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]

reserved post

[Paul M]

This looks interesting.

[Digma]

Indeed, looks interesting. Will look into this later on when I've got some time.

[The Chief]

I like this, will install soon

[Tralala]

I love this concept and will install real soon now as well! I'd love to see a way to "Feature products" on the front page (Or perhaps have a category for "Featured products.") This way it's more than just a search engine/portal to Amazon... there'd be a forum-specific feature, and that is products discussed or recommended by our users.

Installing now...

[klaush]

One issue:

Developers may register here for a Subscription ID. Developer Tokens are no longer available. Subscription IDs may be used for Developer Tokens.

[GamerJunk.net]

Is there any way to use this without VBulletin?

[lebanon]

rastamasta , ofcourse and it comes with seo mode , but this is not the place to release it here.

[Vizionz]

love this hack would rather it be set up different go0t to look at it more but main concerns for me would be.

1 images of items would be editable so you could upload your own images instead of using amazons images and there white backgrounds.

2. table adjustments would like it to be more user friendly like shows a whats hot block and some better navigation.. dont like the looks of the main pag3e at your site/ works for you but for my site alot of that is not needed.

i would just want to categorise music movies and video games
i would like to be able to set it up to allow categories and genres (sub categories )
then allow you to add each individual item and edit the information.. and a comment system to allow board members to review comment on the products.

the buy links would already be generated so when you clicked ordr it would bring you to amazon for final order.

but all around very interesting hack and much needed.