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There are a number of features that are included with Magento (I am currently using 1.5.1) but don’t work out of the box. As I am starting to learn, Magento is known for adding new bugs for every new release. One of those new bugs I believe was added to TheFind.

I got TheFind configured by following the great directions here. Then I published all of my products to TheFind but it wasn’t working cause I was getting an error about the product and image URLs. So I downloaded the feed from TheFind through FTP and I noticed the product URLs and image URLs are relative. There’s probably a better solution to this but I don’t have a lot of time so I came up with something as quick as I could.

So here is what you need to do:

1. Configure TheFind by following the steps here.

2. Change this line in /app/code/community/Find/Feed/Model/Import.php:

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foreach ($attributes as $key => $value) {
    $attributesRow[$key] = $product->getData($value);
}

To this:

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$image_count = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($product->getId())->getMediaGalleryImages()->count(); 
 
if($image_count == 0)
{
    continue;	
}
 
foreach ($attributes as $key => $value) {
    if($key == "Page_Url" || $key == "Image_Link" || $key == "Brand" || $key == "Condition")
    {
        switch($key)
        {
            case "Page_Url":
                $value = Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_WEB) . $product->getUrlPath();
                break;
            case "Image_Link":
                $value = $product->getImageUrl();
                break;
            case "Brand":
                $value = $product->getAttributeText('manufacturer');
                break;
            case "Condition":
                $value = $product->getAttributeText('condition');
                break;
        }
 
        $attributesRow[$key] = $value;
    }
    else
    {
        $attributesRow[$key] = $product->getData($value);
    }
}

You can also download the file here: Import.zip

You will notice that I am including manufacturer and condition, not because they are required, but because it’s always better to include as many attributes as possible to get better rankings (at least that is the way it is with Google). These attributes were appearing as IDs instead of their text versions. You may also notice that I am checking to see if an image exists since TheFind requires them and I was getting an error from products that don’t have images.

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