Froogle Merchant Center merged into GoogleBase

[NamSingh]

Woody,

Google have started rejecting my feed due to now unsupported field "label" and also they are not allowing the product type to be called "other". I've had a look at the feed and the easiest way to fix is to rename the label field and call it product_type. Have you already done this or should I get hacking code?

[numinix]

Woody,

Google have started rejecting my feed due to now unsupported field "label" and also they are not allowing the product type to be called "other". I've had a look at the feed and the easiest way to fix is to rename the label field and call it product_type. Have you already done this or should I get hacking code?

This member seems to have an idea of how to overcome the product types issue. If someone can implement this, please upload it right away .

[Rupert]

ditto :)
The product type problem is definitely an issue.
Anyone with a hack?
The best solution would be to be able to set the field in the admin as either a category is set up, or by product.

[NamSingh]

The hack is easy, I just forgot to post sorry.

Open up the file googlefroogle.php in thr ROOT folder of your website.

Search for the following and un-comment them as the are no longer supported by Google Products as it's now called and not needed either.

Find

$output["label"] = "product_type";
$output["product_type"] = "product_type";

Replace with

// $output["label"] = "product_type";
// $output["product_type"] = "product_type";

They are around lines 110-111 I think.

[Rupert]

Do you mean:

$output["label"] = "label";
$output["product_type"] = "product_type";

???

[NamSingh]

lol Yes, sorry I used the code from where I was testing, but google want you to use their wordings for the product type which is not possibly or feasible unless you re-organise your own database category names etc.. I'm not at my home machine at the moment so was pasting code from my test file

replace

$output["label"] = "label";
$output["product_type"] = "product_type";

with

// $output["label"] = "label";
// $output["product_type"] = "product_type";

Works fine, my feed got accepted quickly afterwards.

[Rupert]

Thanks! :)

[numinix]

lol Yes, sorry I used the code from where I was testing, but google want you to use their wordings for the product type which is not possibly or feasible unless you re-organise your own database category names etc.. I'm not at my home machine at the moment so was pasting code from my test file

replace

$output["label"] = "label";
$output["product_type"] = "product_type";

with

// $output["label"] = "label";
// $output["product_type"] = "product_type";

Works fine, my feed got accepted quickly afterwards.

So Google accepts the file without having a product type at all?

Thanks, for the fix, I hope you update the downloads section to avoid a lot of other people running into the same problem.