Guest Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Bad characters in file name Your data feed's file name uses some characters we do not allow. Please rename your file using only letters, numbers, and underscores. I just updated the latest froogle.php i keep getting this same error above from froogle. this is the name of my file.. books4u2.txt. I don't understand.. from reading this forum.. nobody is having the same problems I am. Thank you in advance noppie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMonkey Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 you didn't name the file correctly, seems like you have an extra "." at the end of "txt" the filename must match the name of the file they gave you to use. Quote Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatDadRick Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Found a typo I think. "$strip_replace" at lines 251 and 252 in v143 (192 & 193 in v13737) should be "$_strip_replace". I don't see that this is doing much with my store but without the first underscore my httpd error log was getting two "undefined variable" error lines for each product in my catalog. My log files are big enough so anything I can do to minimize the file sizes and make them more readable is a plus. Any word on when the 1.5 version will be available? Thanks, Rick Knight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMonkey Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 (edited) ahh, nice catch! i've already put 1.5 into development so a beta version should be out in the coming weeks. which feature where you looking for? Edited August 16, 2004 by FlyingMonkey Quote Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatDadRick Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Calvin, I'm looking for the admin panel manual feed function. Thanks, Rick Knight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMonkey Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 i have most of the code written already for it, and i think it works. it just isn't "pretty" yet. i'll try to spend some time on it. Quote Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMonkey Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Froogle Data Feeder v1.4.4 Released By: Calvin K ------------------------ Date: August 16, 2004 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, 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. Please note v1.4 adds the required field "offer_id." It uses "product_id" as the "offer_id", so if your feeds are currently using another value please change it accordingly. (e.g. "product_model" ) on line 256. (Thanks Mibble) http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2000 v1.4 series adds the advance feed options. v1.4.4 fixes "httpd error log" errors, this should have no affect in terms of output for the froogle feeder systems. (Thanks CatDadRick) Quote Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
talon177 Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 Shopping Comparison Search Engines! Current Status: In Progress, of componentizing. Amazon: Feed API Found BizRate: Completed Froogle: Completed MySimon: Feed API Needed PriceGrabber: Feed API Needed Shopping.com: Feed API Needed Yahoo.com: Completed Any help in locating the Feed API's is much appreciated. Please let me know if there are others out there. I'll try to check for some API's, does anyone else know any other feeder sites? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
talon177 Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 Ok Found MySimon, it's located at http://www.mysimon.com/4002-5-5099734.html They sure know how to hide it. Especially when their FAQ's point to the wrong page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMonkey Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 (edited) cool, thanks talon. very true about the mySimon, i tried looking for it too and ended up on that FAQ page. i'll try to make a feeder for it tonite or tomorrow. i may have a beta for 1.5 eariler than expected. this would make it a lot easier to create the other feeds and follow the new upcoming structure in 2.0 Edited August 17, 2004 by FlyingMonkey Quote Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMonkey Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 i wrote a simple admin box for the feeds, then created the typical admin wrap for the froogle.php as feeder.php both are in the same folder (feeder.php "includes" froogle.php). it runs and generates the feed fine, but gives the error (when it attempts to upload): Connected to hedwig.google.com, for user carblitesolutions Warning: ftp_put(): carblitesolutions.txt: Permission denied on server. (Overwrite) in /homepages/11/d94365201/htdocs/cls/catalog/clsadmin/froogle.php on line 233 FTP upload has FAILED! source: ../froogle/carblitesolutions.txt dest: carblitesolutions.txt Script timer: 1.040117 seconds. independently froogle.php still runs fine and uploads on its own. i tried using the ftp passive code from the eariler in this thread, but it didn't help. any ideas? Quote Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMonkey Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 (edited) I even set the paths to be absolute (generates the file, but won't upload) through "feeders.php": /homepages/11/d94365201/htdocs/cls/catalog/froogle/carblitesolutions.txt hmm... the problem seems to be something in "application_top.php" seeing how this doesn't use the "tep" function, i wonder if that's the problem. (i really hope not) Edited August 17, 2004 by FlyingMonkey Quote Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMonkey Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 let me reprase that. the problem is caused when application_top.php is included into feeders.php, all other php files other than froogle.php were commented out. Quote Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 Shopping Comparison Search Engines! Current Status: In Progress, of componentizing. Amazon: Feed API Found BizRate: Completed Froogle: Completed MySimon: Feed API Needed PriceGrabber: Feed API Needed Shopping.com: Feed API Needed Yahoo.com: Completed Any help in locating the Feed API's is much appreciated. Please let me know if there are others out there. I'll try to check for some API's, does anyone else know any other feeder sites? Talon, I have a shopping.com feed. it will need to be modified to fit the package you are tring to build ( i assume you are trying to make a all in one feed mod ). Let me know if you need the code... Mac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMonkey Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 Shopping Comparison Search Engines! Current Status: In Progress, of componentizing. Amazon: Feed API Found BizRate: Completed Froogle: Completed MySimon: Feed API Needed PriceGrabber: Feed API Needed Shopping.com: Feed API Needed Yahoo.com: Completed Any help in locating the Feed API's is much appreciated.? Please let me know if there are others out there. I'll try to check for some API's, does anyone else know any other feeder sites? Talon, I have a shopping.com feed. it will need to be modified to fit the package you are tring to build ( i assume you are trying to make a all in one feed mod ). Let me know if you need the code... Mac do you have the API for shopping.com? if so could you please pm me. thanks. Quote Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
talon177 Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 If you could pm it to flyingmonkey that be great. Also thanks for the info for the other comparison engines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMonkey Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 i'm currently still puzzled by the feeder.php problem. instead of integrating, the separate feeders into feeder.php. it will just provide links to the feeders for the time being. Quote Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMonkey Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 from google support: "Thanks for your email. The offer_id field is required to uniquely identify your products. The offer_id can be the same as the product name or SKU, but each offer_id should be unique. If all your items have unique names, you can remove the offer_id column from your feed entirely." Quote Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarocque Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 Nice contribution - I am currntly using 1.3.7 - is there a way to modify this version so it only puts out "Active" items. I understand the new version will handle inventory, but we do not use inventory option but have some item we hav disabled and do not want to put them out. Any suggestions? Quote osC Contributions I have published. Note: Some I only provided minor changes, updates or additions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMonkey Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 (edited) All versions output only "active" items, including 1.3.7 build 13 and the lastest version 1.4.4 as stated in the description. The only exception is in 1.4.4 when both advance options and product_status is enabled. Edited August 18, 2004 by FlyingMonkey Quote Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattmcb Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 Has anyone tried and used this successfully with 170,000 products? I can't get it to work. Should I stream the file for download or split it up into different files? I even tried using my SSL and it still timed out. Any suggestions? Quote Thanks, Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMonkey Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 (edited) i run it on ~40 products, so even when v1.3 (beta) was running in n^3 time. It still finished in less than 10 seconds. I haven't heard anyone else use it with over 8k. Do you have a dedicated server? That's a huge file, probably several hundred MB. I think you might need that in RAM too. The code could probably be modified to write straight to disk per line, but that would slow things down quite a bit. Execution time should still be fairly reasonable, without the FTP. Edited August 18, 2004 by FlyingMonkey Quote Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarocque Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 Thanks Calvin - I do not see the setting for product status in 1.4.4 - am I missing something? Quote osC Contributions I have published. Note: Some I only provided minor changes, updates or additions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingMonkey Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 i meant $instock in the advance options area, but if you don't enable the advance options or use a version previous to 1.3.7 it outputs only "active" products. Quote Most likely your question has been answered, please do a search first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarocque Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 OK - thanks - I upgraded to 1.4.4 and left them disabled. Hopefully 1.4.4 is bug free :) Quote osC Contributions I have published. Note: Some I only provided minor changes, updates or additions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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