Hello Pedro,

> As I understood, the first feed that is imported is the one
> that will give the main description of the product in the
> products.php page. All the feeds that come afterward are
> just going to be listed as a stockist. Is this right?

There's no specific relevance to the first feed imported. The image and description on the product page come from the cheapest merchant for that product; and then in the prices table they are all listed as stockist in order of price.

> The same with categories, if I import the categories field
> from the first feed, all the other feeds that I import
> later and have the same categories will have their
> products associated with the original categories?

Again there's no relevance to the first feed with regards to categories - unless you use Category Mapping (more on that in a second) every product is simply imported with whatever category value it has in its feed (if at all), and then the full Category list you see on the Category A-Z is taken from the entire database (although it only shows each category once on the index page of course).

The Category Mapping feature is intended to let you match up categories between different feeds where different merchants use slightly different names for the same category. For example, one merchant might use the category "Televisions", whilst another uses "LCD TV". Let's say you want these both to appear on your site in the single category "Televisions". Create a new Category Mapping (/admin/ menu) for "Televisions", and then in the Alternatives box on the configuration page, simply enter "LCD TV". Then, whenever a category of "LCD TV" is found during the import process, it will be changed to "Televisions".

> I've been using the Amazon API, I've downloaded the amazon.php
> and have it working now. By the way, the products that show
> are not very much revelant to the search. But my question
> is about the possibility of importing the amazon products
> as if it was the first feed. Basically, duplicating the
> amazon category system and product descriptions. Is
> this possible?

As Amazon don't provide a feed it can normally only be used to compliment search or price comparison results, but see below...

> Also I've seen amazon products being listed as stockist for
> example in {link saved}. How can I do this?

I have a mod to do this, but I would be careful if the Amazon products are not well related. What I would suggest first is making sure that you are using the most appropriate SearchIndex value in your amazon.php (line 128). The script uses "Blended" by default which is category-wide, but you can fine tune that by using one of the categorised indexes shown here...

> Also, in that same website, the products use the jump.php
> script and it uses clean urls. How can I do this?

Using jump.php shouldn't affect using clean URLs - both can
be enabled in your $config.php - simply set

$config_useRewrite = TRUE; (line 8)
and
$config_useTracking = TRUE; (line 12)

Don't forget to create your .htaccess file of course by making it from a copy of htaccess.txt from the distribution. If your installation is in the top level of your website you don't need to make any changes, otherwise, simply edit the RewriteBase value (line 5) to be the same as $config_baseHREF in your config.php.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
David.
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PriceTapestry.com

Hey Pedro,

What you could do, if you had one feed with loads of products all correctly categorised, is assign that feed as the 'category authority' and then, like product/category/brand mapping etc., any other feeds you import where the product name matches that in the 'authority feed', assign the authoritative category value to the newly imported product.

Cheers.
Keeop

David: Thank you very much for your answer.

The category mapping feature is very good and I'll use it.

It's great that you already have a amazon as stockist script and I will ask for it later, for sure.

Already turned on the two features and they work great.

Keeop: Hi! How can I make a category an authority one?