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You would need to add database entries in the products table. Then add code to the admin/categories.php file to be able to set those new fields. Then the googlefeeder file has to be edited. The line you mentioned is just the option. Farther down in the code is the sql statement for loading in the data. That is where you have to setup the new fields that were added.

 

It's not a very difficult job for someone with experience. Someone without experience in making such changes can do it, but it would require a lot more effort. There is a contribution named products extra fields, or something like that, that makes it so you can add such fields easily. It may not be completely compatible with Easy Populate though. I think that was being worked on but don't know the status. And you would still have to manually change the googlefeeder code.

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Hi Jack,

 

I've only taken one database class. But it was years ago.

 

I found new_field_everywhere contribution, I wonder if that will help.

 

I'll also try those others you suggested,

 

Thank you,

 

Jason

 

EDIT --- I think I'm going with that "Product Extra Fields" you mentioned. I don't use "easy populate" so that's no big deal to me.

 

Thanks again,

 

Jason

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The Products Extra Fields is referring to a section of code that Header Tags SEO is inside.

 

So can I do this?

 

/*** Begin Header Tags SEO ***/

  if (isset ($HTTP_GET_VARS['pID']) && (!$HTTP_POST_VARS) ) {

     $product_query = tep_db_query("select pd.products_name, pd.products_description, pd.products_head_title_tag, pd.products_head_desc_tag, pd.products_head_keywords_tag, pd.products_url, p.products_id, p.products_quantity, p.products_model, p.products_image, p.products_price, p.products_weight, p.products_date_added, p.products_last_modified, date_format(p.products_date_available, '%Y-%m-%d') as products_date_available, p.products_status, p.products_tax_class_id, p.manufacturers_id from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p, " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . " pd where p.products_id = '" . (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['pID'] . "' and p.products_id = pd.products_id and pd.language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "'");

     $product = tep_db_fetch_array($product_query);                            

  /*** End Header Tags SEO ***/

// BOF Extra Fields Contribution	  
     $products_extra_fields_query = tep_db_query("SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_TO_PRODUCTS_EXTRA_FIELDS . " WHERE products_id=" . (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['pID']);
     while ($products_extra_fields = tep_db_fetch_array($products_extra_fields_query)) {
       $extra_field[$products_extra_fields['products_extra_fields_id']] = $products_extra_fields['products_extra_fields_value'];
     }
  $extra_field_array=array('extra_field'=>$extra_field);
  $pInfo->objectInfo($extra_field_array);
// EOF Extra Fields Contribution


     $pInfo->objectInfo($product);
   } elseif (tep_not_null($HTTP_POST_VARS)) {
     $pInfo->objectInfo($HTTP_POST_VARS);
     $products_name = $HTTP_POST_VARS['products_name'];
     $products_description = $HTTP_POST_VARS['products_description'];
     $products_url = $HTTP_POST_VARS['products_url'];
   }

 

Thanks for any ideas,

 

Jason

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Ok, so I have to have the google feeder sql code changed a little bit so that it will request products_extra_fields

 

This is what the google feeder looks like as it is:

 

$sql = "
SELECT concat( '" . $productURL . "' ,products.products_id) AS product_url,
products_model AS prodModel,
manufacturers.manufacturers_name AS mfgName,
manufacturers.manufacturers_id,
products.products_id AS id,
products_description.products_name AS name,
products_description.products_description AS description,
products.products_quantity AS quantity,
products.products_status AS prodStatus,
products.products_weight AS prodWeight,
FORMAT( IFNULL(specials.specials_new_products_price, products.products_price) * " . $taxCalc . ",2) AS price,
CONCAT( '" . $imageURL . "' ,products.products_image) AS image_url,
products_to_categories.categories_id AS prodCatID,
categories.parent_id AS catParentID,
categories_description.categories_name AS catName
FROM (categories,
categories_description,
products,
products_description,
products_to_categories)

left join manufacturers on ( manufacturers.manufacturers_id = products.manufacturers_id )
left join specials on ( specials.products_id = products.products_id AND ( ( (specials.expires_date > CURRENT_DATE) OR (specials.expires_date is NULL) OR (specials.expires_date = 0) ) AND ( specials.status = 1 ) ) )

WHERE products.products_id=products_description.products_id
AND products.products_id=products_to_categories.products_id
AND products_to_categories.categories_id=categories.categories_id
AND categories.categories_id=categories_description.categories_id
ORDER BY
products.products_id ASC
";


$catInfo = "
SELECT
categories.categories_id AS curCatID,
categories.parent_id AS parentCatID,
categories_description.categories_name AS catName
FROM
categories,
categories_description
WHERE categories.categories_id = categories_description.categories_id
";

 

The database table entry that "extra product fields" created is called products_extra_fields and the field which I want google feeder to get is called product_extra_fields_name and the value it is given by me in admin was "Condition"

 

Can someone steer me in the right direction for making the Google Feeder see a particular product that has the extra field for Condition and have it pull out "Used" or "New" (as written in admin)?

 

Thanks,

 

Jason

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The reason why the "condition" attribute is so important on this contribution is because Google is making the "condition" attribute a requirement.

 

Google blog

 

For shops like mine, where there are new, used and even some refurbished (restored) items available, making this step automated is pretty important.

 

I plan on making a write-up for the contribution so that others can benefit.

 

Jason

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The condition field has been required for some time now. But this contribution can't assume everyone will have a field for it in the database, or even what that field would be named, so it isn't something that can be added without overly complicating the code for those shops that don't need each product marked.

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Maybe this has been discussed before, but I had to make a couple of changes to my code in order to get it working for me correctly. Maybe I just misinterpreted the options settings.

 

First, my shop is fully ssl secured. Not just the cart but all of it. So I added the option and conditional statement to set the URLs to https:// if the option is set to true. maybe you can consider that in a future release.

 

And second, the option asked for domain name and not catalog root url so I entered just the domain name. The result was that all of the links were wrong in that none of them had the path correct. the /catalog/ was not included. But, I did not know, and still do not, if Google needs that domain name or if it is there just to build the URL in the script. Can you clarify that Jack?

 

 

Excellent job again.

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First, my shop is fully ssl secured. Not just the cart but all of it. So I added the option and conditional statement to set the URLs to https:// if the option is set to true. maybe you can consider that in a future release.

It's a mistake to use ssl for the whole shop so I wouldn't add that as an option to the contribution.

 

And second, the option asked for domain name and not catalog root url so I entered just the domain name. The result was that all of the links were wrong in that none of them had the path correct. the /catalog/ was not included. But, I did not know, and still do not, if Google needs that domain name or if it is there just to build the URL in the script. Can you clarify that Jack?

Google needs the domain name. The url should contain your shops location.

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It's been discussed many times on these forums and isn't a topic for this thread. You can search the forums and find the various threads.

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Hi Jack:

Seems Google change something. This module can't work now. All upload have error "Disapproved"

 

Would you please help to give some advise asap?

 

Thanks & Best Regards,

Sunrise

I uploaded earlier this morning. it works fine. There are a number of reasons your products could be marked as Disapproved, one being the quantity is zero.

 

Copy the first three lines of your feed file and paste them here and lets have a look at it.

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I uploaded earlier this morning. it works fine. There are a number of reasons your products could be marked as Disapproved, one being the quantity is zero.

 

Copy the first three lines of your feed file and paste them here and lets have a look at it.

 

 

Many thanks!

 

Please help to check.

 

 

link title description expiration_date price image_link label id condition

http://www.hkfashionmall.com/christian-audigier-hats-p-895.html Christian Audigier hats Size:S.M.L 2010-01-22 39.00 http://www.hkfashionmall.com/images/10699_1_small.jpg Christian Audigier, Hats 895 New

http://www.hkfashionmall.com/christian-audigier-p-896.html Christian Audigier Hat size Unique Color Assorted 2010-01-22 38.00 http://www.hkfashionmall.com/images/10648_small.jpg Christian Audigier, Hats 896 New

http://www.hkfashionmall.com/christian-audigier-p-897.html Christian Audigier Hat size Unique Color Assorted 2010-01-22 38.00 http://www.hkfashionmall.com/images/10647_small.jpg Christian Audigier, Hats 897 New

http://www.hkfashionmall.com/christian-audigier-p-898.html Christian Audigier Hat size Unique Color Assorted 2010-01-22 38.00 http://www.hkfashionmall.com/images/10646_small.jpg Christian Audigier, Hats 898 New

 

Merry X' mas!!

 

Best Regards,

 

 

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Jack, I enabled the Manufacture_ID option and it failed to work, but found that the conditional below when building the string used Manufacturer_id. Is that a known coding error? Changing it by adding the missing 'r' fixed it right up.

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I had a feed once that I could not determine why it had been disapproved. On one of my attempts to fix it I set the expiration date one day less than in the code. This line,

 

$feed_exp_date = date('Y-m-d', time() + 2592000 );

 

I changed to,

 

$feed_exp_date = date('Y-m-d', time() + 2505600 );

 

 

It seemed to fix it although I still do not know why. It could have been something that has to do with my servers time zone, or an incorrect time on my server. You might try this, no guarantees, and it probably wont have any affect.

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link title description expiration_date price image_link label id condition

The label column heading is no longer accepted. You should upgrade to the latest version and try again.

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Jack, I enabled the Manufacture_ID option and it failed to work, but found that the conditional below when building the string used Manufacturer_id. Is that a known coding error? Changing it by adding the missing 'r' fixed it right up.

Yes, that is a mistake. Good catch.

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Jack, is there a contribution of Google Feeder that works with the Specials contribution, so that when you put some items on special you can feed just those items to Google so that google Shopping reflects your specials prices?

 

If not, interested in creating one?

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This contribution reads in the specials price already.

I guess I didn't make it clear....

 

If I have 1000 products uploaded to Google already, good for 30 days, and I put 10 of them on special, I don't want to upload the entire 1000 articles. Just the 10 I put on sale.

 

I guess it doesn't hurt to do the 1000 again...

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Yes, it would be wasted effort to add an option, or create a new script, just for that. You have to upload a new feed anyway so doing it a week or two sooner won't hurt anything.

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