We already have a working XML that we make available on a link for Google Merchant Center to use (for a webshop in gardening products). In short it looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0"><title>Companyname product data feed</title><link rel="self" href="http://igarden.nl"/><updated>2014-07-08 08:23:18</updated><author><name>Our companyname</name></author><id>tag:companyname.nl,2014-07-08</id><entry><id>1001</id><title>Productname</title><link href="http://companyname.nl/"/><g:price>123,10</g:price><description>omschrijving van het product</description><g:condition>new</g:condition><g:brand>acd</g:brand><g:mpn>12321</g:mpn><g:ean>21353532235</g:ean><g:image_link>http://companyname.nl/images/imagename.png</g:image_link><g:product_type>Huis & Tuin > category</g:product_type><g:availability>in stock</g:availability><g:shipping><g:country>NL</g:country><g:service>Standaard</g:service><g:price>6,50</g:price></g:shipping><g:manufacturer>acd2</g:manufacturer><g:weight>100g</g:weight><g:featured_product>0</g:featured_product><g:size>20x20x20</g:size></entry></feed>We're remaking the webshop, so I wanted to try to make it with DOMDocument, but I find it difficult. This is what I have so far in code:
/* create a dom document with encoding utf8 */$domtree = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');/* create the root element of the xml tree */$xmlRoot = $domtree->createElement("feed");$xmlRoot = $domtree->appendChild($xmlRoot);$addProduct = $domtree->createElement("entry");$addProduct = $xmlRoot->appendChild($addProduct);$addProduct->appendChild($domtree->createElement('id','100123'));$addProduct->appendChild($domtree->createElement('title','Blokhut'));$addProduct->appendChild($domtree->createElement('g:price','123,50'));$addProduct->appendChild($domtree->createElement('description','omschrijving van de blokhut'));$addProduct->appendChild($domtree->createElement('g:condition','new'));/* get the xml printed */header("Content-Type: text/plain");$domtree->formatOutput = true;echo $domtree->saveXML();Which outputs:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><entry><id>100123</id><title>Blokhut</title><g:price>123,50</g:price><description>omschrijving van de blokhut</description><g:condition>new</g:condition></entry></feed>So I got the basics working, but I have no clue how to make some elements working. How do I make these rows:
- Add this part to
<feed>:<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0"> <title>Compayname product data feed</title><link href="http://companyname.nl/"/>- The
<g:shipping>sub part
If I know how to make these, I think I can fill in the rest of the XML. I've tried so many things I found on here and by Googling, but I can't get them to work.