The FeedMachine

[Guest]

Hello,

 

Well I installed a great modification called the FeedMachine. Its nearly perfect but has one flaw that is a huge deal breaker. One of the built in uses does not seem to work and the original poster has disappeared. I would be more than grateful if someone could help me? Here is a link to my post. Basically the feed shows the product name. However, in my case I need the product name to be the combination of the manufacturer name and the product name.

 

function FM_UF_fc_manufacturer_and_product($product) {
 return $product['manufacturers_name'] . ' ' . $product['products_name'];
}

 

 

I followed the instructions and no matter what I do the 'FUCTION' type never seems to output anything. Many thanks to the person that can help!!!

 

Thanks again

 

Ryan

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

Hello,

 

Well I installed a great modification called the FeedMachine. Its nearly perfect but has one flaw that is a huge deal breaker. One of the built in uses does not seem to work and the original poster has disappeared. I would be more than grateful if someone could help me? Here is a link to my post. Basically the feed shows the product name. However, in my case I need the product name to be the combination of the manufacturer name and the product name.

 

function FM_UF_fc_manufacturer_and_product($product) {
 return $product['manufacturers_name'] . ' ' . $product['products_name'];
}

 

 

I followed the instructions and no matter what I do the 'FUCTION' type never seems to output anything. Many thanks to the person that can help!!!

 

Thanks again

 

Ryan

Try reducing the function to the simple statements.

function FM_UF_fc_manufacturer_and_product($product) {
 $product = $product['manufacturers_name'] . " " . $product['products_name'];
 return $product ;
}

 

How are you calling the function?

[Guest]

Try reducing the function to the simple statements.

function FM_UF_fc_manufacturer_and_product($product) {
 $product = $product['manufacturers_name'] . " " . $product['products_name'];
 return $product ;
}

 

How are you calling the function?

 

mdtaylorlrim,

 

Thanks for the response. Here is the code for the file I am using.

<?php

/**
* @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU Public License
*/

/*
Bing US feed configuration for The Feedmachine Solution
----------------------------
*/

$feed_config = array('name' => 'Bing Shopping',
                    'filename' => 'bingshopping.txt',
                    'authors' => 'RyanRLB',
                    'schema_version' => '2.0',
                     'fields' => array('id'               =>   array('output' => 'products_id',
                                                                    'type' => 'DB'
                                                                   ),
                                     	'title'            =>   array('name' => 'FM_UF_fc_manufacturer_and_product', 
                                   								  'type' => 'FUNCTION'
                                  									),
								   'brand'            =>   array('output' => 'manufacturers_name',
                                                                    'type' => 'DB',
                                                                    'options' => array('STRIP_HTML', 'HTML_ENTITIES', 'STRIP_CRLF')
                                                                   ),
                                      'price'            =>   array('output' => 'FINAL_PRICE',
                                                                    'type' => 'KEYWORD'
                                                                   ),
                                      'mpn'              =>   array('output' => 'products_model',
                                                                    'type' => 'DB'
                                                                   ),
								   'link'             =>   array('output' => 'PRODUCTS_URL',
                                                                    'type' => 'KEYWORD'
                                                                   ),
								   'price'            =>   array('output' => 'FINAL_PRICE',
                                                                    'type' => 'KEYWORD'
                                                                   ),
								   'availability'     =>   array('output' => 'In Stock',
                                                                    'type' => 'VALUE'
                                                                    ),
								   'description'      =>   array('output' => 'products_description',
                                                                    'type' => 'DB',
                                                                    'options' => array('STRIP_HTML', 'HTML_ENTITIES', 'STRIP_CRLF')
                                                                   ),
								   'image_link'       =>   array('output' => 'IMAGE_URL',
                                                                    'type' => 'KEYWORD'
                                                                   ),
								   'shipping'         =>   array('output' => '0.00',
                                                                    'type' => 'VALUE'
                                                                   ),
                                      'product_type'     =>   array('output' => 'CATEGORY_TREE',
                                                                    'type' => 'KEYWORD',
                                                                    'options' => array('STRIP_HTML', 'STRIP_CRLF')
                                                                   ),
								   'shipping_weight'  =>   array('output' => 'products_weight',
                                                                    'type' => 'DB'
                                                                   ),
                                      'condition'        =>   array('output' => 'New',
                                                                    'type' => 'VALUE'
                                                                   )

                                     ),
                    'add_field_names' => true, //whether to add header row in the feed with the field names
                    'seperator' => "\t", //the field separator in the feed. (For tab-delimited feeds this should be "\t". For csv feeds this should be ",")
                    'text_qualifier' => '', //the character with which to encapsulate field values. (For tab-delimited feeds this should usually be empty, i.e. ''. For csv feeds this should usually be '"')
                    'category_tree_seperator' => ' ', //the separator to use for the 'CATEGORY_TREE' KEYWORD (see the 'KEYWORD Field Type' section in the notes below)
                    //usually you will not need to worry about the following settings and can leave them as they are
                    'newline' => "\n",
                    'encoding' => 'utf8', //'utf8' or false for standard encoding
                    'currency_decimal_override' => false,
                    'currency_thousands_override' => '',
                    'include_record_function' => '' //(optional) specify a function that determines whether the product should be included in the feed
                   );

//FEED FUNCTIONS BEGIN
function FM_UF_fc_manufacturer_and_product($product) {
 return $product['manufacturers_name'] . ' ' . $product['products_name'];
}

//FEED FUNCTIONS END

?>

 

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

I'm no expert but when you have a function that expects to be passed a value, and you call that function without passing it a value then the function will fail.

 

I do not see where it calls the function and passes a value to it.

[lech]

Hi,

 

Just in case anyone has the same problem, this problem has been solved here:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/topic/349319-the-feedmachine-solution/page__view__findpost__p__1536075