Froogle Merchant Center merged into GoogleBase

I used the froogle file feeder and I worked just fine.

jewelrylady - have you logged into the googlebase website to verify there's no errors in your upload? Without changing the froogle feeder none of the products should have been successfully read by google.
Dennis

denliv:

jewelrylady - have you logged into the googlebase website to verify there's no errors in your upload? Without changing the froogle feeder none of the products should have been successfully read by google.
Dennis

Yeah! I logged in and GoogleBase is telling me I have 811 errors even though it's the same feed that I used to upload to froogle. I am not sure why GoogleBase cannot recognize the same information that Froogle processed just fine.

When I did my first feed after Google switched, I had over half of my products missing and a ton of errors. The next time I generated a Froogle file from admin, I clicked on save file as and saved it as a text file. I always did this prior to the change and simply locate and upload from Google. My file is small enough I can do that. But anyway...this time I made sure to pay attention to the encoding. I saved it with UTF-8 encoding and didn't have one single error. :thumbsup:

Just thought I would add that in the event it may help someone else.

Good Luck!
Kelly

In case I didn't explain myself well, I use one of the contributions that allow you to create the froogle file in the shop admin. You can then click on view file. When viewing the file you can go to file and then save file as. First choose the file name then the type and finally you choose the encoding. By clicking on ecoding you are shown a drop down menu giving you the options. I have included a screenshot.
I hope this helps.

Thanks,
Kelly

Kelly, thanks for the idea about saving it as UTF 8. That significantly reduced my error. I will look more into the rejected products to see what's common with them.

Does anyone know where I will change the headings for the googlefroogle generator so that it uses the new heading instead of the old one?

Thanks!

if anyone cares to look @ my original post on this topic, i have modified the froogle feeder to outpu using google base's new field headings, however, the feed isnt UTF-8 compatible..... this was the case before i modified the headings.....

i am waiting to see if anyone can correct this issue, if they can its a case of uploading this one new file, and you can use froogle feeder with google base.

plowe1:

i am waiting to see if anyone can correct this issue, if they can its a case of uploading this one new file, and you can use froogle feeder with google base.
I've been awaiting Andrew (a_berezin) to follow-up on this but I don't see him on the support forums anymore.

Appears than many of the international based Zen Cart mod developers have been scared off. This is most unfortunate.

Woody

plowe1:

if anyone cares to look @ my original post on this topic, i have modified the froogle feeder to outpu using google base's new field headings, however, the feed isnt UTF-8 compatible..... this was the case before i modified the headings.....

i am waiting to see if anyone can correct this issue, if they can its a case of uploading this one new file, and you can use froogle feeder with google base.

I believe the file you modified is Tim's Froogle generator file not Andrew's GoogleFroogle which what we are interested in.

Thanks!

sleepless:

When I did my first feed after Google switched, I had over half of my products missing and a ton of errors. The next time I generated a Froogle file from admin, I clicked on save file as and saved it as a text file. I always did this prior to the change and simply locate and upload from Google. My file is small enough I can do that. But anyway...this time I made sure to pay attention to the encoding. I saved it with UTF-8 encoding and didn't have one single error. :thumbsup:

Just thought I would add that in the event it may help someone else.

Good Luck!
Kelly

Thanks for the heads up :) I was able to get my feed to work :)

hbtrading could you please tell us how?

Stefan

I followed the following instructions:

sleepless:

In case I didn't explain myself well, I use one of the contributions that allow you to create the froogle file in the shop admin. You can then click on view file. When viewing the file you can go to file and then save file as. First choose the file name then the type and finally you choose the encoding. By clicking on ecoding you are shown a drop down menu giving you the options. I have included a screenshot.
I hope this helps.

Thanks,
Kelly

Any questions, I will be glad to help you.

do does anyone have a working googlefroogle.php file. I believe this is Andrews contrib. But im not sure... Its the one that thas the link to the merchant center on the right hand side....

Or maybe there is a new one out that is working correctly? if so what one? i downloaded the one from breakmyzencart.com. but i dont wanna have to un-install my current one, since iv grown to love it so much.... but ill do what i have too...SALES ARE DROPING!!!!!

wickedklown:

i downloaded the one from breakmyzencart.com. but i dont wanna have to un-install my current one, since iv grown to love it so much.... but ill do what i have too...SALES ARE DROPING!!!!!
You can have both Tims and Andrew's mod installed at the same time. Originally I was not able to do this. But after some simple tweaking of the SQL patch file for one of the mods (can't recall which one) I was able to make it so one of the mods would not overwrite the other mods db entries, thus allowing both to show up in the Admin Configuration and/or Tools menus at the same time. This may be documented in one of the mods support threads in the Archived Contributions forum.

Just to let you all know - Google fixed this problem for us

We sent them a copy of the feed generated and they made a change on their servers to accept our feed without any errors.

THANKS GOOGLE!!!

where's a direct working link to the google froogle by andrew? and is it compatible with the latest zen version 1.3+

Hi everyone,
I had utf-8 problem mentioned and after doing the manual file change mentioned above I tried changing googlefroogle.php.
Even though it's only a small change it seems to have stopped Google server complaining about encoding, try it if you wish.
NOTE; I am using Andrew's google feeder module on two different servers. Only one of the feed files threw errors, it seems to be dependant of php server settings.

On approx lines 55 and 89 the code:
fwrite($fp, $output);
becomes:
fwrite($fp, utf8_encode ($output));

As you can see I have just called a inbuilt php function to encode output in utf-8 when written to file, for documentation of function:
http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php

I hope this helps someone.

Rob

Hi
Can anyone pm or email andrews googlefroogle please? How can i get it?

thanks
Z

robderf:

On approx lines 55 and 89 the code:
fwrite($fp, $output);
becomes:
fwrite($fp, utf8_encode ($output));

Thanks Rob. Solution worked perfect.

So everyone is on the right track the above two edits are needed in the googlefroogle.php located in the root of the store.

P.S. To everyone looking for the GoogleFroogle mod, see the sticky in this forum.

Woody

Look at the sticky thread "Contribution Key" at the top of this forum subsection.

zohe:

Hi
Can anyone pm or email andrews googlefroogle please? How can i get it?

thanks
Z