

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Originally Posted by DivaVocals

Thanks Dave..

This was a HUGE help for me..

This fixed double quotation (") marks in my client's product descriptions, but not the product titles. (ie: 12-14" Widget) I also needed to add a fix for ampersands (&) used instead of the word "and" in product descriptions. So I modified your change slightly as follows:

In \includes\classes\google_base.php around line 202 find this:

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$str = str_replace(array("&lt;", "&gt;"), array("<", ">"), $str); 


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Replace that line with:

PHP Code:

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//      $str = str_replace(array("&lt;", "&gt;"), array("<", ">"), $str);
//        10-01-2009 Updated to correct quotation marks and ampersands in product titles and descriptions
        $str = str_replace(array("lt;", "gt;", "quot;", "&quot;", "amp;"), array("&lt;", " &qt; ", "&quot;", "\"", "&"), $str); 


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When I make these kinds of changes I like to comment out the original code versus simply replacing it and I always include comments so I know WHY I made the change.. (in case I have a senior moment!:laugh:) so if I need to roll back my change I can easily do this.

Like Dave said.. Nothing wrong with the code.. just with how my clients product titles and descriptions are managed needed a little massaging to make Google happy..

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Originally Posted by countrycharm

Thank you for the information this worked out great.

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Color me shocked!! You mean some of my babblings actually helped someone!!:laugh: You're welcome glad it was of help..

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Originally Posted by DivaVocals

Color me shocked.. You mean some of my babblings actually helped someone!!:laugh: You're welcome glad it was of help..

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I'll take some of those babblings toward my problem :)

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Originally Posted by hypercoyote

I'll take some of those babblings toward my problem :)

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Wish I could help.. but I am always willing to share my findings with the community (accidental and otherwise..:laugh:)

But have you tried going to Numinix's forum too?? I have found some questions and answers posted there that weren't on this support thread... Perhaps someone has posted your same issue there..

Yeah, I think the problem is I don't know what exactly I'm searching for.

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Originally Posted by hypercoyote

Yeah, I think the problem is I don't know what exactly I'm searching for.

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I have help in this thread for a while now but you would have to ask Numinix's for what you want to do. sorry I'm not able to help. You can ask over at his form here

lol, yeah I did. They suggested installing Auction Attribute Site. This did add the UPC fields and all that, but it still wasn't putting it in the XML when I generated it. So when I asked about that, they said the feeder didn't support Auction Attribute Site.....WHAT?

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Originally Posted by hypercoyote

lol, yeah I did. They suggested installing Auction Attribute Site. This did add the UPC fields and all that, but it still wasn't putting it in the XML when I generated it. So when I asked about that, they said the feeder didn't support Auction Attribute Site.....WHAT?

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I see your point. I just went over their and seen what he had to say. Kind of pointless.

Yeah, the thing is, if the documentation was better, I could figure it out myself. But I don't really understand how this module works, so I can't figure out where to fix it. Otherwise I would just add some code to the php that creates the xml file to have it grab those extra attributes.

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Originally Posted by hypercoyote

Yeah, the thing is, if the documentation was better, I could figure it out myself. But I don't really understand how this module works, so I can't figure out where to fix it. Otherwise I would just add some code to the php that creates the xml file to have it grab those extra attributes.

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Actually... it's not that hard! Look in the add-ons for ubc/isbn mod or click...

This mod "Creates UPC and ISBN input field in products.php and stores the information in the products TABLE in the database." It doesn't display them, just creates what the feeder needs.

Once you install and add all your UPC's, then you can use them as the offer ID or by them self, with a simple click in the admin googlebase feeder settings.

The code looks like it may be looking for the auction mod as will so you may have to install it too.

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Originally Posted by willieray25

when i click disapproved this is all they tell me.

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Try changing the expiration date to 31. Google doesn't seem to like expirations 365 days into the future.

See if that makes a difference...
JOhn ><>

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Originally Posted by davewest

Actually... it's not that hard! Look in the add-ons for ubc/isbn mod or click...

This mod "Creates UPC and ISBN input field in products.php and stores the information in the products TABLE in the database." It doesn't display them, just creates what the feeder needs.

Once you install and add all your UPC's, then you can use them as the offer ID or by them self, with a simple click in the admin googlebase feeder settings.

The code looks like it may be looking for the auction mod as will so you may have to install it too.

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I'll check it out and get back to you. Thanks for the info!

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Originally Posted by davewest

Actually... it's not that hard! Look in the add-ons for ubc/isbn mod or click...

This mod "Creates UPC and ISBN input field in products.php and stores the information in the products TABLE in the database." It doesn't display them, just creates what the feeder needs.

Once you install and add all your UPC's, then you can use them as the offer ID or by them self, with a simple click in the admin googlebase feeder settings.

The code looks like it may be looking for the auction mod as will so you may have to install it too.

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Originally Posted by hypercoyote

I'll check it out and get back to you. Thanks for the info!

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Yeah, this doesn't really help. All it does is add the UPC fields to the form where you fill out the product info. I was able to get that once I installed Auction Site Attributes. What I need is for Google Base Feeder to pull in those records from the table to the XML file it outputs.

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Originally Posted by hypercoyote

Yeah, this doesn't really help. All it does is add the UPC fields to the form where you fill out the product info. I was able to get that once I installed Auction Site Attributes. What I need is for Google Base Feeder to pull in those records from the table to the XML file it outputs.

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If both auction and upc area installed and you turned them on in admin -> Configuration -> Google Base Feeder Configuration -> Activate Auction Site Attributes

Then upc should show up and you could also use it for the offer ID. If not, then something else must be going on.

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Originally Posted by davewest

If both auction and upc area installed and you turned them on in admin -> Configuration -> Google Base Feeder Configuration -> Activate Auction Site Attributes

Then upc should show up and you could also use it for the offer ID. If not, then something else must be going on.

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Thank you! Yeah, I didn't realize there was even an option to activate ASA on base feeder.

Okay, as far as I can see, it's pulling everything into GB feeder. Of note is the product_type field is only set to 32 characters (at least on my installation it was), which doesn't allow much room for Google's category tree. I increased the size of that field in my products table to 100 characters using PHPMySQL, which I think will be enough for any category. I may bump it up a bit more. It looks like the feeder picks up the extended field without any problem. So that is one major problem solved, thanks a lot!

Now, does anyone know a solution or fix to the no-space problem in the product description? After feeder strips out the HTML, it doesn't replace the line breaks with spaces, so much of the text runs together. If I knew where the code for that was, I'd replace it myself or add an exception for < br > tags to be replaced with spaces.

edit - ignore this post

Wow, the santizer is causing more problems than just absence of spaces. It's stripping off the '&' in my categories as well (Media &gt; DVDs &amp; Videos) which results in gibberish to google feeder. Instead of translating to (Media > DVDs & Videos), it's just seeing it as (Media gt; DVDs amp; Videos).

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Originally Posted by hypercoyote

Wow, the santizer is causing more problems than just absence of spaces. It's stripping off the '&' in my categories as well (Media &gt; DVDs &amp; Videos) which results in gibberish to google feeder. Instead of translating to (Media > DVDs & Videos), it's just seeing it as (Media gt; DVDs amp; Videos).

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Look a coupla pages back in this thread.. I posted my fix for the ampersands as well the fix for quotations in description and product titles.... my fix incorporates Dave's fix for the "<" and ">" characters..

If you would be so kind as to post how you addressed the spaces, that would be nice??:smile:

I'll give that fix a shot. LOL, the only thing I could come up with was to put a space at the end of each of my lines in the HTML. Very low tech, but it worked.

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Originally Posted by DivaVocals

Look a coupla pages back in this thread.. I posted my fix for the ampersands as well the fix for quotations in description and product titles.... my fix incorporates Dave's fix for the "<" and ">" characters..

If you would be so kind as to post how you addressed the spaces, that would be nice??:smile:

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Is this the fix:

// $str = str_replace(array("&lt;", "&gt;"), array("<", ">"), $str);
// 10-01-2009 Updated to correct quotation marks and ampersands in product titles and descriptions
$str = str_replace(array("lt;", "gt;", "quot;", "&quot;", "amp;"), array("&lt;", " &qt; ", "&quot;", "\"", "&"), $str);

I put it in my code but as far as I can tell, it didn't make a difference. When you put in &'s and >'s, do you store them in XML friendly format into your table or do you store them in plain format? I actually have it in their both ways

Media > DVDs & Videos

and

Media &gt; DVDs &amp; Videos

both of them still come out as

Media gt; DVDs amp; Videos

in the feeder xml.

I mean, do I need to put quotes around them or do something else?

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Originally Posted by DivaVocals

Look a coupla pages back in this thread.. I posted my fix for the ampersands as well the fix for quotations in description and product titles.... my fix incorporates Dave's fix for the "<" and ">" characters..

If you would be so kind as to post how you addressed the spaces, that would be nice??:smile:

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Originally Posted by hypercoyote

Is this the fix:

// $str = str_replace(array("&lt;", "&gt;"), array("<", ">"), $str);
// 10-01-2009 Updated to correct quotation marks and ampersands in product titles and descriptions
$str = str_replace(array("lt;", "gt;", "quot;", "&quot;", "amp;"), array("&lt;", " &qt; ", "&quot;", "\"", "&"), $str);

I put it in my code but as far as I can tell, it didn't make a difference. When you put in &'s and >'s, do you store them in XML friendly format into your table or do you store them in plain format? I actually have it in their both ways

Media > DVDs & Videos

and

Media &gt; DVDs &amp; Videos

both of them still come out as

Media gt; DVDs amp; Videos

in the feeder xml.

I mean, do I need to put quotes around them or do something else?

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LOL, I guess it would help if I actually read the post and went to line 202. I did a Find on the code to replace instead and ended up on an earlier line. So the code actually did work, although it has one error, it replaces 'gt' with 'qt' (a Q), so after fixing that, it seems to be working :)

bookmarked and b back l8er, bro, :-)

Hi

Can anyone help? I think I have set all parameters up correctly on Google Base feeder. I have also set up the FTP account on google as I tested using filezilla and it connects fine. However When I click on the:

Upload Product Feed: Click [HERE] to upload products feed to Google Base.

I get the following message:

Google Base Feeder v1.7.4 started 2009/10/25 13:02:44
Feed file - /home/fancie/public_html/feed/domain_products.xml
Processing: Feed - No, Upload - Yes
Upload started...
Connection failed: uploads.google.com

Upload failed...

Am I just being thick? The FTP details are all correct in the configuration also.

Please can anyone advise???

Regards,
Phil

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Originally Posted by philip937

Hi

Can anyone help? I think I have set all parameters up correctly on Google Base feeder. I have also set up the FTP account on google as I tested using filezilla and it connects fine. However When I click on the:

Upload Product Feed: Click [HERE] to upload products feed to Google Base.

I get the following message:

Google Base Feeder v1.7.4 started 2009/10/25 13:02:44
Feed file - /home/fancie/public_html/feed/domain_products.xml
Processing: Feed - No, Upload - Yes
Upload started...
Connection failed: uploads.google.com

Upload failed...

Am I just being thick? The FTP details are all correct in the configuration also.

Please can anyone advise???

Regards,
Phil

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Bear with me. You said you have the settings correct, but just to be thorough....

First, have you set up an FTP account with google merchant? It's under settings -> FTP I believe. Make sure that matches up with your GoogleBase settings. Also, under Google Base Feeder Configuration on Zen Cart, I had to set Use PASV to FALSE instead of the default value of True.

Next, can you manually FTP into the server? If you don't have software, just pull up a command prompt in Windows by going to Run on the start menu and typing CMD and hitting enter. Then type FTP UPLOADS.GOOGLE.COM and use the username and password you set up on Google Merchant site. If you can't login manually using your username and password, then the problem lies with those. If you can login manually, then the problem is with your site settings.

By the way, does anyone know why base feeder won't pass a 'weight' attribute to the XML? I've got values in both weight and weight type. I assume the feeder combines those into one attribute called weight, but apparently it doesn't. Or has someone come up with a fix for this?

Here's a suggested easy fix for adding spaces in the generated XML where there used to be <br> or <li> that created the line breaks.

Around line 185 of store/includes/classes/google_base.php, replace this:

$str = str_replace(array("\t" , "\n", "\r"), ' ', $str);

with this:

$str = str_replace(array("<br />","</li>","\t" , "\n", "\r"), ' ', $str);

And it will add a space at the end of bulleted lists and line breaks. This is assuming your break tags are formatted the way zencart formats them, <br /> as opposed to <br>. This is because it will only replace those that match the arguments in the list.

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Originally Posted by hypercoyote

Here's a suggested easy fix for adding spaces in the generated XML where there used to be <br> or <li> that created the line breaks.

Around line 185 of store/includes/classes/google_base.php, replace this:

$str = str_replace(array("\t" , "\n", "\r"), ' ', $str);

with this:

$str = str_replace(array("<br />","</li>","\t" , "\n", "\r"), ' ', $str);

And it will add a space at the end of bulleted lists and line breaks. This is assuming your break tags are formatted the way zencart formats them, <br /> as opposed to <br>. This is because it will only replace those that match the arguments in the list.

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Or you could just add another argument to the list to cover all bases..:smile: (Like clients who don't know how to format line breaks as <br /> no matter how many times you show them:laugh:)

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Originally Posted by DivaVocals

Or you could just add another argument to the list to cover all bases..:smile: (Like clients who don't know how to format line breaks as <br /> no matter how many times you show them:laugh:)

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Yep, sure could. I didn't bother because if you are working in the catalog interface, even if you try to do <br>, zencart will replace it with <br />

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Originally Posted by hypercoyote

Yep, sure could. I didn't bother because if you are working in the catalog interface, even if you try to do <br>, zencart will replace it with <br />

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True enough..:smile:

BTW.. Thanks for sharing your code..:smile: Gonna update the client site tonight..

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Originally Posted by DivaVocals

True enough..:smile:

BTW.. Thanks for sharing your code..:smile: Gonna update the client site tonight..

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Heh, no problem, it's not that clever anyway. Just make sure it's inserted where that other code is, it has to run before the HTML code santizer function or that will strip out the <br> tags first.

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Originally Posted by DivaVocals

True enough..:smile:

BTW.. Thanks for sharing your code..:smile: Gonna update the client site tonight..

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Hey, do me a favor. When you update your code, generate a feed and send it to google. I think that's the only change I made between now and my last successful feed upload, but all my items now receive an error that the quantity must be greater than 0 and two items say they have invalid words in the title. Not really sure why spaces would cause all those problems.....but it's late, so I'll look into it more tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by hypercoyote

Hey, do me a favor. When you update your code, generate a feed and send it to google. I think that's the only change I made between now and my last successful feed upload, but all my items now receive an error that the quantity must be greater than 0 and two items say they have invalid words in the title. Not really sure why spaces would cause all those problems.....but it's late, so I'll look into it more tomorrow.

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What the heck. Okay, took out the change, still getting those errors. Did Google change something? I've even set in the GB config the default quantity is 1 for items with 0 and to not include items with quantity of zero. Checking the XML file, it's not even including a quantity attribute at all. What gives?

Okay, new problem. How do you get Google to use your calculated USPS and UPS shipping rates? The only options I see for shipping methods are:

zones table rate
flat rate
per item
per weight unit
table rate
zones
percategory
free shipping
free rules shipping

Of which I use none of those. Is it a PHP edit and if so, where at?

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Originally Posted by hypercoyote

Okay, new problem. How do you get Google to use your calculated USPS and UPS shipping rates? The only options I see for shipping methods are:

zones table rate
flat rate
per item
per weight unit
table rate
zones
percategory
free shipping
free rules shipping

Of which I use none of those. Is it a PHP edit and if so, where at?

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Okay, scratch half of that. I have google base feeder set to None for the shipping rates, which means it should pull my shipping settings from Google's site itself, where I have setup 3 services. However, still nothing shows up for shipping when I go through the checkout process via google's site.

Weirdly the  (weird A) fix didn't work for me:

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Originally Posted by bhunted

THAT WORKED! Many thanks... just wish I knew that before I changed about 50 products manually. Spent many hours on this. Thanks thanks thanks! :D:clap:

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I had to add the ultra low tech:

$str = eregi_replace("Â", "", $str);

line below it to correct the problem. I don't get why it isn't caught in the line :

$str = eregi_replace("[^[:alnum:][:space:].,!()'-_/+=?ÀÂÄßÈÉÊËÎÏÔÖÙÛÜàâäèéêëîïôöùûüÿÇç«»]", "", $str);

Which already exists in the code as the character is obviously in the list, but it doesn't work, so that's that...

Cheers all contributors for this thread for the leads that have helped me fix my problems so far!:clap:

I just noticed that Google is asking for a new field in the Base Feed. This field should indicate items that are on-line only items versus those that are available in a storefront. Has their been an update to the code for this? If not, will one be forthcoming?

Thanks

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Originally Posted by dkhoward

I just noticed that Google is asking for a new field in the Base Feed. This field should indicate items that are on-line only items versus those that are available in a storefront. Has their been an update to the code for this? If not, will one be forthcoming?

Thanks

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Does it result in a fatal error, as in, your items are rejected or is it just a warning?

Okay, new issue which just randomly happened all of a sudden. Before, when I copied an item it also copied the Auction Site Attributes as well, weight type, measurements, category, etc etc. Well, all of a sudden it is no longer copying those attributes and I can't figure out why or what changed to do this. Literally the only thing I can think of is that I changed the item_max from 1 to 0 in the product add page. I don't know how that would make this happen.

In addition, when I make a copy, it always sets the l/w/h to 12/12/12, the weight type to lb and the dim type to cm. I have no idea where it's getting these values anyway...

OK - just scanned 189 pages and didn't see it... so:

We are using 'non-standard' category headings since our store is rather non-standard in itself... and now I see it's coming back to bite us in the XML under 'product_type'.

Rather than:
"Clothing &amp; Accessories &gt; Clothing Accessories &gt; Hats"
we have:
"Current styles" or "Limited Editions" or "Fez-o-Shirts"

and that's carrying over to the XML - but I'd like to be able to follow some guidelines *smirk* and for the hats, make it say the google category... shirts, etc.

Is this something that I should just hard code in the sanitizer area, or in the product area? or?

Can any maven sport the code? (since I'm still a novice) If I know where to put it, and what it looks like, I can make changes/additions from there.

Thanks!

Second thought...

We have options and items that we don't really want on the Shopping page for Google - is there an existing mod to add to the products desc to NOT be included in the google_base run?

Is this a 'suggestion box' item for a future update? If so, make the default to all 'on' ;)

Or, is it down to manual editing and uploading?

Tag!

What is the latest version available for this Feeder?

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Originally Posted by chewie49

What is the latest version available for this Feeder?

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1.7.4 is the latest I've seen. This is their official download page:

http://www.numinix.com/zen-cart/mark...le-base-feeder

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Originally Posted by hypercoyote

1.7.4 is the latest I've seen. This is their official download page:

http://www.numinix.com/zen-cart/mark...le-base-feeder

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I have version 1.6.16...Is there much difference with 1.7.4?

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Originally Posted by kburner

I have version 1.6.16...Is there much difference with 1.7.4?

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Check the changelog on the link I provided, it tells you what they changed. Usually you want the newest version.

I have had this mod installed for a while now with no problems until a couple days ago when I resubmitted our feed a 2/3 of our items were kicked out because of encoding errors related to the description field.

Thinking something had gone awry, I installed the newest release and still having the problem.

Anyone else having similar problems?

Hi! sorry if this has been mentioned before, I searched but nothing came up and i dont have time to read over 180+ pages of postings.

Is it not as simple as going through Zen Admin>Tools>EasyPopluate>Downlad Froogle .txt file and uploading it to Google Base as a Data Feed?
:unsure:

If not, what would the steps we would need to take to get our stuff on there? Is there a download or something to integrate into ZenCart?

Thanks for your time!

Allison



MoonbeamSoyCandles.com

I SWEAR I am not being a smart a$$ here...:smile: Just wanted to point out a few things..:smile:

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Originally Posted by moonbeamsoycandles

Hi! sorry if this has been mentioned before, I searched but nothing came up and i dont have time to read over 180+ pages of postings.

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Hence the reason you missed this post #1894 (just a few posts above yours on this page..):smile:

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Originally Posted by moonbeamsoycandles

Is it not as simple as going through Zen Admin>Tools>EasyPopluate>Downlad Froogle .txt file and uploading it to Google Base as a Data Feed?
:unsure:

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You should pose this question on the EZ Populate support thread. This is the support thread for the Google Base Feeder module..:yes:

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Originally Posted by moonbeamsoycandles

If not, what would the steps we would need to take to get our stuff on there? Is there a download or something to integrate into ZenCart?

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Again.. look a few posts up at post #1894. Install the Google Base Feeder module to submit your feeds to Google..

I've made the fix as below for ampersands and quotation marks in titles and descriptions. It seems to work for some products, but not all or them. It even seems to have stopped working for some products. I have fewer products being listed. I have not made any other changes. Can anyone figure a reason for that?

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Originally Posted by davewest

I format my descriptions and titles using HTML tags. I also use some tags to keep from having errors in MySQL server such as commas and quotation marks. I'm using the RSS 2.0 format for my Google feed which has problems with some HTML tags within xml. On top of it all, Google has it's own formatting you need to consider if you want your feed to display at all. Thus the need for sanitizing it.

Unfortunately, theirs not an easy one fix for all users solution, lest for my limited coding ability. All my quotations are tag as &quot; and for some reason, the & is removed during sanitizing leaving me with quot; which errors in Google. My fix was with this line in \includes\classes\google_base.php Look for the function 'google_base_xml_sanitizer'

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$str = str_replace(array("&lt;", "&gt;"), array("<", ">"), $str);

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with this one

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$str = str_replace(array("lt;", "gt;", "quot;"), array("<", " &qt; ", """), $str);

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My quotation now shows up in titles and description.

Theirs nothing wrong with the code, just with how my titles and description are coded and my refusal to modify 3000 products just to please google.

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After some discussion on Google Merchant Center forum, The last email from Google said that the reason my products are not showing up within Google Products is ....

"because while processing your items most of the items landing pages were not functioning. Please ensure your URLs are functional
all the time and resubmit your data feed without changing the file name."

Can someone tell me what it means that my items landing pages are not functioning ?