Miscellaneous Hacks - Dynamic Amazon Links

Description
This Hack will easily rewrite all amazon links whitin the posts to your associate id. You can add your amazon.de and amazon.com associate id, links to both amazon stores will be replaced with the right id, it works fine with multilanguage boards.

vBulletin
vB 3.6.x working
vB 3.5.x working

updating
just upload the functions_amazon_links.php from the zip and don't forget to insert your amazon ids.

Change Log
25/11/2007 v1.05
- support for [ url=xxx]yyy[ /url]
- replacement for tag=xxx and ref=xxx in non asin links
- small fix for /preview/ links

24/11/2007 v1.04
- [url]amazon-link[ /url] long amazon links will be shorten vb like

23/11/2007 v1.03
- [url] and [url="xxx"] will be repleaced

[projectego]

[high]* projectego clicks install [/high]

[weeno]

Another issue.

It seems that using this hack removes vbulletin's auto truncate feature in long urls.

For example:

Without the hack, long urls are shortened. Example:

h_ttp://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Offi...5878848&sr=8-1

Once you install the hack, the url ends up being very long, and not auto truncated.

h_ttp://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Office-2004-Student-Teacher/dp/B0001WN16M/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1195878848&sr= 8-1

[bada_bing]

Reserved

[felxi]

Originally Posted by weeno

Another issue.
It seems that using this hack removes vbulletin's auto truncate feature in long urls.

Hey weeno,
thanks for the report. the truncate feature is now added to the script.

In general the displayed link e.g. [url ] amazon-link [ /url] will get [url="new-amazon-link" ] amazon-link [ /url], so the displayed post-text isn't changed .

Greetz,
felxi

[djbaxter]

Wow!

I've tried a few of these before, both for vBulletin and WordPress. This is the first one that actually WORKS for me.

Well done!

I made a slight modification to the plug-in that might be useful to others...

In functions_amaxzon_links.php, find at lines 6-7:

	/*
	 * your partnernet ids
	 */
	$associate_id_de = 'xxxxxxxxx'; // or leave empty
	$associate_id_com = 'xxxxxxxxxxx'; // or leave empty

Since I don't have or need an amazon.de account but I do have another regional account, I changed this to:

	/*
	 * your partnernet ids
	 */
	$associate_id_de = ''; // or leave empty
	$associate_id_com = 'xxxxxxxxxxx'; // or leave empty 
	$associate_id_ca = 'xxxxxxxxxxx'; // or leave empty

Then find two instances of

amazon.(de|com)

at lines 17-18 and 42-43. Change to:

amazon.(ca|com)

For other regional Amazons, use the appropriate regional extension instead of "ca".

[weeno]

two more "issues"

1.

It breaks this link:
http://www.amazon.com/review/product...owViewpoints=1

since it has an ABIN number but is not meant to go to the product itself

2.

It doesn't handle [url=http://www.link.com]text[/url] (without quotes)

Regarding #1, in a related note, I might even prefer the urls all to be redirect urls via Amazon rather than any in the more abbreviated ABIN version... since that way the final url is as intended by the origanal poster, and your referal code is no longer embedded in the final destination url. But that might be a personal preference.

thanks
arn

[felxi]

hi weeno,
the issues are been solved. thank you for reporting.

regards,
felxi

[weeno]

Originally Posted by felxi

hi weeno,
the issues are been solved. thank you for reporting.

regards,
felxi

Thanks,

Do you forsee any problems if I modify it to use the redirect code on all links, even those with ABINs in them?

arn

[g00gl3r]

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[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by g00gl3r

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This is a serious question, not a flame: What is the purpose of a post like this? It seems to me it's more a non-post.