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7 May 2011, 3:28 PM
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Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Hi

Currently I'm using zencrat1.3.9h verson with about 90 products in my catelog. I've also installed the Ceon URI Mapping (SEO) plugin. Everything going good till now. Finally I've installed the Google Merchant Center Feeder(google_base_froogle_feeder_1-9-0).
now I'm facing the issue. Whenever I goo inside Tools >> Google Merchant Center Feeder inside the admin and click confirm for creating the Product feed type, a popup window comes up and displaying my home page with the URL (http://mywebUrl.com/mystore/googlefroogle.php?feed=fy_un_tp&limit=&offset=&x=52&y=13&key=544b32e9e0)

Even I've excluded all file's path of Google merchant center feeder inside the Ceon URI Mapping.

contents of my .htaccess file is as follows:

RewriteEngine On

ONLY rewrite URIs beginning with /zen139h/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/zen139h/ [NC]

Don't rewrite any URIs ending with a file extension (ending with .[xxxxx])

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.[a-z]{2,5}$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.[a-zA-Z]{2,5}$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .(html|htm|php)$ [NC]

Don't rewrite admin directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/zen139h/new-admin [NC]

Don't rewrite editors directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/zen139h/editors [NC]

Don't rewrite cPanel directories

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/cpanel [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/frontend [NC]

Handle all other URIs using Zen Cart (index.php)

RewriteRule .* index.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Pls help me to resolve this issue.

7 May 2011, 9:03 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

I changed the product type to full and so it included some accented words (spanish) from the category titles for the first time in the feed. Some incorrect &amp, etc combinations were created from the sanitize function that google didn't like once uploaded.

I made this change to fix it (note MY database is utf-8, maybe this is relevant), in
catalog/googlefroogle.php, in this section:

} elseif (GOOGLE_BASE_PRODUCT_TYPE == 'bottom') {
$bottom_level = $product_type[sizeof($product_type) + 1]; // sets last category in array as bottom-level
$bottom_level = htmlentities($bottom_level);
$content["product_type"] = '<g:product_type>' . $google_base->google_base_xml_sanitizer($bottom_level) . '</g:product_type>';
} elseif (GOOGLE_BASE_PRODUCT_TYPE == 'full') {
$full_path = implode(",", $product_type);
$full_path = htmlentities($full_path')
$content["product_type"] = '<g:product_type>' . $google_base->google_base_xml_sanitizer($full_path) . '</g:product_type>';
}to
} elseif (GOOGLE_BASE_PRODUCT_TYPE == 'bottom') {
$bottom_level = $product_type[sizeof($product_type) + 1]; // sets last category in array as bottom-level
$bottom_level = htmlentities($bottom_level, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');//steve added optional parameters
$content["product_type"] = '<g:product_type>' . $google_base->google_base_xml_sanitizer($bottom_level) . '</g:product_type>';
} elseif (GOOGLE_BASE_PRODUCT_TYPE == 'full') {
$full_path = implode(",", $product_type);
$full_path = htmlentities($full_path, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');//steve added optional parameters
$content["product_type"] = '<g:product_type>' . $google_base->google_base_xml_sanitizer($full_path) . '</g:product_type>';
}

7 May 2011, 9:05 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

countrycharm:

This almost works. It corrects the items and descriptions that were becoming 0 characters and so being omitted from the feed file, but the feed file still doesn't finish before it times out. Working on this.

I only have 263 products so don't have any timeout issues.

8 May 2011, 6:30 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Sorry, this should have gone under the "Google Basde Thead" but I can't see to figure out how to post to a thread.

I still haven't figured this out. I can upload the file manually though. Anyone?

Thanks

8 May 2011, 9:06 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Also, the directory after shop is my admin directory where I logon, is that correct?

This is too vague... we will need to know exactly the path structures you are using.

We routinely install GooglBase and have no problems on 1.3.9a installs.

Check your Gbase configurations and path structures.

Make sure that the module was correctly loaded.

9 May 2011, 10:41 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Hello,
ZenCart use version 1.3.9f, installation in the Italian language.
I have this problem: if you set the RSS feed in English is generated correctly with descriptions in English. If, however, set the feed in Italian feed is not generated. I need feed in Italian.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks

9 May 2011, 12:43 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

alebuti:

Hello,
ZenCart use version 1.3.9f, installation in the Italian language.
I have this problem: if you set the RSS feed in English is generated correctly with descriptions in English. If, however, set the feed in Italian feed is not generated. I need feed in Italian.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks

This is not the thread for RSS feed. You need to post that question over here.

9 May 2011, 1:09 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

countrycharm:

This is not the thread for RSS feed. You need to post that question over here.

I was wrong to write. I am using Google Merchant Center, not RSS

Hello,
ZenCart use version 1.3.9f, installation in the Italian language.
I have this problem: if you set the Froogle feed in English ( Configuration->Google Merchant Center-> Feed Language) is generated correctly with descriptions in English. If, however, set the feed in Italian feed is not generated. I need feed in Italian.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks

10 May 2011, 7:56 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

is your language directory named italian?
If not, see the above post about Español.

10 May 2011, 9:00 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

I had the same problem with the language folder.

It is called dutch. my solution was creating an extra folder call nederlands and only copy googlefroogle.php to it

11 May 2011, 5:24 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

I'm installing this module and have a question regarding this step:

6.Register your bulk upload .xml file using the same name in your Google Merchant Center Configuration at base.google.com

Is this the store name (username under admin)?

Thanks.

11 May 2011, 7:30 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Is this the store name (username under admin)?No, its the filename of the xml that you are sending to Google.

You should register a test feed at google to upload multiple times while you sort out the errors in the your feed.
Call it test in the admin and it will be created as test_products.xml
Register it as test_products.xml.

Then when it is uploading 100% and Google has stopped complaining about the data or formatting errors, register a new feed eg: YOURSHOPNAME_products.xml
Change the name according in the admin and upload, then wait for Google to verify it....

11 May 2011, 4:29 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

On the admin, feed creation screen, the date of the file is actually shown as todays date instead of the file creation date.

to fix this,
in YOURADMIN/googlefroogle.php around line 200

change

        $date = date('j/m/Y');

to

          $date = date('j/m/Y',$filetime);
12 May 2011, 8:06 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Hi

I am using zencart 1.3.9h and googlebase 1-9-0. I have managed to upload the fiels correctly for google base to appear under the configuration settings in zencart, but no matter where i upload the files into zencart it will not appear under tools, i have copied all the file/folder in Admin to the Admin folder on my site and it still will not appear, does anybody have any idea why it isn’t working?

Thanks

Lewis

12 May 2011, 9:31 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

torvista:

No, its the filename of the xml that you are sending to Google.

You should register a test feed at google to upload multiple times while you sort out the errors in the your feed.
Call it test in the admin and it will be created as test_products.xml
Register it as test_products.xml.

Then when it is uploading 100% and Google has stopped complaining about the data or formatting errors, register a new feed eg: YOURSHOPNAME_products.xml
Change the name according in the admin and upload, then wait for Google to verify it....

Thanks torvista!

I've created the file but have 2 issues perhaps you could help with:

  1. Under Tools>Google Merchant Center Feeder, the Upload links to www.mysite/myadmin/googlefroogle.php#. When using this it leads to a page not found.

  2. I uploaded the file manually under google merchant center which then gives me a "Missing required attribute: title (130 errors)" notification. However, all the products titles under ZC admin are there. Do you know why it misses some of them titles?

12 May 2011, 9:57 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Thannaree:

Thanks torvista!

I've created the file but have 2 issues perhaps you could help with:

  1. Under Tools>Google Merchant Center Feeder, the Upload links to www.mysite/myadmin/googlefroogle.php#. When using this it leads to a page not found.

  2. I uploaded the file manually under google merchant center which then gives me a "Missing required attribute: title (130 errors)" notification. However, all the products titles under ZC admin are there. Do you know why it misses some of them titles?
    in regards to missing title attribute, when iv looked through mine its because of non standard character like & or registered symbol or diameter symbol etc....

in regards to the first point, admin>configuration>google froogle merchant center
make sure your "store address" is just your website, not website/admin etc... just to double check this...
also check the google upload address

12 May 2011, 10:38 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

spid3r1987:

in regards to missing title attribute, when iv looked through mine its because of non standard character like & or registered symbol or diameter symbol etc....

in regards to the first point, admin>configuration>google froogle merchant center
make sure your "store address" is just your website, not website/admin etc... just to double check this...
also check the google upload address

Thanks spid3r1987.

I was also reading the special characters note in google merchant help. All the titles have got quotes (' ') characters. However only some products seems to get through.

The store address and uploads.google.com look correct.

12 May 2011, 1:59 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Thannaree:

Thanks spid3r1987.

I was also reading the special characters note in google merchant help. All the titles have got quotes (' ') characters. However only some products seems to get through.

The store address and uploads.google.com look correct.
i dont know if " or ' is classed as a special character in GMC

http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?answer=160037&query=quotation&type=

also

Google Base supports only the following special characters. Any other special characters used in the data feed other than these special characters will result in item failure.
< to be used in data feed as <

to be used in data feed as >
& to be used in data feed as &
" to be used in data feed as "

13 May 2011, 7:40 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Is the new version working correctly with no bugs?

Has anyone successfully got it to work?

Thanks!

13 May 2011, 10:45 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

spid3r1987:

i dont know if " or ' is classed as a special character in GMC

http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?answer=160037&query=quotation&type=

also

Google Base supports only the following special characters. Any other special characters used in the data feed other than these special characters will result in item failure.
< to be used in data feed as <

to be used in data feed as >
& to be used in data feed as &
" to be used in data feed as "

Regarding the errors, the titles had &lsquo and ’ for the single quote. I suppose these products were copied/pasted from a word processor instead of a text editor. Replacing them with & # 39 ; fixed the errors.

I've still got "Missing recommended attribute: shipping weight" warnings though, which I suppose aren't that important.

For the upload link (https://www.mysite.com/myadmin/googlefroogle.php#) under the admin, is this supposed to have a # at its end? Perhaps that what's generating the page not found page.