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[eww]

could anybody give me instructions on how to make my froogle feed use the SEO urls from nimmit's sef contrubution?

this is the contribution i use: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...l/search,nimmit


i have no idea what to do from here?
any help is appreciated

[FlyingMonkey]

radders, on Oct 9 2005, 03:57 AM, said:

According to the Froogle rules, if there is no image you should leave the field blank rather than insert a no_image.gif

that's what i thought too.... except mforey posted this:

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If my product does not have an image, Froogle Data Feeder is just putting the path to my images as specified in froogle.php. Is there anyway to specifiy if no image exists for a product to use no_image.gif? My feed is getting rejected by Froogle for invalid images. If this is answered previously in this forum, please excuse me, I could not find it.

Thanks in advance.

i just checked with the froogle specs, and your right david:

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URL of the product image. Required if you have product images on your web site. Use your full-sized product images; do not use thumbnail images. If you do not have an image available, leave the field blank. Please do not include an image that says "Image not available".

nice catch

[FlyingMonkey]

Based on the Froogle instructions, here's an updated no-image fix. If you use the untested fix, please PM me the results and a link to the feed. Thanks!

Find:

CONCAT( '" . $imageURL . "' , products.products_image) AS image_url,

Replace with:

IF(products.products_image, CONCAT( '" . $imageURL . "' ,products.products_image) , '') AS image_url,

[FlyingMonkey]

supposedly, the code above doesn't work. i'll have to take a look at the code and test it later.... once i can get some free time away from work.

[FlyingMonkey]

Despite the image problem people are complaining about. I did some testing and the original code already does what Froogle wants, so there's no needed fix (as nothing is wrong).

This is a feed generated from my "test" store:
https://www.carblitesolutions.com/feeds/car...tesolutions.txt

The second to last product is the 'Test' Product and has no image specified in the database and has no link and/or information either (meaning the feeder is working correctly and in spec with Froogle).

I have also checked feeds from 4 other stores and there's no indication of a problem, including (one person who complained). Most likely, this is triggered by anything that may be in the image field for the particular product.

[eww]

does anybody know how to make my froogle feed use the SEO urls from nimmit's sef contrubution?

this is the contribution i use: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...l/search,nimmit

[OSNewIsh]

Sorry to ask a thick question but does this contribution only feed to Froogle or does it feed to other comparison sites?

I see the first page of this thread mentions others like Yahoo, Amazon etc. but I cant see any mention of these in the download.

Thanks in advance.

[FlyingMonkey]

OSNewIsh, on Oct 14 2005, 01:41 PM, said:

Sorry to ask a thick question but does this contribution only feed to Froogle or does it feed to other comparison sites?

I see the first page of this thread mentions others like Yahoo, Amazon etc. but I cant see any mention of these in the download.

Thanks in advance.

Only Froogle. There is seperate packages for Yahoo and Bizrate available. I was suppose to release a system that would handle more of the different feeds, but i haven't had time between school and work. I was working on a version a while back... the system worked, but it sucked too much to be released. one day.... when i'm free i'll try coding a new version.

[zboyblue]

Has anyone figured out how to make this work with salemaker? My Froogle listings have been stopped because my feed is wrong. To try and manually change the prices would be nuts.

Please let me know if there is any hope of this working.

Craig

[dootch]

Is there a way to add append a date to my outfile that I save? I would like to save them for reference rather than overwrite them daily. I suppose It could go froogle-101705.txt I suppose it would be added to this section

$OutFile = "../xyz/froogle.txt"; //"CHANGEME-full-path-to-file-with-777-dir-and-file-permissions.fr-outfile.txt";

Does anyone have an idea??

[FlyingKites]

Wow this is a long post. Any chance of starting a new topic on feeds and getting a summary of the current status?

I read a post dated yonks ago:

Amazon: Feed API Found
BizRate: Completed
Froogle: Completed
MySimon: Feed API Needed
PriceGrabber: Feed API Needed
Shopping.com: Feed API Needed
Yahoo.com: Completed


But I later read some work was being done on Shopping.com - any update on that one? I could not find anything but I could be blind

thanks

[FlyingMonkey]

dootch, on Oct 17 2005, 01:45 PM, said:

Is there a way to add append a date to my outfile that I save? I would like to save them for reference rather than overwrite them daily. I suppose It could go froogle-101705.txt I suppose it would be added to this section

$OutFile = "../xyz/froogle.txt"; //"CHANGEME-full-path-to-file-with-777-dir-and-file-permissions.fr-outfile.txt";

Does anyone have an idea??

you could do that using the php date function... but you'd have to update the filename with froogle everytime (so it'd be quite an inconvenience), unless u were planning only to backup the data and not use it for froogle.

[Mediajuggle]

question.. i'm new to this whole Froogle thing so be gentle...

when i run the Froogle feed i see this:

File completed: my_myfilename_com.txt

1. does that mean everything went through and was uploaded to Froggle?
2. how long should it take before i see my products listed?

I'm not to sure I understand about listing the music categories....

the instructions say:
4a) Additional Setup for Product Type (Optional: Only if $product_type is enabled and you sell books, videos, or music)
Find line 281, and edit this section accordingly. Do not edit, the lines marked, "DO NOT EDIT".

and list and example as:

Examples:
if($catNameTemp == "books") //If the category name of the product is where you are selling books is "Books", convert it to lowercase and insert "books" as shown
if($catNameTemp == "cds" || $catNameTemp == "blink 182") //This case is for when you are selling music in multiple categories, the category names of the products where you sell music are "CDs" and "Blink 182"

but what does that mean...

I sell latin music downloads so how should i set this up?
like this?

else if($catNameTemp == "salsa, bachata, tango, etc") //Enter the category names for the categories that pertain to music.
$productTypeOut = "music"; //DO NOT EDIT

Edited by Mediajuggle, 18 October 2005, 23:27.

[FlyingMonkey]

Mediajuggle, on Oct 18 2005, 04:26 PM, said:

question.. i'm new to this whole Froogle thing so be gentle...

when i run the Froogle feed i see this:

File completed: my_myfilename_com.txt

1. does that mean everything went through and was uploaded to Froggle?
2. how long should it take before i see my products listed?

I'm not to sure I understand about listing the music categories....

the instructions say:
4a) Additional Setup for Product Type (Optional: Only if $product_type is enabled and you sell books, videos, or music)
Find line 281, and edit this section accordingly. Do not edit, the lines marked, "DO NOT EDIT".

and list and example as:

Examples:
if($catNameTemp == "books") //If the category name of the product is where you are selling books is "Books", convert it to lowercase and insert "books" as shown
if($catNameTemp == "cds" || $catNameTemp == "blink 182") //This case is for when you are selling music in multiple categories, the category names of the products where you sell music are "CDs" and "Blink 182"

but what does that mean...

I sell latin music downloads so how should i set this up?
like this?

else if($catNameTemp == "salsa, bachata, tango, etc") //Enter the category names for the categories that pertain to music.
$productTypeOut = "music"; //DO NOT EDIT

no, but close... thanks for attempting your own solution first.

it should look like this assuming that the categories are salsa, bachata, and tango for the particular products. the categories must be the ones specified directly to the products (not parent categories).


else if($catNameTemp == "salsa" || | $catNameTemp == "bachata" || $catNameTemp == "tango")

[FlyingMonkey]

oops, typo. like this without the extra "|"

else if($catNameTemp == "salsa" || $catNameTemp == "bachata" || $catNameTemp == "tango")

[Mediajuggle]

FlyingMonkey, on Oct 18 2005, 11:42 PM, said:

oops, typo. like this without the extra "|"

else if($catNameTemp == "salsa" || $catNameTemp == "bachata" || $catNameTemp == "tango")

okay thanks....... and thanks for a painless contribution that was totally easy to install...

[Mediajuggle]

2 things...

1. If I have a category listed as "World/New Age", how should I list that in the Froogle.php file? As two seperate categories or just as it appears?

2. I tried uploading and I got this error...
Outcome: Feed contains some errors - help
Number of items processed: 2055
Number of items succeeded: 2055
Number of active items: 0

I'm running a heavily modified store, would that have anything to do with the error?

[radders]

Cartel,
That sound like a success to me! Now wait a few weeks for them to review your feed then once it is approved the error should go away.

[Mediajuggle]

i'm not too sure about that....
on my page it states:

Feed not approved to go live - help

[Mediajuggle]

sorry... you're right...
thanks...

This error usually means that your feed is currently awaiting approval from Froogle. Please wait 5 to 7 business days for us to complete the review. You will also see the message, "Feed pending content approval," on the feed details page if it is not yet approved. Once your feed is approved, we'll let you know by email.

You will also see this error if you have not set your feed to show on Froogle. In this case you will need to check the "Show this feed on Froogle" box on the "Change feed options" page. If you have any questions, please contact us for assistance.