Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Hi

Installed this great mod for the first time tonight here in the UK and think that I have followed everything to the last letter but when I try to upload the feed I get this:

Google Base Feeder v.1.6.11 03.27.2008 00:05:59 started 2008/04/07 00:03:19
Feed file - /home/ragdisk/public_html/feed/pleasuredisc_products.xml
Processing: Feed - No, Upload - Yes
Upload started...
Login failed:
Connected to: uploads.google.com
Upload failed...
I can't think that it is far away but please could you help me get it working?

Thanks

Rob

As an additional piece of info which may be related, I did upload the xml file manually to google (from within google) and although it says the upload was successful using this method if I click on the details link it shows a whole list of errors:

We didn't understand some of the XML formatting in your file. You may be missing a tag or have a nesting or formatting error. - help
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Any ideas??

:)

Rob

Rob

Hello from the UK too.

I think you may have 3 problems as I just solved the issues you had.

Firstly the file needs to be a .xml in the google base setup menu. Not .txt. If you make it a .txt then it will not be recognised and you will have loots of syntax errors reported.

Be careful if you rename a file to .xml from .txt I have had prob with it not 'really' being recognised as .xml ; so create it correctly first time.

I had issues with 'googlecheckout' errors ( my GCO is installed but not active - however GB feeder seems to want to include it anyway and it fails) so I did a search and replace for the GCO xml lines - quite simple.

finally even if you ask for the fine gooolebase.xml you may get products_gooblebase.xml. If you have registered google.xml as your feed, then the upload from zc will fail.

I still cannot get the upload to work from inside zc (the gco lines still have to be removed) but I did at last get a feed to work, and its better than doing it by hand !!!

Gary

Secondly the

techawave:

when I try to do the Create/Upload Feed through the zen cart admin, 90% of the time it'll do this:

to

http://techawave.jitbid.com/techawave/googlefroogle.php

Actually it's still doing this to me. Does the google feeder have trouble with big files? I have about 16,000 items and google feeder and cron job have seemed to stop creating and uploading the xml file to Google Base once I jumped from 11,000 items to 16,000.

garyw:

I still cannot get the upload to work from inside zc (the gco lines still have to be removed) but I did at last get a feed to work, and its better than doing it by hand !!!

Gary

Secondly the

To fix your GoogleCheckout problem, go to your ZenCart admin page then go to Configuration-> Google Base Feeder Configuration, then on the bottom you'll see:
Payments Accepted

Open that, and delete GoogleCheckout from it.

I have looked but didn't find and answer yet.

From Tools->Google Base Feeder..

I can create the product feed. However, when I go to "view" the product feed.. it is empty. No title, no description...no products.
If I download the .xml file and open it in a text editor, I can see the data though.

Has anyone had this problem with Google Base Feeder.

I am using the latest version, but the old version wasn't working either.

thanks,

ok .. to add to my last post..
In my browser, the feed is empty.. no title no description nothing.

But, if I view source everything is there.. title, itmes, everything.
So it just isn't displaying in my browser.

Any ideas?

SirBuck:

ok .. to add to my last post..
In my browser, the feed is empty.. no title no description nothing.

But, if I view source everything is there.. title, itmes, everything.
So it just isn't displaying in my browser.

Any ideas?

Yeah it's just the way your browser is trying to view the xml file. Firefox for me tries to add my xml file as a RSS Feed bookmark. IE7 views it normally for me though.

I just installed is contribution
Install seems to have went fine
My site has over 2000 products, but the feed only shows 380?
Is there a time out setting or something that I’m missing?
:frusty:

thanks

the total changes each time i run it!!??????

Timeouts are addressed in the documentation as well as about 100 times throughout the thread...

yes, I found the time-out setting in the docs, I guess I was hoping there was another cause, and solution to the problem. my sites are hosted on a shared server, and I do not think i have access to change those settings
:(

I just installedthe Google feed mod, set up my FTP info.
When I go into tools, Google Database Feeds and click in the links to upload a feed, a small window opens up but it is empty.
Wondering what I'm doing wrong.

Had to change the categories filter function as the original was not working - the foreach was falling over every time on the first integer in the array, only filtering for the category and none of the others.

Function inside the public_html/googlefroogle.php

function numinix_categories_check($categories_list, $products_id, $charge) {
    if ($categories_list == ''){
    if ($charge == 1) {
      return true;
    } elseif ($charge == 2) {
      return false;
    }
  } 

else 

{

$categories_array = split(",",$categories_list); 
reset($categories_array);
while (list(, $category_id) = each($categories_array)) {
 
      if (zen_product_in_category($products_id, $category_id)) {
    return true;
      return false;
      }     
}  
} 
} 

Whatup people thanks for all your help...I noticed on http://www.numinix.com besides Google Base Feeder, there is also the RSS Feed module.

Can the RSS Feed module be used to add products to google base as well as other sites that take product fees by RSS?

If I can just install that, then that's the way I think I"d like to go.

Thanks!

No the RSS Feed module does not support Google Base, nor does it create an exported file for uploading.

Calljj:

Had to change the categories filter function as the original was not working - the foreach was falling over every time on the first integer in the array, only filtering for the category and none of the others.

Function inside the public_html/googlefroogle.php

function numinix_categories_check($categories_list, $products_id, $charge) {
if ($categories_list == ''){
if ($charge == 1) {
return true;
} elseif ($charge == 2) {
return false;
}
}

else

{

$categories_array = split(",",$categories_list);
reset($categories_array);
while (list(, $category_id) = each($categories_array)) {

    if (zen_product_in_category($products_id, $category_id)) {
  return true;
    return false;
    }     

}
}
}

 
Yikes, don't even ask what happened there.  A patch will be released.

I installed this about 3 months and has been running smoothly. Now I am also getting these errors. Is this because of the above code change?

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No, but you should be using the latest version regardless:

http://www.numinix.com/index.php?main_page=document_general_info&products_id=756

I’m at the latest version
I Create Product Feed
It finished with out any errors
Google Base File Complete In 42.681044 Seconds 3130 Records
I upload it to google, with no error, but it only shows Processed:380
?????