Vbulletin Amazon Store

Vbulletin Amazon Store V0.9
An amazon reflection script , to be eligible to use this script you must obtain an associates id from amazon and a developer token from:
https://associates.amazon.com/exec/p...plication.html

DEMO : http://www.tchatting.com/forum/amazonindex.php
Requirements
Seperate DB ( This is REQUIRED )

his program has been initialy developed to work as a stand alone xml parser for amazon products feeds . Requirements are 1 mysql db, associates id and developer token.

I have tested links and everything sounds good, and planning to fully integrate seo mode laters on, please report any broken link i might have missed if you use this.

Features in a glance :
Amazon.com reflection - Checkout and help pages through a frame, ability to add or delete amazon categories from your admin control panel.
When adding a category not listed you will only need to visit amazon.com to findout its ID

Installation takes a few minutes but no complex stuff to do and no file edits at all.

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1 - You need to be an Amazon Associate to get paid commission for the items your visitors buy via your site. If you are already an associate Amazon allows you to use your current ID.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/?node=3435371
2 - A Developer's Token is required to access AWS. It functions much in the
same way as a password. You will pass it to Amazon's servers with every
request so that they know you have permission to access their system.
https://associates.amazon.com/exec/p...plication.html
3 - Upload all the files in the forum directory
4 - Create a mySQL database somewhere and import the .sql file to it.
5 - Edit /script/forumurl.php to your forum url path.
6 - Open script/config.php and change the values. Especially the last 4 lines:
$dbServer = "localhost";
$dbUser = "dbuser";
$dbPass = "dbpassword";
$dbName = "dbname";
You can change the rest from the admin panel of the site.
7 - Import the xml file to add your Vbulletin Templates.
9 - chmod the following files and and folders to 777:
- /script/config.php ( if you dont you will need to do all edits manualy)
- /script/cache
10 - Go into the admin panel, and click "site config"
/script/admin/
Your initial username and password is "admin" and "admin"



Templates (NOT THE VBULLETIN TEMPLATES)
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There is a template folder which contains several files that are used by the Amazon Store Manager to handle the site's output which you can edit to change the display of output but will not affect any of your vbulletin templates settings:
- welcomemsg.tpl
- browsepagefooter.tpl
- browsepagetitle.tpl
- catpage.tpl
- default.tpl
- footer.tpl
- header.tpl
- menu.tpl
- productpage.tpl
- productpageauthors.tpl
- productpagefeatures.tpl
- productpagefooter.tpl
- productpageheader.tpl
- productpagesimiliar.tpl
- search_result_title.tpl
- similiar.tpl
- similiarfooter.tpl
- similiarheader.tpl
- single_search_result.tpl
- browsepage.tpl

Template tags are recognized by their used of %% and %%. For example, to print the name of
the site, we would go:
%%sitename%%
When editing the templates, please don't touch these tags if you can help it.

SEO Compatible ?
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seo setting are not active yet, although the script do work fully with seo mode outside vbulletin which hopefully in the next release i will fully enable the seo mode within vb after it passes this beta stage.

Enjoy.

[lebanon]

bitg, thank you for your note, i have read ur post, the store i provided was not originaly writen for vb, yet i have tried to implement as much of it into vb, i didnt have time to add the admincp features and so on, thus i used the originaly created panel ( which ofcourse can be implemented if i just had time for it as well), maybe later i could go on update more of this script but to be honest i didnt find much pple interested in this portion of the hack thats why i didnt give it more of my time.
blitzburgh , all templates are in the templates folder in /script/ ( .tpl )you can re-arrange or change the whole look or output as you like from there using any editor like frontpage or macromedia. Regards

[Holidazed]

Lebanon, thank you for your response. I was really interested in the addon the way I wrote it. I only posted in here about it because yours also added Amazon to vBB in the hopes you might be interested in doing my hack. I think it is an awesome idea, but that does not make people want to write it.

Oh Well...

[chet]

Followed your step by step but I do no have "site config" in the admin panel, which part did I do wrong?

Chet

[chet]

No worries, sorted

Chet

[blitzburgh]

Ok, I got a question. I finally got the amazon store to finally work, but only when you hit go on search or search for something. If you hit the category links, nothing comes up. Is there something I may have messed up, or have not done, and is there a way you could search all categories when you do a search? It works great until I change from the Tchatting Store and change the info to my store then certain things like the categories do not work, but if you hit go on the search it does. I just get this when I click any category:

http://www.clicklow.com/amazonindex.php?cat=10

Sorry, no results were found.


Thanks!
Any suggestions?

[capebretoner]

Nice looking Hack, will add it to the site in the near future

[dai-kun]

Nothing is showing up in my store...
Nvm.. got it working now

[RichieBoy67]

Great Mod... I believe I have it working perfectly but I am having more of a style issue.... It is a ccs problem really..

Look at my page first

http://www.talkandmore.net/amazonindex.php

The menu on the left side... I have tried changing the font which I can do but it changes all the font on the body.. I have no idea how or where the setting is to chane the color of the box itself...

If it is in the ccs just tell me where if you can... Otherwise I would be happy to edit this manually if you could point me in the right direction...

I have edited these store many times but I have never done an integration..... I have not really gone through this much yet so any help would be great...

My next question is how hard would it be to integrate the other version of this script? The version that does not use a database?? That is the version I am running in most of my store www.anonlinemall.com www.dvdsandtapes.com -- I used to run this script but the other version is so much better... I would be happy to help if you have plan to do that??


Thanks

Great idea by the way!!!

[MikeWarner]

Could this work for the UK version of the store - i.e amazon.co.uk?

[blitzburgh]

Richie, I believe you can change that in the templates folder, though not sure about the background but you can change the font color, that was the same problem I had but I removed the sidebar totally because I did not like it. I am hoping to eventually getting it to work the right way on my site, I just have not had time to get back to it and trying to figure it out.