Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[thinkdeal]

No thanks for your help, but I'm still confused! You said:

1. You can manually download/upload the file to Google base. (I understand this option)
2. You can set up a cron job to do it from your host company. (no idea what you mean)
3. in Google base there is the option to have Google base fetch it themselves. (I would like you to explain this one)

I was spoiled, my old site was fully customised to submit to Google Base inside my control panel I just pushed a button, and then another button to submit a site map.

I had hoped this module brought that level of comfort.

[fusionsp]

ok...

At google base site when you type in the data feed file and I upload it for the first time to make sure everything is working. Then on the data feed tab you will then see your file listed. There is a line titled uploads and under there is schedule. If you click the edit button its self explanatory. I set mine to do it once every monday at like 5am. It then grabs the file from your site.

VERY IMPORTANT: Every time you add products to your site you will need to create the file again.

Then assuming you have already used this before, you will need to check and see if all the products were entered or any errors exist.

[CascianoLtd]

I am using Zen Cart 1.3.8 and google_base_froogle_feeder_1-7-4. I would like to replace the description with my meta description instead of the product description. Is that something that can be easily changed.

I can usually find the code and if it's a simple substitution I think I should be able to do it.

Thanks,
Ken

[thinkdeal]

I have Easy populate installed and one of the download links is:

Download Froogle tab-delimited .txt file

If I just download this file and then upload it to my Google Base account then that should work. Is this corret or am I missing something?

[donhohler]

I am using Zen Cart 1.3.8 and Google Base Feeder 1.7.4. I have made all the suggested modifications to the php.ini, .htaccess, and cart admin settings, but the feed file creation process stalls after about 30 - 40 seconds. 1 out of 20 tries it will complete. I have over 4000 products in my store. Anybody have any ideas??

[aravindk]

Hi all,

I have installed the google base for zencart and I am having problems creating the feed file. When I click on the Create Product Feed link, all I am getting is a blank page.

I am trying to debug googlefroogle.php and added some echo statements to see where it stops.

In the following lines, it is supposed to get the value of DIR_WS_CLASSES from one of the includes file. However when I checked application_top.php, this variable is not declared. So I went ahead and commented out that line and added another line to hardcode the google_base.php location. Now this variable GOOGLE_BASE_SHIPPING_RATE_METHOD - where should be coming from? I thought it should be from google_base.php, but when I opened this file, I dont see a declaration for this variable.

What am I missing here? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Below are the first few lines from googlefroogle.php.

*/
require('includes/application_top.php');
/* require(DIR_WS_CLASSES . 'google_base.php'); */
require('includes/classes/google_base.php');
echo "hello";
echo GOOGLE_BASE_SHIPPING_RATE_METHOD;
$google_base = new google_base();

[Yiannis]

Hi,

my prices are in EURO and my language is in English so they do not qualify for any target country. What I want to do is in my feed to have the prices in UK sterling. Is there a way to have the prices converted into the feed?

Thanks.

[dannyd]

Is there a way to include the category of the product in the XML feed ?

[Newbie76]

I have installed the version for 1.3.8 and think I have set up the daily cron job to automatically keep it updated, will the feed just update the products that are not already there or overwrite the existing ones, needing to wait another 24 hours for them to show up (by which time it would have updated again), so in theory never showing the products?

Sorry if it sounds like a stupid question but I really don't mind admitting that I know nothing about it, so if anyone could shed some light ;)

[mydanilo]

Hi

Is there a way of getting this mod NOT to strip out double (") and single (') quotation marks?

Did anybody find a solution to this? I am particularly interested to retain the " in my product titles where I give size info like this:

diameter 13"

I guess I could convert to just using

diameter 13 in.

As we have limits on the title length, I would prefer to stick with just " instead of in.