Posted 3 years ago #
I am trying to integrate Mr. Rat's Amazon Product feed (http://www.mrrat.com/scripts.html) into a PAGE. I cannot find the page on the server to edit it. Two questions: first, where is the PAGE located and second, has anyone else gotten this to work?
Thanks in advance.
MTG
Posted 3 years ago #
Given that WP already has good Amazon integration via plugins like CG-Amazon, I can't say I've heard of mrrat's scripts being used. If there's something lacking in CG-Amazon that you critically need, I'm always happy to add features to folks who donate. :)
Pages are written using the Write panel (Posts, then Pages). Pages are just Posts that are 'classified' differently in the system. Generally anything you can do in a post you can do in a page. Additionally, a page can be mapped to a custom PHP template file for just that page's display.
CG-Amazon (with the help of CG-Inline and/or CG-QuickPHP) can be used to embed a given ASIN (or a dynamic query) within sidebar, post, or page, and caches results locally for performance -- this means you could do a given lookup/query on say 10 items (or a keyword, whatever), and ask for a random selection of 3 to be displayed, and CG-Amazon will cache the original 10 on the first call, and then locally return a random 3 each subsequent call (until the cache timeout comes along...).
Styling control admittedly needs to be reworked a bit (on my list), but otherwise CG-Amazon gives a TON of power.
CG-Amazon combined with a custom template can actually give you an 'almost-store', as my complete custom (WP-not-needed) sample in the CG-PowerPack shows how to iterate through your local database of ASIN items and display them in a list, and display them individually.
Check out http://www.chait.net/cgaindex.php as an example of a listing, or many of my reviews which generally have an embedded 'live' amazon callout in them.
Let me know if you'd like to try it out.
-d
Posted 3 years ago #
I haven't heard of CG-Amazon. I had decided to use this feed utility that a friend showed me. I have it partially integrated here: http://conservativebooktalk.com/store/amazon_products_feed.cgi
What are the differences between your CG-Amazon and this one? At the moment, I need to figure out how to write an index.html page that will call my cgi script for ease of use. (I don't know anything about .htacess)
Let me know your opinion on this stuff. I am a definite newbie with this stuff.
Thank you.
Posted 3 years ago #
I can't see what that does.
CG-Amazon was designed to make it fairly easy to do a few things:
1. maintain your own custom database of Amazon items, including single custom-category per item tagging.
2. display sidebar lists of ordered or random items pulled from your database, possibly filtered by a custom category (i.e., "Reading Now" lists).
3. embed amazon links into posts/pages primarily using CG-Inline:
<!--amazon:SOMEASIN-->
Yes, that's all you need to start. ;)
4. More complex functionality, such as keyword-based lookups, Amazon Wishlist lookups, product w/comments listings (see cgaindex example above), etc.
But, it's all meant to be 'staged'. You use what you need, and the rest of the power is there when you want it.
I built it for my site, but have tried to make it usable by others. ;)
If you have deeper questions, feel free to drop me a line at cgcode at chait dot net, or post away here. ;)
-d
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