There are two items you need from Amazon. An AWS Key and an Associates ID.

The AWS key is what allows you to talk to AWS (Amazon Web Services) to get the data. The Associates ID is what tags your links, so you will get credit for them when somebody clicks them from your site and makes a purchase from Amazon.

To sign up for the AWS Key, go to https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws...ion/index.html.

To sign up for the Associates ID, go to http://associates.amazon.com.

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That's helpful and clear....

I've got one, so I'll go apply for the other now.... :)

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Badger

Edit: Got the Associateds ID, so now is there anything special (any place) with this mod I need to put it like I did with the AWS number, or is just automatic?

In the ACP VB options for this mod there is a box to enter your associates ID. If you do not see it, then re-download the zip file and import the product again, since the author updated it to add the associates ID. The mod does not add the associates ID to the URL at this time, and the author has indicated that he will fix this issue, so keep an eye on this thread, and when he fixes the issue you can reupload the files and import the product again at that point. He supplied a fix a couple posts back that was supposed to fix this, but it did not work for me - still waiting for the official fix from him.

Ok, B3 is posted now. This fixes the Associates ID issue with the links.

Re-upload the php files, then import the XML file making sure to check the "allow overwrite" option.

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Badger

Found it..... :up:

Updated to current B3 version....

Thanks ... :)

Only question I have is that I have two different associate ID's.... one for Amazon.com and one for Amazon.ca...

I entered for the mod the .COM one, so I wonder how that's going to sort itself out if someone orders from .CA? ;)

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Badger

Great job...

Mine is here - I added a search at the top and right now I am using the search term Movies. For some reason with Amazon it is difficult to add too many keywords. If you do you end up showing no products at all.

I really would like to incorporate more into this though such as a cache and a search. At the very least a conditional link to take people back to the main page of the store after they are done looking at a product...

It would be great to be able to get some of these products crawled and indexed and I don't think it will happen this way... All the same though, if you have a niche site and are looking to sell a specific category of products this will work well...

Thanks for your work...

I'm working on that.

I'll add that to the next release.

Looking at the pages Google has for my site (the one in the description of this mod), there are a whole bunch from the Amazon store... Also, I've got another site (non-vBulletin) that uses the same technology as this. I haven't completed the site yet, so the only thing that's publically available are links to items in the Amazon store. Google has almost 5000 pages indexes of nothing but Amazon products, displayed on my site. The pages are titled differently, though... the only thing I can tell you is to wait and see what happens when the spiders come crawling your site.

Thank you for using it!

I would think that your .COM ID would get credit for it, I don't think it matters what Amazon site a person orders from. But I'm not positive about that.

hello,
i installed this hack and i am getting this error ,

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: simplexml_load_file() in /home/xyz/public_html/Forums/amazon_store.php on line 55

Can u please help me
Thanks