Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[edwardtilbury]

what about when you replace your descriptions with a generic description? like just put some blank filler text there.

You could to a store export or ext store export to backup your descriptions , then just make a test file and overwrite your descriptions in easy populate so we can tell if it's description related.

I have a feeling it's the funky characters.. but who knows..

[edwardtilbury]

I'm trying to customize the google base xml exporter for zen cart to automatically reduce my Product Name / Title to 70 characters or less.. I was able to accomplish this with my test variable $test_name , see the example code below of what I was able to do:

 //BOF Edward Custom formatting of product name and title
	$badstuff = array('>', '(', ')', 'discount', 'sale', '/');
	$test_name = str_ireplace('doctor', 'DR', $test_name);
	$test_name = str_ireplace('bill gates', 'Bill', $test_name);
	$test_name = str_ireplace($badstuff, "", $test_name);
	trim ($test_name);
	substr($test_name, 0, 70);
//EOF Edward Custom

Now my only problem is inserting the code into the google base xml exporter... I do not understand where the actual product name / title varible is.

Here's where I think it exists, but I'm not 100% sure..

$content["title"] = '<title>' . $google_base->google_base_xml_sanitizer($products->fields['products_name'], true) . '</title>';

How would I edit the title with my script? In other words, how could I combine the 2?
:)

[bag.sho]

Need help

I use Zen cart 1.3.8a Google base feed 1.7.1a

this is my google base feed http://bagsho.com/feed/ho_products.xml

I don't know where it's wrong, when i Uploads files it's say
Feed status details


Outcome: Data feed upload failed. No items are live. help
Number of items processed: 0
Number of inserted items: 0
Uploaded at: Apr 12, 2009 10:55 am PDT
Processed at: Apr 12, 2009 10:56 am PDT


Detected file format: XML


Can some one help me , thanks

[tiaz]

I'm just setting up my first store and wondered if anyone can confirm if this works at all? I've read some of the thread and I cant ascertain if this does work now at all.
Thanks

[fakeDecoy]

These threads with all the bug reports can be kind of scary. But yes, I installed it on 1.3.8a and it works great. I just had trouble at first because I was trying to upgrade from the Froogle version of a couple years ago.

[tiaz]

Thank you- I will give it a whirl then :)

[edwardtilbury]

I'm just setting up my first store and wondered if anyone can confirm if this works at all? I've read some of the thread and I cant ascertain if this does work now at all.
Thanks

I was pretty skeptical of it at first too.. I didn't want to muck up my site with unnecessary mysql tables and new columns.. Actually it was pretty easy to install.. I have Easy Populate / Custom fields added / column view / admin privileges / and some other modules I can't think of right now, but it was a pretty easy install, just had to copy a few files over, didn't overwrite anything that I recall. The only edits were to add the button in admin mode.

[painterforum50]

I'm just setting up my first store and wondered if anyone can confirm if this works at all? I've read some of the thread and I cant ascertain if this does work now at all.
Thanks

Not for me..
Google does not accept any of my 287 products from the feed upload, claiming that they are missing title and description attributes... News to me since they are in the store and the XML file... Dunno what the fix should be...

[edwardtilbury]

look up the product # of a couple of the items that aren't uploading..

Do they have a description? Also how many characters is the title or description.. with debug mode turned on it should say something I think.. There is a max # of characters for desc / title

You can download Notepad++ it's a really good opensource notepad that counts characters and a ton of other stuff.

[jonnyboy22]

ok im sure this has already been mentioned in this thread but i cant find an answer to it.

Just installed this module and when running the SQL i got the following

8 statements processed.
ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "" because it already exists
Note: 1 statements ignored. See "upgrade_exceptions" table for additional details.

As a result admin >> Google Base Feeder Configuration is pretty much empy, just contains teh top of a table (Title Value Action) but nothing else. Which means i cant set it up thus tools >> Google Base Feeder doesnt work.

Im off to re-read this thread again incase i missed the answer but if anyone can help it woudl be really appreciated.