Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[DivaVocals]

Davewest, I am very interested in the line of code.

Me too.. I am interested in this code too..

[Ladybug]

Hi, We installed Google Base Feeder to a clients ZenCart. To be honest with you, I have no idea what it does. With my busy schedule I haven't even had time to figure this out.

In any case, here is an error I'm getting. Any clues as to what it means?

Google Base Feeder v1.7.4 started 2009/09/25 15:18:28
Feed file - /home/hostingname/hosted/sitename/store/feed/domain_news.xml
Processing: Feed - Yes, Upload - Yes

Error: News and Article Module not Installed!

Thanks

[Ladybug]

Ok, the issue I had above has seemed to resolved itself. Now do I need to do anything else or do I have to upload a .txt file like the tutorial on googlebase.com says or is it automatically done now?

Thanks

[davewest]

Davewest, I am very interested in the line of code. On the other hand I wonder why even sanitize? I see other competitors upload titles with " . Why can't we just leave them there and not sanitize them out at all?

I format my descriptions and titles using HTML tags. I also use some tags to keep from having errors in MySQL server such as commas and quotation marks. I'm using the RSS 2.0 format for my Google feed which has problems with some HTML tags within xml. On top of it all, Google has it's own formatting you need to consider if you want your feed to display at all. Thus the need for sanitizing it.

Unfortunately, theirs not an easy one fix for all users solution, lest for my limited coding ability. All my quotations are tag as " and for some reason, the & is removed during sanitizing leaving me with quot; which errors in Google. My fix was with this line in \includes\classes\google_base.php Look for the function 'google_base_xml_sanitizer'

$str = str_replace(array("&lt;", "&gt;"), array("<", ">"), $str);

with this one

$str = str_replace(array("lt;", "gt;", "quot;"), array("<", " &qt; ", """), $str);

My quotation now shows up in titles and description.

Theirs nothing wrong with the code, just with how my titles and description are coded and my refusal to modify 3000 products just to please google.

[numinix]

Hi, We installed Google Base Feeder to a clients ZenCart. To be honest with you, I have no idea what it does. With my busy schedule I haven't even had time to figure this out.

In any case, here is an error I'm getting. Any clues as to what it means?

Google Base Feeder v1.7.4 started 2009/09/25 15:18:28
Feed file - /home/hostingname/hosted/sitename/store/feed/domain_news.xml
Processing: Feed - Yes, Upload - Yes

Error: News and Article Module not Installed!

Thanks

If you click the link to create a news feed, you must have the news module installed as per the error message.

[numinix]

I have actually verified those things.. the only thing that i noticed was that when i deleted the "wp folders" in the directory, then tried to run the feed. i got an error that basically said that froogle was looking for a wp file to finish running the feed.. I added the folders back but deleted some individual files that were not referenced in the warning.


dgarrett20, how did you fix it?

I've tested the following solution with the Google Base Feeder and found that my implementation guide to integrating Wordpress with Zen Cart will not cause the blank pop-up issue that plagues all users of the WoZ module.

A lot of work is involved, but it works very well. This guide has been implemented on the Numinix Blog.

[fmckinnon]

Hey,
Is it possible for the output to be just a regular .txt file (ie. delimited) instead of XML? I want to modify some of the data in the file for another storefront (make a few changes), but Excel won't open the .xml file ... it says it's not a standard Excel .xml file, adn I open it as text and it basically just shows the XML file, but not in columns/rows.

[numinix]

Hey,
Is it possible for the output to be just a regular .txt file (ie. delimited) instead of XML? I want to modify some of the data in the file for another storefront (make a few changes), but Excel won't open the .xml file ... it says it's not a standard Excel .xml file, adn I open it as text and it basically just shows the XML file, but not in columns/rows.

Use Easy Populate if you just want a .txt version. The .xml can be opened using any web browser.

[terius]

I get a google base configuration in my admin but when i go to tools there is nothing there.what up?

[numinix]

I get a google base configuration in my admin but when i go to tools there is nothing there.what up?

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