I need help in creating a a live xml data feed

[CYoung]

Hiya all,
Can anyone help by advising me how to make a CSV and an xml data feed of all my products?Can I extract the information automatically off my site through the c-panel?
(to be honest I am not sure I know if I have put that right )
I need to do this for a search engine.
Thanks
Christine

 

[brendong]

Phpmyadmin (in the MySQL management area) will export to CSV


You may have problems though if you want a specific format. which may require a little bit of custom programming . (nothing drastic)

I don't recall if it does XML and the same applies if it does.


of course that is still a manual process and not automatic. (you have to export on changes)

cheers

brendon

 

[CYoung]

thankyou Brendon

Thank you for your Quick reply Brendon!
You mention that if I want it in a specific format (yeah comma delimited) which may require a little bit of custom programming . (nothing drastic), welllllllll Anything out of the ordinary is drastic for me .

when it comes to any type of programming I am a dummy! I will say however I AM learning.
Hey I'm an old dog- it takes longer to teach us new tricks!

Once again thanks for your reply.

 

[brendong]

Well a straight CSV file should be no big deal.

As long as all the details for the products are in the one table.

They will probably want the URL for the products as well.

Which search engine do you want to export all this for? one of the Aussie Shopping ones i assume?


(Aussie myself.. Toowoomba,QLD)

 

[CYoung]

100 k's south of Adelaide here.

yes Brendon,

I want it for the nine MSN shopping,getprice,webwombat,yourtv search engines.

I am about to embark on a major advertising campaign.

thanks
Christine
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