Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[davewest]

Feed file - /var/www/vhosts/yorkshiregardencentre.co.uk/httpdocs/shop//feed/yorkshiregardencentre_products.xml

If this wasn't a hiccup, the red //.... check your configure files for a repeating or miss-formed address or base settings in admin should be feed/ not /feed/

Wont upload what it can't find....

Hi Dave

I tried the uninstall.sql script & it seemed to work ok but I got the same error when install.sql again??? ANy other ideas??

Run the mod and see if it works... Duplicate entry means its already there is all.

[numinix]

Your files should be in /feed/google/

With the database error when patching with install.sql, it is because you have the configuration_keys stored in the database with the configuration_group_id set to 0.

[tlianza]

I found an example of an image that actually had a filename with an ampersand in it. Ex. B&W.jpg and when it came through in the image_url field, it was Bamp;W - without the ampersand in front of the "amp;"

I'm not familiar enough with the various levels of escaping to suggest the best place to address this, I'm just going to hack something into googlefroogle.php, but this would be a great (albeit corner-case) test case to add if possible.

[numinix]

I found an example of an image that actually had a filename with an ampersand in it. Ex. B&W.jpg and when it came through in the image_url field, it was Bamp;W - without the ampersand in front of the "amp;"

I'm not familiar enough with the various levels of escaping to suggest the best place to address this, I'm just going to hack something into googlefroogle.php, but this would be a great (albeit corner-case) test case to add if possible.

What version are you using? Make sure you are using the latest version from the Numinix website.

[digsshowroom]

I successfully installed this mod on one of my sites (yay!), but am struggling with my other site.

When trying to create the feed in my Admin area, I get the following error message in a pop-up:

Sorry, we can't find "www.mydomain.comgooglefroogle.php",

which appears to be missing a slash. Unfortunately, I'm not knowledgeable enough to know which file to go to to fix this, nor how to make the fix.

I have searched through this thread quite a bit, but the closest problem I could find was someone that had two slashes instead of one, but the solution wasn't listed.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

[GoingGear]

I've been successfully using this mod for over a year, but it has been giving me some trouble for the past few months. I have tripled my product count, which I'm guessing is a contributing factor.

I have overwritten my files to the latest version.

My issues:

1. When generating the feed, the pop up window just goes to done after a few seconds without telling me the results. After checking the XML file, only 350 or so of the 1500 items I have are making it into the file. I was having no problems with 900 item files before, so I do not think it is a server time out issue.
2. I keep on receiving an XML formatting error when uploading the file to google. Could this be related to #1? I have tried changing the encoding to UTF-16 with no success.

Here is the XML file, for reference:

https://goinggear.com/feed/gg_products.xml

Anyone have any ideas? Is there any manual way to do this? I know I can run an SQL query, but doing all the image and product links, character clean up, etc. would be very time consuming.

[digsshowroom]

Sorted... was focusing on the includes/configure.php and forgot that the same was listed also in the admin/includes/configure.php.

On to my next problem! :)

[Dan123]

hi,
I have a problem, my site is in russian and product title, description comes as <![CDATA[ETH;ВETH;cedil;ETH;frac12;ETH;cedil; ETH;iquest;ETH;raquo;ETH;deg;Ntilde;ВNtilde;ВETH;micro;]]>. Does anybody know how to fix that?
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

[thebeveragegourmet]

I just upgraded my zen cart to 1.3.9d (was 1.3.6). I downloaded the latest version of google base and uploaded it. I went to install the sql and got a duplication error (restored my old database into my new one). If I go to the admin/configuration/google base....it's blank. It has the title Google Base Feeder and columns for title, value and action but nothing else. If I go to admin/tools/google base feeder I get:
HEADING_TITLE
TEXT_GOOGLE_FROOGLE_OVERVIEW_HEADTEXT_GOOGLE_FROOGLE_OVERVIEW_TEXTTEXT_GOOGLE_FR OOGLE_INSTRUCTIONS_HEADTEXT_GOOGLE_FROOGLE_INSTRUCTIONS_STEP1aTEXT_GOOGLE_FROOGL E_INSTRUCTIONS_STEP1a_NOTETEXT_GOOGLE_FROOGLE_INSTRUCTIONS_STEP1bTEXT_GOOGLE_FRO OGLE_INSTRUCTIONS_STEP1b_NOTETEXT_GOOGLE_FROOGLE_INSTRUCTIONS_STEP1cTEXT_GOOGLE_ FROOGLE_INSTRUCTIONS_STEP1c_NOTE
TEXT_GOOGLE_FROOGLE_INSTRUCTIONS_STEP2aTEXT_GOOGLE_FROOGLE_INSTRUCTIONS_STEP2bTE XT_GOOGLE_FROOGLE_INSTRUCTIONS_STEP2cTEXT_GOOGLE_FROOGLE_LAST_UPLOAD2010/06/10 16:33:46TEXT_GOOGLE_FROOGLE_INSTRUCTIONS_STEP2_NOTE
TEXT_GOOGLE_FROOGLE_INSTRUCTIONS_TIPS

I never had this issue before on 1.3.6. Any thoughts or ideas as to how I can fix this?

[thebeveragegourmet]

Ok....I unistalled it all and re-installed it. Now I can go to admin/config google base feeder and enter in all my info.
BUT
when I go to tools/google base feeder, I get a completely blank page. No admin bar on top..nada....just a white blank page.

Ideas how to solve this? I am on 1.3.9d