                                  GoogleFeeder 
                          updated by Jack York (aka Jack_mcs)
                             www.oscommerce-solution.com

DESCRIPTION:
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Creates and automatically sends a data feed to Google Base. This
Google Data Feeder, handles product duplicates, specials (if 
available), currency conversion, tax support, SEO links, html 
descriptions, full category trees, automatic upload and more. 

This version is only for V 2.3.4, Fronzen and Phoenix shops.

INSTALLATION:
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1) Edit the included catalog/admin/googlefeeder.php file (be sure 
to use the directory that matches your shops version). All of
the settings are clearly marked and must be adjusted for this to
work properly. Also edit bingfeeder.php file if you want to create 
a feed for Bing.

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2) Upload all of the files in the catalog directory to the correct
location on your server. 

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3) Create a directory named feeds in the root of your shop. Set
the permissions on it to the same settings as the images directory.

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4) For non-Phoenix Only! In admin/includes/boxes/tools.php,

FIND:

      array(
        'code' => FILENAME_MAIL,

ADD ABOVE:

      array(
        'code' => 'feeders.php',
        'title' => BOX_FEEDERS_GOOGLE,
        'link' => tep_href_link('feeders.php')
      ),

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5) In admin/includes/languages/english.php, add

define('BOX_FEEDERS_GOOGLE', 'Google Base');


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6) Upload the Version Checker files located in the extra directory.

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That completes the installation. 

To test it, go to admin->Tools->GoogleBase and click on the 
"Create and do not upload a GoogleBase datafeed" link. The feed 
will be created and placed in the feeds directory created 
above. You should look over the feed to make sure it is setup 
correctly. You can do that by going to 
http://your_domain_name.com/feeds/your-outfile.txt or just click 
the link where it says File Completed on the creation page. Please
note that the feed is of type .txt, which,in this case, is a 
tab-delimited file but most computers are setup to load .txt files
as text files so the feed will be opened in whatever program your
computer is setup to use for text files, probably WordPad. To view 
the feed in a spreadsheet program, you will either need to choose
"open with" or change the file extensions relations on your
computer.

Once the feed is setup the way you want it, you should click on the 
"Create and Upload a GoogleBase datafeed" link, which will create
the feed and upload it to google. It takes about an hour for 
google to process the feed. You need to check your googlebase account
after they are done to be sure the feed was accepted.

You should create a cron job to run the feeder on a regular basis. 
If the feed is not updated at least once a month, google will remove 
your  products from their listings. To prevent that, the cron job 
should be setup to run that often. I suggest once a week to be 
sure it catches any changes you may make to the products during 
the week. The syntax for the cron job varies from host to host 
but the following may work. If not, you will need to contact your 
host for the proper syntax.

php -q /home/YOUR-USER-NAME/public_html/admin/googlefeeder.php

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What this feed won't do:

If any of your products fall into any of the following categories,
this contribution won't be able to create a properly formatted
feed for your shop due to how google requires those itmes to be
listed. In this case, if you would like a quote for making this 
change (it involves quite a bit more than be coded into a 
contribution like this), please contact me at 
support@oscommerce-soltuion.com.

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The support thread is located at:
http://forums.oscommerce.com/topic/71088-automatically-send-data-feed-to-froogle/