Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[limelites]

I have zen cart 1.3.6 and have had this installed and working properly. Worked like a dream. All of a sudden it has stopped working. when I view the product feed it is empty.

Again, this was working fine and all of sudden just stopped.

When I view the feed it is blank. When I upload it only shows 7 items processed by Google.

Any thoughts?

You must have changed something, trace back your last few steps and think what you've altered recently between the times you remember it was working.

[chriskelm1]

Just incase anyone else had this problem.

The reason why my feed suddenly stopped working was due to a description formatting error.

I used a Bön (which is an o with two dots over it) in one of my descriptions.

So in other words, if you use special charters in your products descriptions the xml formatting does not recognize, your feed will error out and seem to suddenly stop working.

When in reality, you screwed up like me. Dont feel bad, you not alone!!!

Live, Learn or die trying! Thank you for the EXCELLENT mod!

[abs007]

Any idea why im getting an internal server error i posted a couple of posts before.
cheers

[chriskelm1]

It sounds like you forgot to change the permissions on the feed folder to 755 or 777.

Which connect error are you getting a 500?

[abs007]

The chmod settings for the feed directory are 777. The feed has been created and i can view it. In mozilla and IE i get internal server error 500.
hope it can be sorted

[mydanilo]

I am still trying to get the lowest price into the feed file.

I tried to replace

                            $price = zen_get_products_actual_price($products->fields['products_id']); 

with:

$price = zen_get_products_discount_price_qty($products->fields['products_id']); 

I guess this would have been too easy. I do not know enough about PHP to be able to come up with the right solution. Could somebody give me a hand?

Has anybody done this successfully?

[abs007]

Ok i think i know whats causing the problem but dont know how to fix it. When i go to admin/config/googlebase i notice that all of my settings have reversed back to the default settings so they are not saving over. I changed the settings again and logged out then logged back in and all of my settings were ok. when i logged in today the default settings are showing

[meknownowt]

Anyone know if google has changed anything, or if they are not working for some reason?

Do not seem to be able to upload, and I just keep getting on the bottom lines.

Processing: Feed - No, Upload - Yes
Upload started...
Connection failed: uploads.google.com

Upload failed...

I don't think I have changed any of the settings, as I have not used it for a few weeks. Just pressed the links as normal, it made the feed OK and I can view it, but when I try to upload I just get the above error.

Thanks for any help and hope you are having a good weekend.

[davidandrews]

I am the same, mine was working perfectly, no alterations now can't connect via FTP through the site.....

Anyone any ideas?

I have been able to add manually through googles control panel

[abs007]

It will not allow me to add it manually either as it says that the feed is not live