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9 Apr 2009, 4:32 PM
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Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

I'm trying to customize the google base xml exporter for zen cart to automatically reduce my Product Name / Title to 70 characters or less.. I was able to accomplish this with my test variable $test_name , see the example code below of what I was able to do:

 //BOF Edward Custom formatting of product name and title
	$badstuff = array('>', '(', ')', 'discount', 'sale', '/');
	$test_name = str_ireplace('doctor', 'DR', $test_name);
	$test_name = str_ireplace('bill gates', 'Bill', $test_name);
	$test_name = str_ireplace($badstuff, "", $test_name);
	trim ($test_name);
	substr($test_name, 0, 70);
//EOF Edward Custom

Now my only problem is inserting the code into the google base xml exporter... I do not understand where the actual product name / title varible is.

Here's where I think it exists, but I'm not 100% sure..

$content["title"] = '<title>' . $google_base->google_base_xml_sanitizer($products->fields['products_name'], true) . '</title>';

How would I edit the title with my script? In other words, how could I combine the 2?
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12 Apr 2009, 6:11 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Need help
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I use Zen cart 1.3.8a Google base feed 1.7.1a

this is my google base feed http://bagsho.com/feed/ho_products.xml

I don't know where it's wrong, when i Uploads files it's say
Feed status details

Outcome: Data feed upload failed. No items are live. help
Number of items processed: 0
Number of inserted items: 0
Uploaded at: Apr 12, 2009 10:55 am PDT
Processed at: Apr 12, 2009 10:56 am PDT

Detected file format: XML

Can some one help me , thanks :bigups:

14 Apr 2009, 10:17 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

I'm just setting up my first store and wondered if anyone can confirm if this works at all? I've read some of the thread and I cant ascertain if this does work now at all.
Thanks

14 Apr 2009, 10:19 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

These threads with all the bug reports can be kind of scary. But yes, I installed it on 1.3.8a and it works great. I just had trouble at first because I was trying to upgrade from the Froogle version of a couple years ago.

14 Apr 2009, 11:50 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Thank you- I will give it a whirl then :)

16 Apr 2009, 4:22 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

tiaz:

I'm just setting up my first store and wondered if anyone can confirm if this works at all? I've read some of the thread and I cant ascertain if this does work now at all.
Thanks

I was pretty skeptical of it at first too.. I didn't want to muck up my site with unnecessary mysql tables and new columns.. Actually it was pretty easy to install.. I have Easy Populate / Custom fields added / column view / admin privileges / and some other modules I can't think of right now, but it was a pretty easy install, just had to copy a few files over, didn't overwrite anything that I recall. The only edits were to add the button in admin mode.:smile:

16 Apr 2009, 8:52 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

tiaz:

I'm just setting up my first store and wondered if anyone can confirm if this works at all? I've read some of the thread and I cant ascertain if this does work now at all.
Thanks

Not for me.. :dontgetit
Google does not accept any of my 287 products from the feed upload, claiming that they are missing *title *and description attributes... News to me since they are in the store and the XML file... Dunno what the fix should be... :frusty:

16 Apr 2009, 9:15 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

look up the product # of a couple of the items that aren't uploading..

Do they have a description? Also how many characters is the title or description.. with debug mode turned on it should say something I think.. There is a max # of characters for desc / title

You can download Notepad++ it's a really good opensource notepad that counts characters and a ton of other stuff.

17 Apr 2009, 2:56 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

ok im sure this has already been mentioned in this thread but i cant find an answer to it.

Just installed this module and when running the SQL i got the following

8 statements processed.
ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "" because it already exists
Note: 1 statements ignored. See "upgrade_exceptions" table for additional details.

As a result admin >> Google Base Feeder Configuration is pretty much empy, just contains teh top of a table (Title Value Action) but nothing else. Which means i cant set it up thus tools >> Google Base Feeder doesnt work.

Im off to re-read this thread again incase i missed the answer but if anyone can help it woudl be really appreciated.

17 Apr 2009, 8:35 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

read through all pages again and still cant seem to fix this issue. Anyone got any ideas? help!

18 Apr 2009, 1:13 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

After upgrading to the latest version of google base (I followed the instructions to the letter) I was able to successfully update and upload my feed several times, no problem.

Now, all of a sudden, when trying to Create Product Feed, I get a 404 error and the following link in the status bar :```
http://www.ashbysonline.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=fy_un_tp


I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the sql file, but no good.  Anyone have any ideas?  I'm using Zencart 1.3.8a
18 Apr 2009, 4:16 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

wtashby:

After upgrading to the latest version of google base (I followed the instructions to the letter) I was able to successfully update and upload my feed several times, no problem.

Now, all of a sudden, when trying to Create Product Feed, I get a 404 error and the following link in the status bar :```
http://www.ashbysonline.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=fy_un_tp



Worked fine for me.
18 Apr 2009, 2:59 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

jonnyboy22:

ok im sure this has already been mentioned in this thread but i cant find an answer to it.

Just installed this module and when running the SQL i got the following

8 statements processed.
ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "" because it already exists
Note: 1 statements ignored. See "upgrade_exceptions" table for additional details.

As a result admin >> Google Base Feeder Configuration is pretty much empy, just contains teh top of a table (Title Value Action) but nothing else. Which means i cant set it up thus tools >> Google Base Feeder doesnt work.

Im off to re-read this thread again incase i missed the answer but if anyone can help it woudl be really appreciated.

anyone have any ideas? it was a fresh install of zencart 1.3.8a and only has the zenlightbox module installed. my clients keeps asking me for this and i have no idea why it hasnt worked.

19 Apr 2009, 3:53 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Hi, I am in need of someone to please help me install this onto my site https://www.microbelift.net
A fellow Zen-carter tried to help me but got stuck. Please help me. You can email me at [email protected]
Thanks for your help. Someone PLEASE help.

19 Apr 2009, 7:31 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

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Not for me.. :dontgetit
Google does not accept any of my 287 products from the feed upload, claiming that they are missing *title *and description attributes... News to me since they are in the store and the XML file... Dunno what the fix should be... :frusty:

OK... It seems that the Google feed gives the boot to titles and *descriptions *that contain certain characters like INCH marks TRADE mark symbols REGISTERED trade mark symbols, the old fashioned *& *character and many more I am sure. These were not a problem a few months ago, ... :huh:

28 Apr 2009, 5:36 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

I have everything install, linked and working, but when I goto create a new xml file, only 2 products show up in the product feed when I have 800+ products in my store. Thanks

2 May 2009, 8:16 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

stlnyc:

I have everything install, linked and working, but when I goto create a new xml file, only 2 products show up in the product feed when I have 800+ products in my store. Thanks

I have a similar issue where all of my products are NOT in the xml File. I am using 1.38. How do we fix this.....It is a real problem

3 May 2009, 12:07 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

speedcreed:

I turned debug on, and in the pop-up window I got a "List completed" so it's not timing out.

Says: "Google Base File Complete In 1.459843 Seconds 295 Records." though I have 420 records that should be populating.
(sigh).

And to kburner: When my install of GBF was actually working, I was getting some of the errors that you mention. It turned out that I was editing my descriptions in MS Word, and Google Base did not like the rendering of some characters. For instance, quotation marks copy/pasted into a Zen Cart description (assuming one is using the WYSIWYG editor) is not the same as copy/pasting into the straight text editor. I wish that I could re-create what I'm talking about and show you an example but if you look at quotation marks in MS Word/Times New Roman, they look 'curly' and that formatting is not rendered, or translated, correctly into Google Base.

I solved most of my errors and got GB to accept my posts by copying the errors straight from the "Feed status details" page on Google Base and then pasted them into notepad (so as not to incur any more formatting) and I corrected the strange characters there before pasting into Zen Cart description (Text mode- and not WYSIWYG mode) and got no more errors in Goggle Base. Again- if I could re-create the error, I'd show you exactly what I mean but I can tell you that you're looks highly suspect (emphasis on "revisión" which I'm sure should look like: "revision.").

Hope this helps.
And I still need some help with my problem.:D
Thanks

I followed your directions by eliminating the à in notepad. Then saved and ftp. Now, file will not even load to google. I am getting this error.

Google Base Feeder v.1.6.16 07.03.2008 23:40:59 started 2009/05/02 17:42:31
Feed file - /home/xxx/xxxx/feed/froogle_products.xml
Processing: Feed - Yes, Upload - No
2008 MySQL client ran out of memory
in:
[select products_tax_class_id, products_price, products_priced_by_attribute, product_is_free, product_is_call from products where products_id = '36255' limit 1]

I also tried to load right from google base manually. And will not work either.:frusty:

I have loaded around 7,000 more products since my last feed. I am up to around 10,000 total.
Kim

5 May 2009, 5:08 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

any news on my issue?

5 May 2009, 6:56 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Mine is probably different than yours since I do regular products instead of books, I think there are different fields. But maybe there is a setting in my.ini for memory or something in mysql gui admin that has a setting for that.

That's probably not much help, but maybe there is a setting for the memory in mysql and php.