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.

[rareclownfish]

Demo not working for me

[bbcentral]

I did a search on google for 'amazonindex.php' and found these:
http://www.talkandmore.net/amazonindex.php
http://www.debatepolitics.com/amazonindex.php

If only someone had managed to create a design that worked with this mod instead of against it :P
Personally I'd just put each section in a white box, or at least use CSS to draw a darker border around each item. It's not that hard :P

[RichieBoy67]

Wow..... My store is already indexed...

[karthik123]

thank you very much bbcentral..tht shurely helps a lot..

[ryancooper]

for those of you who have this installed how aer your comissions? Have you seen a increase?

[John Diver]

Just wanted to ask about something that has already been mentioned, are we able to show specific categories only?

I want to show poker items only for my store.

Thanks a lot
John

[John Diver]

Anyone know?

Thanks

[lebanon]

John, yes you can specify categories which you want to show
navigate to your forumurl/script/admin/
login , (defaults are admin.admin)
Then navigate to cats and add or remove categories you want to be shown or disabled.
ALso if there is a category you want to see and not there in my default list, then go to amazon and get its ID and add it there.
See the examples in the script/admin and think you will figure out the rest.
As for design wise, its all in the form of tpl which you can edit using any editot such as frontpage and choose your own design of output for all sections , simply dont touch the %%variables%% or move them into a different table to output them inside of that table.
Regards

[lebanon]

Originally Posted by ciscoguy

Nice addon for VB, however I am concerned with a possible security flaw. I was comparing my new install to yours to help me work on a few bugs and I came across this.

Well, that was because i was too lazy to upgrade my vb3.5.0 not because of this and many pages were defaced ,obviously i didnt catch all defaced pages and left few that still appeared, its unusual as after defacing i used search of modified files by that day and checked each manualy, but seems i left few:!

[menoutdoors]

Originally Posted by 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?

First I would like to say thank you for the hack.

Unfortunately I am also having the same problem. If you go to any of the categories in my store they all appear empty. However, if you use the search box and search for pretty much anything the products will all show up.

Anyone have any ideas on what I need to do to get this working?

Thanks
-Chris