Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[countrycharm]

Thank you for the information this worked out great.

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:

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

Replace that line with:

//      $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); 

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!) 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..