Froogle Merchant Center merged into GoogleBase

Numinix - That is a bit of a risky proposition as well. Yes it is great if you are offering a better deal than the competitors.....but what if you aren't?

I'm having trouble when I create the files. They are showing that it created properly and that 1669 items are in the file, but when you view the file all that is there is the header lines. Has anyone else run into this issue?

Any help would be appericated.

Thanks
Chris
WC Computers and More

This may sound silly but did you scroll all the way to the right? Depending on what you opened it with it may have put each one on one very long line..

I double checked without success. All that is there is the header.

title description link price image_link expiration_date label id brand product_type condition currency

Any other ideas?

Thanks

Is anyone still having trouble uploading to froogle/google base? I love this module but I have never been able to click the two buttons and actually have it upload. This is the message I get after I click upload:

Froogle Data Feeder v.1.3.3 07.02.2007 20:45 started 2007/05/28 20:06:43
Feed file - d:/hosting/member/admin/site1/feed/froogle.txt
Processing: Feed - Yes, Upload - No
Froogle File Complete In 0.094752 Seconds 20 Records

Any recommendations? I have been uploading them manually, but would like to take full advantage of this module. Thanks.

Nevermind, it is now working!!

modchipfitters.co.uk:

ok i seem to have a problem
i create my file ok and upload it and after 30 mins or so google base tells me success you have 328 poroducts active
i check the actvie products and they all say active and searchable soon as normal but then aboiut 12 hours lter my feed file name turns red i have no products acvtive and i have this message

Bulk upload failed. No items are live. There are too many formatting errors in your file
i have tried manually editing the file as per googles instrcuctions but the file just fails instantly
any one help me????

still not sorted this out i have spent hours and hours manually editing the feed and deleting some products that i thought might be causing it but still get the same results :frusty::wacko:

any help or pointers would be much appreciated

modchipfitters.co.uk:

still not sorted this out i have spent hours and hours manually editing the feed and deleting some products that i thought might be causing it but still get the same results :frusty::wacko:

any help or pointers would be much appreciated
Make sure you don't have "Label" in your file they no longer accept it.

I love this module, but what happened? Suddenly when I try to create/update the feed, the window pops up but it is blank! Same thing when I upload the feed, blank window again. It was working, is anyone else having this problem. The only thing I have done around this problem starting is uploaded Image Handler 2, has anyone else had a problem with these 2 modules?

Now my feed is coming up this page can not be displayed!!! HELP!

Just an added note about this, I just saw out that my feed is not even updating....

I posted something today about the prices not changing when you use the salemaker module. When you make a sale and generate the feed the price in the feed still stays as your base price. Also when it creates the file it creates as user and group "nobody"

What happened to this module.....I really need it to work as many others also do I am sure. Any ideas?

Google Froogle Feeder v1.3.4
available for testing at: http://www.numinix.com/zen-cart/google_froogle_feeder_1.3.4.zip

Updates:
added manufacturer's product number
cleaned up the product_type/label issue

Notes:

If there are any problems with the mpn, I will be happy to give support as well as help to add any further attributes which are ALREADY defined in the SQL database. I don't think there is anything else to add without creating additional fields in the product listing.

Product_types still only displays the categories (i.e. category sub-category sub-sub-category; the more sub categories you have the longer the product_type will be) and not a custom Google product_type which would require an additional field in the admin - categories/products. All I've actually done here is completely removed the "label", which Google no longer uses, and setup product_type to display what label used to display.

In terms of support, I cannot offer any support other than for the two changes I've made, which are very minor. Anything prior to these changes is beyond my capacity and should be directed to the original author a_berezin.

I will upload this release to the downloads sections once enough people have verified my changes are acceptable. The issue for special prices, as stated by the above poster, is still a concern and will hopefully be addressed in the future. I don't have enough understanding to take this on myself and don't even know where in the db special prices are stored.

mfreund:

Also when it creates the file it creates as user and group "nobody"

IIRC, you need to upload an empty feed file (set it to '777' permissions and rename to your feed file name, of course) using FTP when you install the mod - then your server user/group will be assigned to the feed file instead of 'nobody'.

I assume that's why the empty feed file is included in the mod (or used to be).

mfreund:

I posted something today about the prices not changing when you use the salemaker module. When you make a sale and generate the feed the price in the feed still stays as your base price. Also when it creates the file it creates as user and group "nobody"

What happened to this module.....I really need it to work as many others also do I am sure. Any ideas?

I've taken a look at how specials are stored in the database and it probably wouldn't be too hard to do a conditional statement that if a special price exists, display special price instead of price. The only problem is that zen-cart doesn't delete the special prices from the database. It simply deactivates them by checking to see if the expiry date has been reached. Thus it would require more conditional statements for the expiry as well.

Google Froogle Feeder v1.3.5

Updates:

Now includes specials. I did this by comparing the expiry date to today's date. I'm new to PHP but it's my understanding that the date function is based on the server time?

The update can be downloaded from:

http://www.numinix.com/zen-cart/google_froogle_feeder_1.3.5.zip

When I run the feed it says that all my products are in the file but when I view it there is nothing in there other then the file header information. Any ideas?

Thanks

The tabbed headings aren't stored in the db which means that it's not pulling the values out of ur database.

Note: I've setup a new support thread for any new issues not previously covered in this thread which is getting too large to read:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=67850

Post any bugs with the specials prices in that thread please.

Here is what it says when I run the file :

Froogle Data Feeder v.1.3.3 07.02.2007 20:45 started 2007/06/08 20:22:16
Feed file - /home/wccomput/public_html/feed/froogle.txt
Processing: Feed - Yes, Upload - No
Froogle File Complete In 0.297386 Seconds 1647 Records

So where would I start to troubleshoot why it says its pulling the data but really isn't?

Thanks

wccomp:

Here is what it says when I run the file :

Froogle Data Feeder v.1.3.3 07.02.2007 20:45 started 2007/06/08 20:22:16
Feed file - /home/wccomput/public_html/feed/froogle.txt
Processing: Feed - Yes, Upload - No
Froogle File Complete In 0.297386 Seconds 1647 Records

So where would I start to troubleshoot why it says its pulling the data but really isn't?

Thanks

After testing we found that the problem was Zen Manager which stores products differently than the default Zen Cart. See my thread for the latest version v1.3.6 to further test the timeout issue.

Hi

I did install it and keep getting errors
1062 Duplicate entry 'GOOGLE_BASE_CATEGORIES' for key 2
in:
[INSERT INTO zen_configuration (configuration_id, configuration_title, configuration_key, configuration_value, configuration_description, configuration_group_id, sort_order, date_added, use_function, set_function) VALUES (NULL, 'Included Categories', 'GOOGLE_BASE_CATEGORIES', '', 'Enter category names separated by commas
(i.e. computers,software,televisions)
Leave blank to allow all categories', @configuration_group_id, 30, NOW(), NULL, NULL);]
If you were entering information, press the BACK button in your browser and re-check the information you had entered to be sure you left no blank fields.

What am I doing wrong , I did run the sql and the update sql, I change permeation to 777
For the feed folder and for the 3 files in it
It is all done on my store demo, after I figure it out, I will install it on my site

Please advice

Thank you