Oodle external feeds

[bgordon +]

I know we are going off topic here... but where else do you guys recommend sending feeds to increase exposure? I send to oodle, vast.com, google base and feedburner...

What are your best bets? Where do you guys send to and get results either in increased traffic or simple page rank from inbound links? I don't think I can push ads to craigslist can I?

In any case, to send them to any of the above, I need to show the right currency field value... so no matter what I am kinda stuck here.

[petey]

Originally Posted by bgordon

Ok... I downloaded the file and made the changes to make it compatible with v4 but am a little lost on how to show 'extra' field (from their array) values in it?

For example I have an extra field where sellers specify the currency. I know it's id but am not sure how to call it for display in the loop. Right now there is a static field for currency with USD. I need to replace that with the actual extra field value from the listing.

BTW... for those of you who want the version 4 of this script, I will include it as an attachment. I made the changes to the tables etc that make it work with V4.

Hope someone can help me customize it a little bit more to meet my needs. I am sure that others will want to display some of their extra field values in the oodle feed too. Once I figure it out, I will post the new code for the community with the edits explained.

PS: For some reason (likely security) I was unable to upload the file as oodle.php. I renamed it to oodle.txt
You will need to save it as oodle.php in your root 68c directory and it should work for you.

Can anyone show me specifically what code I need to add or modify to show extras from ID4 for example?

This version doesn't include the tweak posted above by Eric (re PREFIX). I made that change and now the feed file is being created. I still need to add some fields like city etc. but it looks like that is covered in this thread.

PS bgordon I think you posted your file twice as I may have seen it in another thread re oodle. You might want to pull it down and link back to this thread so there's just the one updated file. Up to you. Thanks for the help.

[petey]

It seems that Oodle wants to download the resulting xml file daily.

So what's the command to run this feed script daily and output to a file? I guess it's a cron entry?

Thanks.

[petey]

Never mind I got it working with cron. Here's the command I have in the cron panel on my hosting, in case it helps anyone. I have it scheduled to run daily.

/usr/local/bin/php /home/mysite/public_html/oodle_external.php >/home/mysite/public_html/feed_output_file.xml

Cheers.