Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[yellow1912]

I use this in my setting: uploads.google.com (without the ftp://)

[rxalex]

yep had this aswell uploads.google.com but upload failed

[yellow1912]

I use Google Base Feeder v.1.6.0 16.09.2007 (downloaded from numinix's site)

[rxalex]

Thanks I will upgrade what do I do with the sql file uninstall or updates how would I do this?

[rxalex]

Oh no I upgraded but have double of:
INSTRUCTIONS:
STEP 1: Click [HERE] to create / update your products feed.
NOTE: You may view your product feed file before proceeding to step 2.
STEP 1: Click [HERE] to create / update your documents feed.
NOTE: You may view your product feed file before proceeding to step 2.
STEP 1: Click [HERE] to create / update your downloads feed.
NOTE: You may view your product feed file before proceeding to step 2.

STEP 2: Click [HERE] to upload products feed to Google Base.
STEP 2: Click [HERE] to upload documents feed to Google Base.
STEP 2: Click [HERE] to upload downloads feed to Google Base.
NOTE: You may view Google Base FTP content.

Can someone help please?

[rxalex]

Google Base Feeder v.1.6.1 19.09.2007 16:37:59 started 2007/09/24 17:00:38
Feed file - /home/fae/public_html/sun/feed/1800_google_base_products.xml
Processing: Feed - No, Upload - Yes
Upload started...
Connection failed: uploads.google.com

Upload failed...


still no progress, any ideas what can be wrong?

[yellow1912]

Isn't that the same old version you were using? :)

[rxalex]

updated.. to 1.6.1 but issues

[tj1]

Could it be possible that your title is too short??? I think the XML editor is displaying it as &. Try opening with a text editor like notepad and see if it really is & or &

I really don't think it has anything to do with the title being too short. I've only opened the file with the text editor UltraEdit and it shows just like I mentioned before <title>S&A</title>

Anyway, my php knowledge is very limited, but I think I found the reason. In line 79, the title line is not being sanitized (not sure if that's what you call it).

$content["title"] = '<title>' . STORE_NAME . '</title>'; 

Shouldn't it be like below?

$content["title"] = '<title>' . zen_xml_sanitizer(STORE_NAME) . '</title>'; 

I tried that, and it results in:
<title>SA</title>

While this is good and eliminates the error reported by Google, how can I get it to work properly and output <title>S&amp;A

[tj1]

Oh no I upgraded but have double of:
INSTRUCTIONS:
STEP 1: Click [HERE] to create / update your products feed.
NOTE: You may view your product feed file before proceeding to step 2.
STEP 1: Click [HERE] to create / update your documents feed.
NOTE: You may view your product feed file before proceeding to step 2.
STEP 1: Click [HERE] to create / update your downloads feed.
NOTE: You may view your product feed file before proceeding to step 2.

STEP 2: Click [HERE] to upload products feed to Google Base.
STEP 2: Click [HERE] to upload documents feed to Google Base.
STEP 2: Click [HERE] to upload downloads feed to Google Base.
NOTE: You may view Google Base FTP content.

Can someone help please?

Read carefully. Each one is different. One is for products, one for downloads and the other for documents.