Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[bumba000]

Okay, I was still getting the same error doing this all by hand. Heres what I came up with.
First you have to create a catalog and set it up for FTP uploading. Have to give the Exact file name being used n all.

Have to make sure that the .xml file is registered and set up with Live before uploading via Admin or FTP.

Also. I stopped having my FTP access via Admin denied when I put "ftp.productupload.live.com" up as the LSP Server.
Think its the same as what is default for the mod but somehow replacing it made the problems and bold red letters go away. . . .

. . . Now those same angry screens are using words like " Successful " !


Thanks for the help,
John

[BlessIsaacola]

It appears that in all the feeder generator (yahoo, msn and google), the script is trying to sanitize and clean up & to form an xhtml compliant & The conversion of & to & is actually creating a problem because the script is not smart enough to ignore situations where there is already a properly formed & instead of leaving it alone it turns and & into & amp; which not correct.

A good example of this situation is with categories where it's erroring because all our categories have been creating in Zen Cart admin properly using correct xhtml syntax for example Kids & Family is what we entered when creating that category which Zen Cart smartly formats and displays as Kids & Family on the shop side.

However, when the generator is creating the feed file, this becomes a problem because it converts the & in way that mess things up instead of just leaving that alone.

Any ideas on how to fix this short of changing everything that we already nicely formatted back to & so the script can convert it to & ?

Thanks!

[motti]

Hi

How can i tell what version i have now?

Thank you

[numinix]

When you run the script it will say, or simply open googlefroogle.php in the root and check the version number at the beginning of the file.

[motti]

Hi

Which of the file do I upload to google

I try the domain_products.xml and I got this error
domain_products
Processing bulk upload file
Bulk upload failure. 0 errors. None of these items are active.

I also have tiledepot.xml_products.xml and few new ones

I upgrade to 1.61 from 1.5.0 I run the sql 1.5.2 1.5.3 and googlefroogle.sql, no errors and all look ok.

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[kiddykool1]

Help.

I have downloaded the latest version . when I create the xml file and upload to Google base uk . I get the following error when it trys to process.

I am uploading the xml from the bulk uploade page rather than through FTP

"We did not understand the header (first) row of your file. Please make sure that you are using valid attribute names - <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>:
1

I have checked the settings on the file upload so it is looking for UTF-8 rather than Latin-1.

Any help appreciated

Jimbo
http://kiddykool.com

My new zen cart site is due to go live this weekend

[numinix]

Hi

Which of the file do I upload to google

I try the domain_products.xml and I got this error
domain_products
Processing bulk upload file
Bulk upload failure. 0 errors. None of these items are active.

I also have tiledepot.xml_products.xml and few new ones

I upgrade to 1.61 from 1.5.0 I run the sql 1.5.2 1.5.3 and googlefroogle.sql, no errors and all look ok.

Thank you

Motti,

In the configuration rename your file to "tiledepot"
Login to Google Base and register a bulk file as tiledepot_products.xml. The feed file will append _products.xml to whatever name you choose. The other options for downloads and documents are only relevent if you have these product types on your site.

[Fastserv]

Hi all,

I&#180;ve got a problem with my german store using Zen Cart 1.3.7 and Google Base Feeder 1.6.1 (update from 1.3.x). Google Base needs localized attributes, so "currency" needs to be "w&#228;hrung" for the german Google Base.
The new Feeder doesen&#180;t create the correct special char "&#228;" and makes it
unreadeble and i get this "w&#195;&#164;hrung".
The special chars inside the description are complete lost and i get instead of
"Qualit&#228;tsprodukt" this "Qualittsprodukt" .

Any help appreciated

Stefan

Apologize my bad english

[BlessIsaacola]

If anyone figure out the solution to the problem I described in post #482 above, please post your solution. Thanks!

[numinix]

Isaac,

you can add the following to the santizer function:

$str = str_replace('&amp;amp', '&amp;', $str);

This was discussed in an earlier post for another issue, but it would be relevent here as well.