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18 Jul 2007, 6:51 PM
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Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

If you run the SQL script it wil simply overwrite all of your stored configurations which isn't that big of a deal.

If no SQL upgrade is required since the last release, I normally remove the update files. But, perhaps I will include them all in the next release which HOPEFULLY will not happen for some time. However, I did notice one problem:

WARNING when uninstalling your copy of the Google Base Feeder, do NOT run these two lines in your uninstall.sql unless you want to completely remove the stored UPC and ISBN information from your database:

 
ALTER TABLE products DROP COLUMN products_upc;
ALTER TABLE products DROP COLUMN products_isbn;

The uninstall.sql should look like this:

 
SET @configuration_group_id=0;
SELECT @configuration_group_id:=configuration_group_id
FROM configuration_group
WHERE configuration_group_title= 'Google Froogle Configuration'
LIMIT 1;
DELETE FROM configuration WHERE configuration_group_id = @configuration_group_id;
DELETE FROM configuration_group WHERE configuration_group_id = @configuration_group_id;

I will remove this in the next release and make a note to only use these if you want to completely remove the GBF and never use it again. In most cases people are just uninstalling to reinstall and having to reinput all of the UPC information can be very tiresome.

19 Jul 2007, 4:59 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Using the 1.4.6 version with no problem at all. Install went as smooth as glass. Simply installed this version over my original 1.? version.

I had no problem with this upgrade just left out the shipping because its so darned confusing. Google made this part of their feed very difficult to set-up, and in my opinion very useless. Most of the sites that I have been on spell out their shipping better than you could on the Google site.

One other thing - if you previously had a feed set-up make sure you use that in your configuration or if you are going to do a new one delete the old.

Just an opinion.

19 Jul 2007, 7:02 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Mr_B:

Using the 1.4.6 version with no problem at all. Install went as smooth as glass. Simply installed this version over my original 1.? version.

I had no problem with this upgrade just left out the shipping because its so darned confusing. Google made this part of their feed very difficult to set-up, and in my opinion very useless. Most of the sites that I have been on spell out their shipping better than you could on the Google site.

One other thing - if you previously had a feed set-up make sure you use that in your configuration or if you are going to do a new one delete the old.

Just an opinion.

Versions 1.4.3 to 1.4.7 will only work if you have the Canada Post Module installed. 1.4.8 has removed these and I believe I removed the shipping options in an older release. Did it somehow creep back into my SQL file?

20 Jul 2007, 9:18 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

This may have been posted previously but worth repeating...

If having troubles uploading, submitting your bulk upload be sure to visit
http://groups.google.com/group/base-help-roadblocks/browse_thread/thread/7b2d25947786ee96

For instance a recent post to the above thread:

SYSTEM ALERT: 6:00 PM: Our bulk upload processing system will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance for the next two days (7/16 to 7/18). During this time, bulk uploads submitted through the Google Base web interface or via FTP will not be processing. We'll update
this thread once the scheduled maintenance has been completed.

20 Jul 2007, 7:24 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Thank you Woodymon. Google was down for accepting bulk uploads during those dates. It's possibly due to a bug that I reported to them in which the price was not displaying in base.google.com but was displaying in google.com/products. The bug has been fixed and now they are accepting bulk uploads again.

21 Jul 2007, 2:29 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Yes my latest upload was accepted, reviewed and published within an hour. And I'm not (yet) including all of the required attributes or substitute item type, optional or custom attributes that GoogleBase says they require.

22 Jul 2007, 2:11 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Woodymon:

Yes my latest upload was accepted, reviewed and published within an hour. And I'm not (yet) including all of the required attributes or substitute item type, optional or custom attributes that GoogleBase says they require.

Yes, although Google says they require the UPC attribute, they do not seem to enforce it yet. I did the Zen Cart community a favour and added this feature in advance and also modified a couple of contributions to make adding the information a lot easier. I hope it is appreciated :)

22 Jul 2007, 8:14 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

I have a problem.

If I change the name of the file that is produced in the configuration, it still seems to produce the file name frooglefeed.txt and not the new file name.

I want to use the name froogleupload.txt

Regards
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I am using the latest version.

22 Jul 2007, 10:18 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

numinix:

I did the Zen Cart community a favour and added this feature in advance and also modified a couple of contributions to make adding the information a lot easier. I hope it is appreciated :)

I'm still using Andrew's latest version ;-)

I sure hope Andrew returns to the Zen Cart mod development!

22 Jul 2007, 5:49 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

That shouldn't be possible since his version doesn't support the product_type...?

22 Jul 2007, 11:06 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

chalfontgifts:

I have a problem.

If I change the name of the file that is produced in the configuration, it still seems to produce the file name frooglefeed.txt and not the new file name.

I want to use the name froogleupload.txt

Regards
Laurie

I am using the latest version.

Just to add to my problem above, if you add the filename directly to the database it works fine, so it must be something to do with the code that writes the new file name to the datatabase in the configuration. I have tried to find where this is in the code but with no results. Anyone any ideas. Does anyone else have the same problem.

Regards
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23 Jul 2007, 3:20 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Hi
Finally I took the chance and upgrade to the 1.4.8, it look fine, but just look, I am getting errors when trying to upload to Google,
Froogle Data Feeder v.1.4.8 17.07.2007 18:06 started 2007/07/22 21:13:25
Feed file - /home/tiledepo/public_html/store/feed/froogle.txt
Processing: Feed - No, Upload - Yes
Upload started...
Connection failed: uploads.google.com

Upload failed...

Also trying to upload it directly from Google ( under my item list I click on Bulk upload file, it work well before from there , but now , nothing happen after I send it.

Also under my Admin/tools it say Google base feeder , but under my configuration it show Google froogle.
Do I need to change anything in my configuration ( I did not change any of it)

I did got 2 new lines in my admin product, upc and another one
Thank you

23 Jul 2007, 4:28 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

The discrepency in names under the configuration and tools isn't important. I'll change it in the configuration in the next release.

If you are having trouble connecting with FTP it may be an issue with your hosting.

24 Jul 2007, 9:47 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

I am getting the following error when I try to connect to google:

Froogle Data Feeder v.1.4.8 17.07.2007 18:06 started 2007/07/24 14:54:41
Feed file - /home/commtech/public_html/catalog/feed/froogle.txt
Processing: Feed - No, Upload - Yes
Upload started...
Connection failed: ftp://uploads.google.com
Warning: ftp_connect(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No address associated with hostname
Upload failed...

24 Jul 2007, 9:48 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Never mind I am not getting that error any more but I am getting the same error as post #152.

24 Jul 2007, 10:09 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

rbepple:

Never mind I am not getting that error any more but I am getting the same error as post #152.

numinix:

If you are having trouble connecting with FTP it may be an issue with your hosting.

Also, sometimes the upload will fail on the first attempt but if you attempt again right away, it will connect. The FTP portion of the code works and was written by Andrew Berezin. It uses basic PHP FTP functions through your server to connect to the Google FTP. If there are issues with using FTP on your server, this is an issue with your hosting. From time to time there may also be issues on Google's end of the FTP. These are all isolated from the Google Base Feeder.

25 Jul 2007, 8:25 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Sorry dumb question but I have to ask..

I am using Andrews (a_berezin) version (1.3.7 or earlier) and I need to upgrade.

For an upgrade to the new 1.4.8 is this the correct procedure?..

  1. Run ‘uninstall.sql’
  2. Upload new files
  3. Run ‘Googlefroogle.sql’Cheers!
25 Jul 2007, 4:10 PM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Yes, that is correct. You can overwrite the files that are uploaded. However, be careful with the files which are core overwrites. For these files rename to .bak before uploading and also do a database backup.

26 Jul 2007, 5:59 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

numinix:

That shouldn't be possible since his version doesn't support the product_type...?

The version I use does ;-)

26 Jul 2007, 6:02 AM
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Re: Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Ah, then you are using a custom version. The final version by Andrew (v1.3.3) uses "label" in place of the "product_type" which was the first change I ever made in version v1.3.4.

I am considering switching to rss 2.0 but this would be a major update and I have yet to learn XML. Could you please reply to my PM.