(Contribution) Froogle/Google Base, Yahoo, and Bizrate Feeds

[dean0088]

I'm getting the following error

 

File completed: frooglefile.txt

Connected to uploads.google.com, for user theautonut

uploads.google.com: FTP upload has failed!

 

Script timer: 4.786349 seconds.

 

When trying to send to the Froogle feed. I confirmed that the Google FTP is working, and everything appears to be setup ok with the contribution.

 

Anyone run into this before?

 

Dean

[Rachael w.]

Should anyone with any knowledge of this contrib decide to stop by:

 

I am having a different issue but didnt want to clutter the board with another thread.

 

My feed uploaded fine. When I view an item in googlebase it shows an product url of http://www.the-antique-store.com/product_i...?products_id=74

 

But the actual product url is http://www.the-antique-store.com/catalog/p...;products_id=74

 

It looks like its missing the "cPath=26&" in there. Why is this? What can I do to fix this?

 

I am certainly happy with the ease of sending the feed, but it really does me no good if no one can actually get to my item.

[iofast]

You should not be using froogle directly anymore. Google is telling everyone to import products via google base. I have been doing this for months now and my products replicate properly across base and froogle. It is a pretty straight forward modification if you already have your own script to interface froogle. probably 10-15 minutes worth of changes to the script I had to interface froogle.

[Rachael w.]

You should not be using froogle directly anymore. Google is telling everyone to import products via google base. I have been doing this for months now and my products replicate properly across base and froogle. It is a pretty straight forward modification if you already have your own script to interface froogle. probably 10-15 minutes worth of changes to the script I had to interface froogle.

 

Are you using a contrib to feed to google? This particular contrib sends the items to googlebase. My issue is that while it is doing a great job of sending it and google is receiving it without error I see that the urls are wrong and that the photos didnt come along either.

[Terra]

Should anyone with any knowledge of this contrib decide to stop by:

 

I am having a different issue but didnt want to clutter the board with another thread.

 

My feed uploaded fine. When I view an item in googlebase it shows an product url of http://www.the-antique-store.com/product_i...?products_id=74

 

But the actual product url is http://www.the-antique-store.com/catalog/p...;products_id=74

 

It looks like its missing the "cPath=26&" in there. Why is this? What can I do to fix this?

 

I am certainly happy with the ease of sending the feed, but it really does me no good if no one can actually get to my item.

You don't need the cPath - the cPath only shows when you navigate to a product via a category. A product can however actually be shown in more than one category and also be accessed directly just with its products_id path. The URL is therefore correct and the cPath an optional extra which is not essential. Terra

[Rachael w.]

ok, I figured it out, I didnt realize I needed to edit the froogle.php file in admin (must have missed that in the instructions) I fixed it. I didnt notice it was missing the entire catalog dir! Even looking at the two urls I posted here I cant believe I didnt notice the missing "catalog" in the one on froogle!

 

Sorry for bugging everyone with my own stupidity and thank you for your responses!

[Rachael w.]

froogle=googlebase....it made it to google however we'd like to describe it.

 

Thanks again!

[Gameprodigy]

ok, I figured it out, I didnt realize I needed to edit the froogle.php file in admin (must have missed that in the instructions) I fixed it. I didnt notice it was missing the entire catalog dir! Even looking at the two urls I posted here I cant believe I didnt notice the missing "catalog" in the one on froogle!

 

Sorry for bugging everyone with my own stupidity and thank you for your responses!

 

 

could you tell what part of the file you edited to correct this, I to am having an issue because my files are not in the root directory they are in root/catalog so all my links and images are not showing because the feed file generates the links as the it was root/product_info.

 

Where did you add the /catalog at in the file to get this to work.

[Gameprodigy]

could you tell what part of the file you edited to correct this, I to am having an issue because my files are not in the root directory they are in root/catalog so all my links and images are not showing because the feed file generates the links as the it was root/product_info.

 

Where did you add the /catalog at in the file to get this to work.

 

 

For those the same boat I found the solution

 

find this line

to-froogle.txt";
$source_file = $OutFile;
$imageURL = HTTP_SERVER.'/images/';
$productURL = HTTP_SERVER.'/product_info.php?products_id=';
$already_sent = array();

 

and change it to

to-froogle.txt";
$source_file = $OutFile;
$imageURL = HTTP_SERVER.'/catalog/images/';
$productURL = HTTP_SERVER.'/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=';
$already_sent = array();

 

This will change the image path and link path output so when you run the feed it will have the proper links if your directory is /catalog/ if your catalog file are not in a folder called /catalog, then you problably have your files in your root directory so changing this will only cause more errors this fix is only for people who have all there files in a catalog directory.