New Release! - Category and brand indexes, Google Sitemap support, more...

At first glance, this looks great - just what was needed...

Alas I am now off to Gay Paris for a few days, and as such won't get to play with it...

Huge thanks for all of the hard work that you have put into this, in any case..

Have found a problem with Search and replace filteres

Comet has 2 categories Fridges Freezers and Fridge Freezers

i want to combine them, so i setup a filter

search: Fridges Freezers
replace: Fridge Freezers

but every time i re-import the filter does not do the search and replace

Hi Dave, Can I ask what files have been changed or are there just new files, also are there any database changes?

Chris

Yes there are DB changes..

and most of the other pages are different as the way it check for mod-rewrite has changed

i kept the old index.php default.css and in the includes i kept head and footer

uploaded everything else, added the new links for category and brand and then reapplied and other changes i made

i deleted the tables in the DB to start with so that setup could recreate them

then re-registered the feeds and imported

Hi Searley,

I can't get Search and Replace to fail at the moment, and more specifically looking at the Comet feed it doesn't look like I have the same version as you. Mine has:

Freezers
Fridge Freezers
Fridges

Are you using the Affiliate Window XML feed?

The comet feed is CSV as is Bennets Electrical

take a look at: http://www.shoppingchanneluk.com/category/

you will see Fridges Freezers

http://www.shoppingchanneluk.com/category/Fridges-Freezers/

i have checked the db itself and the category is Fridges Freezers i was wondering if it was being changed for display but no..

so as i say, done search and replace Fridges Freezers for Fridge Freezers without joy

as i say this is on 2 feeds comet and benetts electrical

OK, I understand the issue now - i've managed to recreate the problem using the Bennets Electrical feed.

The issue is to do with the "normalisation" that makes everything safe to use in URLs etc. The reason the search on "Fridges Freezers" fails is because the actual value is "Fridges & Freezers", but the & is dropped because it is not URL safe.

I'm looking into this now and working out the best way to deal with it. At the moment, I think this would be to make the web-safe filter (the default) be applied first, before any user filters...

Hi,

I've now made it so that the default filters are applied before the user filters (which makes more sense).

I've checked it on the Bennetts Electrical feed, and successfully Search and Replaced "Fridges Freezers" to "Fridge Freezers" to match the other category of a similar name.

The only change is to includes/admin.php.

will test later and report

regards

i can confirm that issue is now fixed

I have just downloaded the Webgains Dreamdirect feed in xml format, and registered it when i goto http://shoppingchanneluk.com/merchant/Dream-Direct/ only one product is shown

however admin shows 1178

Hiya,

Looks like you've selected "PROGRAM_NAME" instead of "PRODUCT_NAME" as the product name field, so it has imported 1198 products; they're just all called "Dream Direct"...

I've done that myself a few times. In fact, what i'm thinking of doing; is that the field names can be guessed a lot of the time by the software, for example, I could make it so that the product name field would default to anything called:

"PRODUCTNAME" or "PRODUCT_NAME". It wouldn't take long to look at all the standard feed formats from the main affiliate networks and setup a lookup table of standard mappings...

ooops sorry forget it, it helps when you try to use PRODUCT_ID and not PROGRAM_ID should wear my glasses!!

No probs :) By the way - have you checked your site in FireFox? Something goes a bit awry with your logo at the top...

No not installed FF on the mac.. does it look any better now, its a strange issue with FF not tiling BG images in tables properly

That's better now :)

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