Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[numinix]

No the UPC is for internal use only. You could edit the product info display to display it if you wanted to in the same way the weight or other attributes are displayed.

the p. pd. s. are the table names products, products to description, and specials. they are used to identify between product_id in specials, and product_id in products, etc.

[numinix]

UPDATE

Just a quick little bug fix that is not required to be changed but will help make your descriptions and titles display better:

Change lines 318-319 to:

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

This is a reversal of the two lines which formerly appeared like this:

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

[numinix]

Thanks to motti, I decided to take another look at Windows live Product Search and was very pleasantly surprised to see they are now available internationally. As I now have a self-interest in the script, I will be writing a contribution to create bulk feeds. I'm posting this here because the request was made in this thread.

A pre-support thread has been put up and can be accessed at the following link:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=415620

Your support is appreciated.

[batteryman]

No the UPC is for internal use only. You could edit the product info display to display it if you wanted to in the same way the weight or other attributes are displayed.

the p. pd. s. are the table names products, products to description, and specials. they are used to identify between product_id in specials, and product_id in products, etc.

Thank you, I will look into that. But I still need to find out why I got those errors after I loaded the new version of google feeder. What do you think the errors in my last post meant?

[numinix]

I honestly have no clue.

I don't want to clutter this thread with personal modifications to the contribution, so, I am going to add product_weight as an optional configuration selection in the next version so that you will not have these errors. Merry Christmas :)

[numinix]

batteryman, are you able to use the FTP function on the Google Base Feeder?

I've been doing testing to get motti's installation to work. He has redirects to his root from /store/ which made it very confusing and that is why he had two different feed files named differently in two different folders. I installed v1.5.1 on his server and it creates the file instantly without problems.

However, when I attempt to transfer with FTP, it returns connection failed after 40 seconds. I then created a test.php file which is a simple FTP connect script and it also failed with the following error, which I do not receive with the exact same file on my site:

Warning: ftp_login() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in...

I check his PHP version and it is the same as your 4.4.6. My server has 4.4.7. Could everyone who is having problems with the FTP function please post your PHP version.

[numinix]

From Google Base:

File registration is temporarily unavailable.

Notice: File uploading is temporarily unavailable

[batteryman]

Hello,

I do not use the ftp function, I usually go through it manually after it is generated and check to see if there are any illegal characters and modify the column and some of the output the way I wany it to appear and then I use Filezilla to ftp it to the google base server.

I am running PHP 4.4.7 as well. I just moved into a dedicated server for my site and I haven't updated my signature until right now.

I think that maybe there is a conflict between your mod and another I am possibly using.

I have installed:

(IH2) Image Handeler
Google XML Sitemap
Google Analytics
Google Base Feeder (however uninstalled the sql for now until I figure this out)

I also modified the right column to contain my accredidations and the search to hold the Hacker Safe Seal

I checked the files that supposedly gave the errors and I dont se anything wrong with. They appear to be the original zencart file.

Maybe its a mysql version possible?? just guessing now though.

[numinix]

No, the FTP function has nothing to do with MySQL. If it isn't the PHP version then I really am not sure what could be causing the FTP problems.

It's also none of the contributions that you have installed. You may want to contact your host and ask if there is anything that could be blocking the ftp function from connecting to the destination server. Perhaps blocked ports etc.

Post your results back here and if we get the FTP issues resolved I will put it in the readme.txt file.

[batteryman]

Well I'm not having a problem with FTP portion of the module. Its when I install the sql portion of the newest version 1.5.1. My site will not display at all and I get the errors right of the batt.

I will send you a screen shot.