[Resolved] sitemap error

[JanL]

I updated all my sites and I noticed that when I checked my google sitemaps, its showing the following error for all my cubecart sites

		Errors	Invalid date	An invalid date was found. Please fix the date or formatting before resubmitting.	1,882	Parent tag: url Tag: lastmod Value: -0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00	465	Dec 3, 2016
						Parent tag: url Tag: lastmod Value: -0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00	473	Dec 3, 2016
						Parent tag: url Tag: lastmod Value: -0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00	481	Dec 3, 2016

 

I cleared the cache in the admin and created a fresh sitemap and its still doing it. How can I fix this please? 

[Dirty Butter]

Welcome to the  forums, @JanL. I've checked my sitemap, and 6.1.1 does create a good timestamp, so it's not a bug. I don't know how to help you, but while you're waiting for someone who can help to be on the forum there are a couple of things you can do.

Is your sitemap providing actual correct url's? If so, you can use Find/Replace and temporarily change the timestamp in your sitemap to 2016-06-05T16:58:56-05:00 so you can at least get Google to crawl your sites.

If you haven't already, please create the error log and report any messages created when you try to make a sitemap. Please be sure you X out your admin security naming before posting here.

It might be helpful to know what you upgraded from and how you did the upgrade, eg. --- from within CC, via cPanel software, upload zipped file, extract, and run setup, OR extract and then upload files???

What is the url for your store?

Do you have a complete backup of your store files and your databases?

 

[bsmither]

Please make this edit:

In /classes/seo.class.php, near line 1017:

Find:
	private function _sitemap_link($input, $updated = false, $type = false) {

		$updated =  !$updated ? 'NOW' : $updated;

Change to:
	private function _sitemap_link($input, $updated = false, $type = false) {

		$updated =  (!$updated || "0000-00-00" == substr($updated,0,10)) ? 'NOW' : $updated;

Perhaps you have inventory where these particular items have never been updated. That is, the database table CubeCart_inventory, 'updated' column has 0000-00-00 00:00:00 for a value.

[JanL]

13 hours ago, bsmither said:

Please make this edit:

In /classes/seo.class.php, near line 1017:

Find:
	private function _sitemap_link($input, $updated = false, $type = false) {

		$updated =  !$updated ? 'NOW' : $updated;

Change to:
	private function _sitemap_link($input, $updated = false, $type = false) {

		$updated =  (!$updated || "0000-00-00" == substr($updated,0,10)) ? 'NOW' : $updated;

Perhaps you have inventory where these particular items have never been updated. That is, the database table CubeCart_inventory, 'updated' column has 0000-00-00 00:00:00 for a value.

 

That  code change did the trick. Thanks again Brian