Quote Originally Posted by advplans View Post
Hi,

I'm using Zen 1.3.9h, I have the latest version 1.10.0 of the google merchant feeder installed. I just installed this mod recently, having a tough time working out the issues. I've search this thread and this forum, without finding a clear answer to this, so if I've missed this answer somewhere, sorry in advance.

I'm getting the dreaded

description length: 0 - skipped, price below zero, description length less than 15 chars, or title less than 3 chars - failed

error on probably about 2/3 of my products out of several hundred. From reviewing this thread, I gather the most probable cause is illegal characters in the title or description, but here is what is bugging me.

When I try to troubleshoot, I can delete a product description and replace with just a few lines of text, the product makes it through the feed. Then I can add more of the description back to the product, and it still makes it. Then, I can add my original description back and it makes it through again, even though it didn't make it through before. A few times later, it may puke back out when I run the feed, so what I'm having trouble doing is troubleshooting this error down to a root case. So, my question to the community is:

1. Specifically, on the published addon with no mods, exactly which characters in the description are illegal?

2. Specifically, which characters in the title are illegal?

3. Is there any way around that to make everything legal?

4. Is there anything else that would cause that error? Some of my product descriptions are really long, but some of the really long ones have no issues getting through. If that's an issue, is there a way to address that?

If anyone can help, thanks in advance.
ok, I've stumbled across a fix, so let me post so I can share. I viewed my cache file in my cache directory where my store is located. It kept pointing to an error on line 277 of the google_base.php file in the includes/classes folder, which is fixed by the following post.

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...postcount=2743

Seemed to cure my problem. No idea why, though..... would love it if someone could explain it to my feeble brain, and if there is collateral damage? Of course, I'm not at the point of uploading to google, so maybe thats my next crapola?