Froogle Merchant Center merged into GoogleBase

[Woodymon]

On approx lines 55 and 89 the code:
fwrite($fp, $output);
becomes:
fwrite($fp, utf8_encode ($output));

Thanks Rob. Solution worked perfect.

So everyone is on the right track the above two edits are needed in the googlefroogle.php located in the root of the store.

P.S. To everyone looking for the GoogleFroogle mod, see the sticky in this forum.

Woody

[voltage]

Look at the sticky thread "Contribution Key" at the top of this forum subsection.

Hi
Can anyone pm or email andrews googlefroogle please? How can i get it?

thanks
Z

[ranger_lp]

Hi:

I have seen some other users w/this issue. When connecting to uploads.google.com, I get this error everytime:

Warning: ftp_put(): php_connect_nonb() failed: No route to host (65) in /home/sunfluer/public_html/admin/froogle.php on line 351

Warning: ftp_put(): Entering Passive Mode (72,14,200,3,86,133) in /home/sunfluer/public_html/admin/froogle.php on line 351

<frustrated> Connected To: uploads.google.com Username: xxxxxxxxxxx
uploads.google.com Upload Failed </frustrated>

I can ftp to the site using FileZilla w/no issue.

[mydanilo]

I submitted to google base and it seems it worked but I got an email back with the following: (does anybody have a solution to change the headings?)

Hello,

Good news - the content of your bulk upload has been approved. However, we noticed that there were a few changes you could make to help users find your items:

- Using Froogle attributes (fields)

-----------------
Using Froogle attributes (fields): We noticed that your bulk upload is using attribute names specified in the old Froogle product feed format. For example, you've included "product_url" as an attribute name, although this attribute is named "link" in the Google Base format. Please convert your product feed to the new Google Base format by changing the attributes names in your header line:

http://base.google.com/support/bin/a...y?answer=40443

After you've made any changes, please be sure to re-submit the new version of your bulk upload with the same filename. If you have any questions, or need additional information about these suggestions, do not hesitate to respond to this email.

Sincerely,

The Google Team

[anjordan77]

you have to change the first word under froogle.txt to say
link then upload it
so the top row of your froogle.txt file should read:
link name description price image_url category offer_id

[mydanilo]

Thank you, I figured so much. Editing the heading in the froogle.txt by hand is the quick fix or not so quick if you have to do it over and over again.

1st:This should probably adjusted in the code somewhere so it outputs the correct headings. Did anybody do this already. I am not a coder and do not know where to start. I think many of us would appreciate a code fix for this.

2nd:Will automatic upload work anytime soon in the future?


By the way I changed googlefroogle.php as instructed in this thread and I managed to upload the file to google base. I see all items listed in my account. I did this yesterday and I tried to find my items in Froogle today. Not listed yet. Does anybody know how long it takes for froogle to list me feed? Is something wrong with my files or am I just not patient enough?

:)

[anjordan77]

the fastest way i've done it is go thru the process to generate the froogle.txt file...copy it to your computer, edit that first word...
log into google base...click on the batch upload, then browse to your file and click upload

when i upload with ftp it doesn't work right, same with zencart...so i just do it this way for now.

[a_berezin]

So long nobody could correct four lines?

1. Add Encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8;
2. Use Google Base fields name.

[CBO]

Thank you, I figured so much. Editing the heading in the froogle.txt by hand is the quick fix or not so quick if you have to do it over and over again.

1st:This should probably adjusted in the code somewhere so it outputs the correct headings. Did anybody do this already. I am not a coder and do not know where to start. I think many of us would appreciate a code fix for this.

2nd:Will automatic upload work anytime soon in the future?


By the way I changed googlefroogle.php as instructed in this thread and I managed to upload the file to google base. I see all items listed in my account. I did this yesterday and I tried to find my items in Froogle today. Not listed yet. Does anybody know how long it takes for froogle to list me feed? Is something wrong with my files or am I just not patient enough?

:)

Here is what I have tried and am awaiting results from google base.
Go to the Admin\froogle.php file
In your text editor do an EDIT>FIND on product_url
Change all entries of product_url found to link and save the file.

This seems to work as far as what I can visually see with the file but am waitng on google to read the file so I'll know later.

[CBO]

Ok, looks like it was all good. I have a success indicator on the file I tried already.
all 235 item...up from 110 showing in the list...

whooohooo!