Froogle Merchant Center merged into GoogleBase

The feed directory needs to be writable. But if it is left writable then it is easy for a hacker to drop files into the directory.

Toggling on/off the directory permissions whenever you generate the feed manually is not a big deal. But it is if you are constantly updating your product line, and/or creating and uploading the feed via a cron job.

Anyone with recommendations/solutions as to the feed directory permissions issue?

Woody

what is the chmod function used for in this contribution? unfortunately I can't seem to get it to work on my new server since its not running phpsuexec (that i know of).. so it keeps throwing me warnings about chmod

You don't need to be running PHPSuExec for the chmod function to work. It's purpose is to set the permissions on the feed file to 644 after the file has been written:

*chmod(DIR_FS_CATALOG . GOOGLE_FROOGLE_DIRECTORY . GOOGLE_FROOGLE_OUTPUT_FILENAME, 0644);

Maybe if you post the errors you're getting someone may be able to point you in the right direction. :smile:

well the reason i ask is because currently the server isn't set up right.. we're redoing it at this moment actually to see if i can get phpsuexec installed. Right now "nobody" is trying to run the chmod script.. but the owner of the files its trying to chmod is "getyourg" or "root".. so its not working properly and throwing me warnings about how the chmod function isn't permitted.. i'm hoping once the server is redone that phpsuexec will FINALLY work properly.. it hasn't worked at all and i believe it was due to a few corrupt server files.. we backed up the server and completely wiped it and are redoing it from scratch

found out that phpsuexec only works when php runs as CGI... therefore CHMOD will not work for me since it runs under "nobody"..and my files are owned by my username. Since it doesn't matter too much that the file is to be chmodded, i will just ignore the warning :)

thanks!

Hi

I've installed GoogleFroogle successfully. And have gone through all step but Im stuck at the end.

I've also created the username and password with google base already.

Here is the steps I have completed :

**** Step 1 is OK ******
Froogle Data Feeder started 2006/11/07 15:01:32 Feed file - /home2/..bla..di..bla.../public_html/feed/froogle.txt Froogle File Complete In 0.803788 Seconds 92 Records

**** Step 2 is OK ******
Froogle Data Feeder started 2006/11/07 15:04:49 Feed file - /home2/..bla..di..bla.../public_html/feed/froogle.txt Upload started... Uploaded Successfully -r--r----- 1 ftp root 44973 Nov 7 12:04 froogle.txt Connected to: uploads.google.comLogin ok:Current Directory Is: /-r--r----- 1 ftp root 44973 Nov 7 12:04 froogle.txt
Upload ok!

But when I clicked to view Froogle Merchants FTP content, then I saw this
Froogle Merchants FTP content:
Connected to: uploads.google.com
/
total 0

I dont know why the FTP content 0 files.
I also tried to upload this manually via FTP program and it seemed to be uploaded successfully.
But I still see 0 file in uploads.google.com And I see nothing in froogle and still have 0 item.

Please suggest me what has gone wrong.

I would say that's quite normal - Your feed file often won't show up when you look at uploads.google.com just after submitting a feed. Then it might show up (briefly) before it's removed again for processing.

Providing your feed filename is named correctly it will have gone onto Google's system and will be awaiting processing. Give it a day or three and see what happens - especially if this is your first feed - Google will have to approve the feed.

Best not to submit any more until they email you to tell you the outcome of this feed otherwise you risk re-starting the approval process.

Just peek in your Googlebase admin area now and again - it should show up there eventually, plus they'll email you. They can be slow approving feeds sometimes - maybe due to maintenance work or updates to their system, or perhaps because they have a lot of feeds to approve.

You'll get there :smile:

Hi, I installed the googlefroogle mod and got it to run fine. But I noticed that my images were no longer showing up in Base and Froogle. So I checked the file that googlefroogle creates and it is adding two things to the image url. First it is saying that all my pics are in the images/large directory. I dont even use that directory. All my images are in the images/ dir. Secondly, it is attaching this to all my pics: _LRG.jpg so my the link to my image files looks something like this: abc/images/large/ring_LRG.jpg. I went through and deleted the offending parts and reuploaded the file to Base and it is working fine now. But how can i fix this problem? Anyone know why its doing this?

THanks

Jason Brim

brimsjewelry:

Hi, I installed the googlefroogle mod and got it to run fine. But I noticed that my images were no longer showing up in Base and Froogle. So I checked the file that googlefroogle creates and it is adding two things to the image url. First it is saying that all my pics are in the images/large directory. I dont even use that directory. All my images are in the images/ dir. Secondly, it is attaching this to all my pics: _LRG.jpg so my the link to my image files looks something like this: abc/images/large/ring_LRG.jpg. I went through and deleted the offending parts and reuploaded the file to Base and it is working fine now. But how can i fix this problem? Anyone know why its doing this?

THanks

Jason Brim

I believe it's because google base wants the large picture for display so the module assumes you are using the proper format to display larger pictures which is to name your images as follows
image.jpg goes in the normal /images/ directory
image_MED.jpg goes in the medium /images/medium/ directory
and image_LRG.jpg goes in the large /images/large/ directory
by using this method you make the call-up of your images compatible with all or most of the contributions for zencart.

i'm not sure how you would go about changing the google base contribution to suit your needs nor am i sure you would want to do that. i would suggest following the appropriate nomenclature and placement of your image files in zencart.

brimsjewelry:

Hi, I installed the googlefroogle mod and got it to run fine. But I noticed that my images were no longer showing up in Base and Froogle. So I checked the file that googlefroogle creates and it is adding two things to the image url. First it is saying that all my pics are in the images/large directory. I dont even use that directory. All my images are in the images/ dir. Secondly, it is attaching this to all my pics: _LRG.jpg so my the link to my image files looks something like this: abc/images/large/ring_LRG.jpg. I went through and deleted the offending parts and reuploaded the file to Base and it is working fine now. But how can i fix this problem? Anyone know why its doing this?

THanks

Jason Brim

This might be the solution to your problem: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=276277&postcount=186

BlessIsaacola:

This might be the solution to your problem: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=276277&postcount=186

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion. But when I make this change to googlefroogle.php it starts looking for the images in the root directory. I'm not gonna worry about it. I'll just start uploading my images to the large folder.

Thanks again,

Jason

Well, apparently thats not going to work either. Now it's renaming the images i upload to the /large folder as: /large/large/image_LRG_LRG.jpg. I did have image handler 2 but i removed it from the database prior to trying this so I dont think thats the problem. I can work around this for the moment by editing the file in Excel but thats precisely the thing i wanted to get away from by using this mod.

Plus, this mod uploads the sale prices for my products while the froogle file generated by EasyPopulate does not; it only lists the regular prices.

I want this to work and I'll be glad for assistance.

Jason

WOOOHOOOO! I made a mistake reading the proposed solution. I only copied part of the substitute line in googlefroogle.php. SO i went back and did it again, the whole line this time, and it works!!!!

Thanks so much! Now I am a happy Zenner again!

:D:D:D:D

Jason

Jason.. out of curiosity, now when you create your feed file where does the image link go to? Just the images/ directory.. or to where IH2 makes the image? Thanks :)

It goes to the image directory. But I noticed that IH2 doesnt work beyond second tier categories(as far as enlarging the pics in the whats new box). Is this a known issue or is it just my store?

Jason

Pixxi:

I would say that's quite normal - Your feed file often won't show up when you look at uploads.google.com just after submitting a feed. Then it might show up (briefly) before it's removed again for processing.

Providing your feed filename is named correctly it will have gone onto Google's system and will be awaiting processing. Give it a day or three and see what happens - especially if this is your first feed - Google will have to approve the feed.

Best not to submit any more until they email you to tell you the outcome of this feed otherwise you risk re-starting the approval process.

Just peek in your Googlebase admin area now and again - it should show up there eventually, plus they'll email you. They can be slow approving feeds sometimes - maybe due to maintenance work or updates to their system, or perhaps because they have a lot of feeds to approve.

You'll get there :smile:

Thanks for your answer Pixxi. Fingers crossed then. I've been waiting for 4 days. Will see what happen next.

one strange thing i noticed is that if you are uploading using the bulk uploads method on the google base site then the shipping field is not being accepted as generated by this mod.

it gives the following errors > Shipping field was incorrectly specified - UPS
I tried half a dozen times to correct this shipping field to live up to their specifications but nothing worked.
until...
if you FTP directly from zencart admin it accepts it fine. Anyone else have this problem?

mafiasam

I have just had to move my store from IXWebhosting to bluehost. Before the move the googlefroogle mod worked just fine. Now however it will not connect to the upload server and upload the feed file. I tried reinstalling it to no avail. Has anyone experienced this issue and had it resolved?

Jason

bluehost may have phpftp functions disabled.. may want to ask them about it

mafiasam:

one strange thing i noticed is that if you are uploading using the bulk uploads method on the google base site then the shipping field is not being accepted as generated by this mod.

it gives the following errors
I tried half a dozen times to correct this shipping field to live up to their specifications but nothing worked.
until...
if you FTP directly from zencart admin it accepts it fine. Anyone else have this problem?

mafiasam

had to leave shipping options blank. it is not accepting any values i put in for shipping.

mafiasam:

had to leave shipping options blank. it is not accepting any values i put in for shipping.

try it in this format:

US:Priority:7.99,CA:Global-Priority:9.99

Country:Type(nospaces):Price,Country:Type:Price,etc