Contributions

Due to Google's combination of Google Base and Froogle. I have released a new contribution to reflect the change.

Please use the following new contribution link:

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,4513

After submitting my data via the feeder i got an email from google saying that the script was adding "t" instead of an actual tab into the file.

If you get this problem, here's a fix:

In your froogle.php find ->

$output = "link t title t description t price t image_link t label t id";

replace with ->

$output = "link \t title \t description \t price \t image_link \t label \t id";

done :)

After Google made changes to Froogle/GoogleBase I found that I wasnt able to upload successfully.
Here are some changes I made to my catalog/admin/froogle.php and all is well again.

***Change
$ftp_server = "hedwig.google.com" ;
***to
$ftp_server = "uploads.google.com" ;

***Change
$output = "product_url t name t description t price t image_url t category t offer_id";
***to
$output = "link t title t description t price t image_link t label t id";

Remember to back up back up back up, just in case.

Cheers, Wayne

PS, my first contribution to Contributions.

Froogle Data Feeder v1.63
Released By: Calvin K
E-Mail: calvink@conceptualnetworking.com
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Date: June 21, 2006

Description: Creates and automatically sends a data feed to Froogle, to provide product information and pictures. This Froogle Data Feeder, handles product duplicates, specials(if available), currency conversion, tax support, html descriptions, full category trees, and automatic upload. In addition, the Froogle Data Feeder supports advance feeds. With the advance feed option enabled and the "instock" field enabled, it will create a feed with all of the products. Without the advance feed option enabled, it will only submit in stock items.

Forum Thread: http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showtopic=71088&st=386 (aka FlyingMonkey on the forums)

Feature: Adds Support for MySQL 5.

This release is stable.

This is an update of Froogle Data Feeder v1.62d that has been revised has been revised to work with Ultimate SEO URLs 2.1d (http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2823)
This is a complete copy of v1.62d and can be used with or without SEO.

A feeder for google base has also been added with the additional optional optional available with it. See http://www.google.com/base for info on google base.

This is an update of Froogle Data Feeder v1.62d that has been revised has been revised to work with Ultimate SEO URLs 2.1d (http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2823)
This is a complete copy of v1.62d and can be used with or without SEO.

Please ignore the previous contribution adding SEO as I mistakenly based it on v1.62a

This is an update of Froogle Data Feeder v1.62d that has been revised has been revised to work with Ultimate SEO URLs 2.1d (http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2823)

This is only a replacement for froogle.php. Simply install the original froogle datafeeder and replace the original with this file. Ultimate SEO must be installed first for this contribution to work.

Froogle Data Feeder v1.62d
Released By: Calvin K
E-Mail: calvink@conceptualnetworking.com
------------------------

Date: December 21, 2005

Description: Creates and automatically sends a data feed to Froogle, to provide product information and pictures. This Froogle Data Feeder, handles product duplicates, specials(if available), currency conversion, tax support, html descriptions, full category trees, and automatic upload. In addition, the Froogle Data Feeder supports advance feeds. With the advance feed option enabled and the "instock" field enabled, it will create a feed with all of the products. Without the advance feed option enabled, it will only submit in stock items.

Forum Thread: http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showtopic=71088&st=386 (aka FlyingMonkey on the forums)

Author: calvink@conceptualnetworking.com