Froogle Merchant Center merged into GoogleBase

[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! :)

[Woodymon]

Try running googlefroogle.sql (this is the patch for new installs as described in the readme). Then no need to run the other sql patches

From a previous post :

dealbyet_zc2.configuration_group

That may indicate you used "dealbyet_" as your table prefix. Look in phpmyadmin to see the names of your tables. They should all have the same prefix.
See post in this other mod thread for a similar discussion.
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=959

Woody

[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.

[Woodymon]

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

Hmmm... I wasn't aware of that. I understood product_type had to be in the feed. However when your feed is reviewed and if you have specified 'other' without any good reason (e.g. if your products did not fit in a specific category) then you might get rejected.

You can easily edit the DB to support different product types.

The last version of the mod supports:
'book'
'music'
'video'
'other'

Add your own if you like.

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

Currently there is no maintainer of this mod as it is no longer under development by the previous developer. If you have the skills please do update (best to have other folks beta test any updates BEFORE uploading new version).

Woody

[william_c]

Hmmm... I wasn't aware of that. I understood product_type had to be in the feed. However when your feed is reviewed and if you have specified 'other' without any good reason (e.g. if your products did not fit in a specific category) then you might get rejected.

You can easily edit the DB to support different product types.

The last version of the mod supports:
'book'
'music'
'video'
'other'

Add your own if you like.


Currently there is no maintainer of this mod as it is no longer under development by the previous developer. If you have the skills please do update (best to have other folks beta test any updates BEFORE uploading new version).

Woody

Today, I tested all methods to upload Bulk file to google base, it isn't working.
I always get error message. "Bulk upload failure. 0 errors. None of these items are active.", how to resolve the issue. thanks for your help!!!!

[CJ Internet Sales]

Please excuse my interuption but I need a little push in the right direction with this tool.

I am running Zen 1.3.7 and unzipped this utility into the root of my store.

I then opened up the SQL file, copied the script, pasted it into admin/tools/install sql patches and ran the script successfully.

I see the Google Froogle Configuration but do not see Google Froogle Feeder under admin/tools.

Please tell me what step I missed.

[Rupert]

You can easily edit the DB to support different product types.

The last version of the mod supports:
'book'
'music'
'video'
'other'

Add your own if you like.

Woody

Woody, do I just add them to the DB then?
That simple????