Hi
For some reason i can't seem to get the system to import a feed through the admin panel, i had thought it was a time out issue but I don't get any error message and admin_import appears to execute (or at least it goes to the end without an error message the redirects with the header("Location: index.php");
I've tried it on my hosts lamp and on my EasyPHP WAMP but neither seem to want to import.
I've tried two different feeds, one quite large so i would have expected a time out error if anything, and tghe second only about 20 items but both still fail.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Chris
Hi Dave, I don't have telnet access so have only tried via feed_import.php
C
Ah ok - so you've not yet been able to import any products at all?
PHPInfo...
http://now3k.co.uk/phpinfo.php
As i've saind in another post i currently have Safe mode off - so that I can set_time_limit and register globals off set through htaccess
database connection is fine in that in that setup has been able to populate the tables initially
I see you have the novatech feed, did you get that from AW?? if so it is broken!! i can not import it either!!
there are a couple more aw feeds that dont work aswell!!
Yes it is from AW, and the other feed i've tested is the Hush Homeware one which is very small
C
Dave if you want to see it its at...
http://now3k.co.uk/feeds/xmloutput61408957.xml
Beware its about 9Mb...its the big one I've been testing
The smaller one is
http://now3k.co.uk/feeds/hush.xml
Which is 34k
If you take a look at:
http://shoppingchanneluk.com/feeds/awnovatech.txt
http://shoppingchanneluk.com/feeds/awappliancewarehouse.txt
you will see colum 4 master category breaks to a new line, when i download the file to my pc and open the file in notepad the is a funny symbol looks like a square
this seemd to prevent the import
hush feed validates at
http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/~richard/xml-check.html
Novatech just went on to my test site OK. I'm having a look at the code now, Chris, to see if I can figure why nothing's happening on your server! Database update is obviously working because the registration process created the feed record, and the Parser must be OK otherwise you wouldn't have been able to register the feed; so it's a strange one...
I'm on the case..
actually you will find you have only imported 5000 novatech items from the 7500 this is probably because not every line in the nova feed is corruptd
but the appliance feed i showed you above, only 1 product imported!!
Chris - one thing to check - make sure that you are selecting "PRODUCTNAME" and not just "PRODUCT" as the Product Name field when using Affiliate Window XML feeds...
Cheers for that - I think i was boll*cksing up by choosing "PRODUCT" instead of "PRODUCTNAME" - novatach and hush have now both imported fine
Looks good - although I notice that you are missing the semi-colon off the end of £ - check your $config_currenyHTML...you should have:
$config_currencyHTML = "£";Maybe not quite all fixed - as Searly says on the import - in the admin section it says I have imprted 7500ish products but on the http://now3k.co.uk/merchant/Novatech/ it only lists 5653 ?
fixed the pound things, well spotted :-)
The import process does a sanity check on each record and if the required fields are empty (which is quite possible in a broken feed) then the record is skipped.
Unfortunately, in the Novatech feed there are several hundred records dropped during the import process because one of more of the required fields are missing.
There is nothing you can really do about this i'm afraid. There is a project going on at A4UForum that I think is going to try and establish some quality guidelines regarding product feeds; but for the time being i'm afraid this is a fact of product feed life!
Cheers for that Dave, I'm glad theres a sensible answer and its not something else i've done wrong :-)
Hi Chris,
Just to confirm - have you just been importing using the command line version scripts/import.php until now?
Thanks,
David.