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Importing unique items/avoiding duplicates
Depending on the kind of feed you have there might be a lot of duplicates in your feed, for example the same travel trip with different departure dates, or widgets being identical except for the color....
View ArticleUsing share a sale productfeeds
The shareasale network provides CSV (piped) formated datafeeds. Adding the feeds to the component could be very straightforward, unfortunately the share a sale feeds have some issue's:
View Articleautomatic import using cron jobs
For automatic updating the feeds you will need to call the feedcron periodically. On unix style systems this is usually done using a cronjob. Most hosting providers allow to set up some cron. There are...
View ArticleCallback functions
This page tries to explain the usage of callback functions. callbacks are php-functions used to filter and manipulate feed data. Each item in a feed is parsed by the callback function. In the feed...
View ArticlePerformance issues
Size matters, depending on your web server there are limitations on the amount of items you can have in your database or what size the productfeeds can be. How big really depends on the server.
View ArticleCreating a custom parser
The component does support the major formats of CSV files. Using the mapping in feed configuration any CSV file (with a header row) should work. Problem might be that the 'description' field has a...
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Importing unique items/avoiding duplicates
Depending on the kind of feed you have there might be a lot of duplicates in your feed, for example the same travel trip with different departure dates, or widgets being identical except for the color....
View ArticleUsing share a sale productfeeds
The shareasale network provides CSV (piped) formated datafeeds. Adding the feeds to the component could be very straightforward, unfortunately the share a sale feeds have some issue's:
View Articleautomatic import using cron jobs
For automatic updating the feeds you will need to call the feedcron periodically. On unix style systems this is usually done using a cronjob. Most hosting providers allow to set up some cron. There are...
View ArticleCallback functions
This page tries to explain the usage of callback functions. callbacks are php-functions used to filter and manipulate feed data. Each item in a feed is parsed by the callback function. In the feed...
View ArticlePerformance issues
Size matters, depending on your web server there are limitations on the amount of items you can have in your database or what size the productfeeds can be. How big really depends on the server.
View ArticleCreating a custom parser
The component does support the major formats of CSV files. Using the mapping in feed configuration any CSV file (with a header row) should work. Problem might be that the 'description' field has a...
View ArticleAdding webgains feeds
Preparation for webgains a username and password are required to download the feeds. It's best to add an extra user for this. Follow the link 'Manage Users' under 'Account' in the menu bar. Pick a nice...
View ArticleHow to fix encoding issues
Most productfeeds are UTF-8 encoded. Some, csv, feeds might be Windows-1252 or ISO-8859-1 encoded. Sometimes , csv or xml, file contains text that is double encoded. In all situations, the text...
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