Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[numinix]

mydanilo, you've made the error that was highlighted multiple times in the new documentation as well as the official forum.

NOTICE

The parameters passed to googlefroogle.php have changed, please update your cron commands accordingly.

[mydanilo]

Ok Ok, yes I found it a few posts back. BUT noting is mentioned in the doc link you had with the mod.
http://www.numinix.com/index.php?mai..._documentation

...would have helped and reduced questions here in the forum.

Part of the info in this forum, your forum, the doc link... oh well should not complain. Sometimes just hard to find to find the trees in the forest I guess.

Thank you for the mod!!

[mydanilo]

I feel I have to apologize. I looked in my admin and the google base feeder page clearly has the new cron job examples listed. Oh well, I guess it just looked so the same to me.

So anyway, I will post the result tomorrow. Hopefully it will work now.

For everybody blind like me, this is how cron should be set now for v1.7:

To have this update and automatically upload product feed to Google Base, you will need to set up a Cron job via your host's control panel.
To run it as a cron job (i.e. at 5:00 am), put something in your crontab like the following:

0 5 * * * GET http://www.yourdomain.com/googlefroo...?feed=fy_uy_tp (other types: td for documents, tn for news)
or
0 5 * * * wget http://www.yourdomain.com/googlefroo...?feed=fy_uy_tp

[mydanilo]

1.7 with the suggested wget command works fine now. Thank you.

[b_funtomas]

i was just setting up Google Base Feeder with all updates. works fine and Google approved it too :)

anyone tried to use the feeder with a shop running English/German language?

I figured out a way to create a feed in english and german by changing the settings in

admin - Configuration - Google Base Feeder Configuration :

Show Default Currency false
Default Currency USD / EUR
Feed Language English / German
Output File Name English_products / German_products

advantage:

i got files to submit in United States and Germany

disadvantage:

can't use the cron job function as i always have to change the settings before

feed in German language doesn't support German letters

Any help would be very appreciated :)

Thanks

[numinix]

You could modify the script to accept a language parameter and use that if it exists, otherwise use the default.

[CBO]

I just installed 1.7 on Zen 1.3.8a. Origonally I tried upgrading from 1.6.7 but had a few issues so I decided to remove 1.6.7 and install fresh. After running the uninstall.sql for 1.6.7 , overwriting all the files with new 1.7 files and setting up my Google Base account info again I get an error when trying to generate a product feed.
Basically the last line in the pop up windows states....

Processing: Feed - No, Upload - No

I have uploaded the new files 3 times now, and have tried rerunning the .sql script as many and Im stumped.
One other thing I am noticing is that the first line of the feed generation pop up windows is this:
Google Base Feeder v.1.6.16 07.03.2008 23:40:59 started 2008/10/06 00:55:40
Shouldnt that say v.1.7 ??

I have this on a local test server in my office as well and the feed generation works but the upload does not. Same info though on the line above-- Google Base Feeder v.1.6.16

Any suggestion in what may be causing this? Im not as concerned about versioning info as long as the feed generation works.

TIA

[countrycharm]

I just installed 1.7 on Zen 1.3.8a. Origonally I tried upgrading from 1.6.7 but had a few issues so I decided to remove 1.6.7 and install fresh. After running the uninstall.sql for 1.6.7 , overwriting all the files with new 1.7 files and setting up my Google Base account info again I get an error when trying to generate a product feed.
Basically the last line in the pop up windows states....

Processing: Feed - No, Upload - No

I have uploaded the new files 3 times now, and have tried rerunning the .sql script as many and Im stumped.
One other thing I am noticing is that the first line of the feed generation pop up windows is this:
Google Base Feeder v.1.6.16 07.03.2008 23:40:59 started 2008/10/06 00:55:40
Shouldnt that say v.1.7 ??

I have this on a local test server in my office as well and the feed generation works but the upload does not. Same info though on the line above-- Google Base Feeder v.1.6.16

Any suggestion in what may be causing this? Im not as concerned about versioning info as long as the feed generation works.

TIA

This may help you.
1. BACK UP YOUR DATABASE
2. Go into PHPMYADMIN browse the 'configuration' table
3. Sort by 'configuration_key'
4. Delete all rows that contain configuration_keys that begin with GOOGLE_BASE or GOOGLE_FROOGLE
5. Run the install for the latest version Google Base Feeder v1.7.0

[CBO]

This may help you.
1. BACK UP YOUR DATABASE
2. Go into PHPMYADMIN browse the 'configuration' table
3. Sort by 'configuration_key'
4. Delete all rows that contain configuration_keys that begin with GOOGLE_BASE or GOOGLE_FROOGLE
5. Run the install for the latest version Google Base Feeder v1.7.0

That seems to be what my problem was. After clearing out the DB as noted and re running the .sql install all is good.
Thanks countrycharm!!!!!

[numinix]

Another method, rather than deleting the rows is to go into your configuration_group table and find what configuration_group_id has been given to Google Base.

Then, go into your configuration table and find the GOOGLE keys that have a configuration_group_id = 0 and set this to the configuration_group_id from the first step above.

This method is faster but involves a little more knowledge of navigating PHPMYADMIN.