Comments on: Shopzilla WordPress Plugin (version 1.2)

By: Rich Owings

Rich Owings — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:59:18 +0000

Hi Yan,

Hey, the plugin is working great for me! Thank you very much!

I have a question about caching… If I install the wp-cache plugin, will it overide the Shopzilla cache settings?

By: Hiro

Hiro — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:24:04 +0000

Hi Yan,

Cool plugin just need some assistance.
I added the following code to test out the plugin

But I Get the following error message:
Error reading RSS data.

Any help is appreciated

By: Howard

Howard — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:49:02 +0000

I see your point. I have only tried a couple of searches with the title as the keyword. When you search for “Widget 1234 Review” it returns widget accessories, too. Maybe you could filter only the first item. I realize you would have to rewrite some code. I’m only vaguely familiar with PHP or I would try to play around with it. I did try some simple changes in the code, but it was returning RSS read errors.

I have not seen the Shopzilla widget you are speaking of that does this; I used the “Top Search Results” on the publisher site, copied the code and replaced a simple keyword search term with a blog title.

I was just trying to think of a way to automate this plug-in. Anything in this business that frees up time is a plus!

By: Yan

Yan — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:05:05 +0000

What you suggest would display not one but many products that satisfy the search criteria. Shopzilla already has a widget like that, and I am using it on one of my websites. Wrapping it around in a WP plugin is a different story. I will think about it. The problem I see is that Shopzilla search is not all that great to fetch products by blog post title. I would have to add some code to enable you to filter out non-essential keywords, otherwise the product results will not be relevant (if any)

By: Howard

Howard — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:27:00 +0000

Yan,

I have a suggestion for your plug-in. Instead of using “productID-some product number” in the link, use “keyword-some keyword.” Replace “some keyword” with the string of the blog title and let Shopzilla search return the relevant product.

This will make the plug-in automatic and save the time having to search for a particular product. Then, this would be the ultimate Shopzilla plug-in!

By: Yan

Yan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:34:28 +0000

It seems you have both installed. Try renaming phpinfo.php to phpinfo.php5 or edit your .htaccess file to set the right handler for files with PHP extension

By: Rich Owings

Rich Owings — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:32:13 +0000

That did it! Thank you so much for your help. I hope to try out the plugin later today.

By: Rich Owings

Rich Owings — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:18:38 +0000

You’re right. It shows PHP 4.4.9. I had assumed a later version, since on the left side of my CPanel page it shows 5.2.6. I’ll check with my host and see what the deal is.

By: Yan

Yan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:06:37 +0000

I still suspect PHP version older than 5. Create phpinfo.php file of the following content in your HTTP home folder:

< ?php
phpinfo();
?>

Open this URL in your browser: [Your Domain]/phpinfo.php and verify PHP version (it will be on the top of the page). More info here:

http://us.php.net/phpinfo

By: Rich Owings

Rich Owings — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:57:00 +0000

I updated WP to 2.6.2, but still get the same error.