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Yo! I installed the plugin. Its awesome but it would be cool if there was some sort of option for a div box with with the image and then the meta for it… author book name or cd.. etc.
It would have been more honest of you to have disclosed the fact that you’re adding your own Amazon referrer ID to each link. It’s a cool plugin, but you are not the one referring people to the books — the person submiting the link is.
For those wishing to change the referrer link to their own, edit the ‘AmazonSearch.php’ file and change the “TAG” from ‘manalangcom-20′ to your referrer tag.
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Looks like a lot of fun this plugin, and very easy to install. Only I get the following error after performing a search. It happens everytime. Any ideas?
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-amazon/nusoap.php on line 5489
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: keywordsearchrequest() in /var/www/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-amazon/AmazonSearch.php on line 98
Amazon Plugin
In the quest to add more geeky stuff to my already very geeky life, I’ve added a new plugin to my WordPress install. It’s called WP-Amazon and it adds a good looking interface to your write menu that lets you insert pictures of products right into th…
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Looks fantastic! Are you planning to add support from other countries? (CAnada) for me!
Is there something we can do to help out with this kind of “localization”?
Hey there, I wrote a similar plugin ages ago for WP, it stored the media in a database table to allow used to select what to display and whatnot… It’d be cool to see the in-site search from yours worked into a databasey-type side-bar lister thing like mine. If you’re interested in having a look into it drop me a line, I’m short on time but could give you all the code if you think it’d be useful?
Regards,
Denyerec
Craig, unfortunately, Amazon Web Services currently supports US, UK, Germany, and Japan. I noticed that they do have Canada lined up for their future release and once that’s available, you can count on me adding Canada to this plugin.
My goal for WP-Amazon was to keep it simple, no database tables, complicated web services configurations, or template modifications. Most of the time, people are just posting a link to a book or a CD they want to write about — and this plugin targets those writers. It’s still possible to create a “reading list” or “currently listening to” list using this plugin without making the functionality complicated. I didn’t feel there was a need to cache the data from Amazon since most of the time the writer will only need to access it once. Also, I decided not to include items like price for a product because data like that could change. The point of this plugin is to make it easier to include products that can be purchased from Amazon into an entry (with or without an Amazon Associates ID).
Anyway, let me know what you had in mind… maybe it’s a different plugin.
Great plug-in, I initially had problems on my test machine, but it works fine on the live server. I was getting identical errors to David above.
What version of PHP does it require as my test machine runs 4.4.2 and my live runs 4.3.5, or are there any specific modules/plug-ins/settings that are required to make it run?
Lee, I’ve tested on PHP 4.3.3/7 on linux and windows. No additional modules/plugins are necessary. David’s on a PHP 4.3.3 debian server. We haven’t figured out his problem yet, he’s going to give me access to diagnose the problem. But so far, David’s the only one who’s reported a problem (and you with your test machine).
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You forgot to add php to (less than sign)? to AmazonSearch.php so on my default installation of PHP it didn’t work. Changing the first line to (less than sign)?php of course worked.
First, great plugin. Second…I’m having an error with it.
When I have the plugin activated, I get a Runtime Script error in IE. It happens on nearly every page, and the line number changes. I did select to debug it, and this is the line with the error:
Hi, I believe I’ve found a small bug… if you haven’t found this already. Whenever I select something with an apostrophe in it’s title, I get a Runtime Error on line 114: Error: Expected ‘)’ soo, I am guess that when there’s an apostrophe it just needs a slash or whatever to make it safe to read by php.
Jeremy S., as I said before, Amazon’s Web Services program still does not support Canada. Their current Web Services program only supports US, UK, Japan, and Germany. They have said that they will support Canada in the future release of their Web Services program, but no date has been set — at least that I know of. Read more here:
I’m getting the same error as the others:
arning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/blacknight/mneylon.com/web/blog/wp-admin/wp-amazon/nusoap.php on line 5489
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: keywordsearchrequest() in /home/blacknight/mneylon.com/web/blog/wp-admin/wp-amazon/AmazonSearch.php on line 98
I had a poke around in the code. The nusoap.php file makes explicit reference to a number of files that ship with the package that are not included in the plugin distribution. I added them, but it didn’t make any difference. I also tried installing the nusoap package globally, but it still doesn’t work.
Any ideas?
Michele, I haven’t figured out that issue… but as an alternative, I will be rewriting WP-Amazon to use the standard XML interface Amazon provides instead of SOAP. I’ve read of others experiencing the same problems with Amazon while using NuSOAP. Just out of curiousity, what version of PHP are you running and on what OS/version?
Plugin looks grea and I think I’m close to getting it going.
I get the same error as others have :
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/chroot/home/content/d/a/v/davcam/html/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-amazon/nusoap.php on line 5489
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: keywordsearchrequest() in /var/chroot/home/content/d/a/v/davcam/html/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-amazon/AmazonSearch.php on line 98
All relevant files chmod’d to 777 for testing
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
This plugin was working just fine for me until I upgraded to a nightly snapshot for WP 1.3-alpha-2. It doesn’t seem to work now. I keep getting the “invalid argument” and “undefined function” errors mentioned above, and the insert from Amazon link shows up at the very bottom of the page.
I was very excited to find this plug-in, but I keep getting errors. The files *are* installed where they belong, I am not sure what to do to fix this!
Warning: main(nusoap.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/quaysoco/public_html/bookshelf/wp-admin/wp-amazon/AmazonSearch.php on line 19
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘nusoap.php’ (include_path=”) in /home/quaysoco/public_html/bookshelf/wp-admin/wp-amazon/AmazonSearch.php on line 19
I just want to give you a quick yet hearful THANK YOU for your kickass plugin. I have been trying to add these Amazon links to my site for the last two hours and the Amazon-provided HTML plain sucks. Five minutes after I decided to start writing a plugin from scratch (which would have used nusoap, just like yours) I decided to google one more last time, and Jesus, there it was!
BTW, all the problems I had with it (all 10 minutes worth) was because I was too lazy to transfer the files intact and I tried to paste their contents into PICO, one by one. I transferred the files one more time and bingo! Everything works
Rich, I just want to let you know I really enjoy this plugin and have been using it for a while now. I added a blended search to search all categories, as well as keeping the category specific search. If you are interested, shoot me an email and I’ll send you the changes. Thanks again.
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I think I just found the fix to the error I described above that a number of people have seen:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/chroot/home/content/d/a/v/davcam/html/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-amazon/nusoap.php on line 5489
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: keywordsearchrequest() in /var/chroot/home/content/d/a/v/davcam/html/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-amazon/AmazonSearch.php on line 98
In wp-amazon.php
I changed the $Token from this:
/* Set Amazon developer token */
$Token = ‘D2B1IIRG931JN5′;
to this:
$Token = ”;
(duh,Dave) - Now it works.
Thanks all
Dave
A WordPress Amazon Plugin Endorsed
Ever wondered why Amazon expects affiliates to track down ASIN numbers before manually contriving their own text or image links? Thankfully, the WP-Amazon plugin for WordPress consigns that cumbersome process to users of inferior publishing platforms!…
Just started testing WordPress, and this was one of the first plugins I found. Works nicely, and much less effort than what I had to do with MT. One feature I’d like to see is the ability to pick from multiple Amazon sources (I’d like to be able to link to UK and US. Would it be feasible to pick the source in the input box rather than setting it in the config file? Or is that (a) too messy or (b) not of use to enough people to be useful?
[Sorry for this spam-ish comment on this entry: I looked for an email address to send you this, but couldn't find one... feel free to erase this comment afterward.]
I just released version 1.0 of what should soon enough become the somewhat official WP Plugin repository (currently figuring the domain name and how it will be presented from the main site).
The page is already flooded by users, but unfortunately still rather low on registered plugins (well, considering there are thousands of WP plugins floating around on the net).
So I have been making a round-up of everybody’s favorite plugins and I am currently working on getting these in, so as to get the DB off to a good start.
Ideally, it would be awesome if you could register it yourself, as it would both make life easier for me and give you greater control on how your plugin is presented (and easy access to admin options, for example if you want to notify users of an upgrade)… It is a really painless and quick process, probably less than 3 minutes (maybe 5, if you want to make it one-click installable): http://www.unknowngenius.com/wp-plugins/faq.html#dev
However, if you do not feel like taking the time to do that, I would actually like to go ahead and add it myself… Of course you’ll be free to regain control of its entry in the DB at any moment (simply would have to create an account and contact me to transfer its ownership), so that users can still have access to it in the meantime. Before doing that, though, I first wanted to know if it was alright with you (and incidentally if you’d do it yourself)…
Sorry for the length and please do not hesitate to contact me directly if you got any question/suggestion/comment…
Nifty. Just one thing, though. When searching on amazon.co.uk, the generated link code has “View product details at Amazon.com” for the title. Might be a bit confusing for visitors. Easy enough to edit it in the post, so not a major problem.
Awesome plug-in — if I could get it to work. Every search I do a) takes forever and b) comes back with no results despite the fact that clearly there are results (search for Porter Cable in tools section returns nothing).
I just started trying to use ECS for the first time yesterday, and have also tried implementing the scripts provided at php9 (unrelated to wordpress), and those are not working either (same problem - takes FOREVER, comes back with zero results). Other php scripts I have all work fine.
At first I thought Amazon ECS must be having problems, but there aren’t any posts to that effect on the Amazon web services discussion board, so it seems the problem is somehow on my end.
I followed the steps to a tee. What might I be doing wrong, or what could possibly need changing in my server configuration to get this to work? I’m SOOOOOOOO excited to use it - it looks to be an amazing plugin - thanks so much for your hard work in creating in. Wish I could get it to work
I fixed the typo in my email address — thanks for trying to contact me - greatly appreciated!
I’m not getting back any error messages. Rather, when I click the link to insert content from amazon, the page pops open as expected asking which stores in amazon to search, etc. No matter what category I pick or what I search for, the status bar says it is loading the page while it processes the request (we’re talking a LOOOOOOOOOONG time), and when it finally returns the results, it says no products found. No matter which product category I select or what I search for. I tried searching amazon.com in Tools for Porter-Cable, came back with nothing. Same when I searched the entire store for elmo. After the huge wait, it comes back with “Results for: [elmo (0 matches)]”
Any help you can provide would be incredibly appreciated!
I keep trying to post the info here, but it keeps giving me error messages whenever I click Say it related to kittens spaminator.. Could not find your email address to contact you directly, but mine is blogging AT emilyrobbins DOT com
sorry bout the typo in initial email
much much thanks for any help you can provide. Even if I search the entire store for elmo it comes back with zero results (and takes AGES to tell me that)
West Wing - The Complete Third Season
I’m testing a new Amazon.com plug-in I downloaded for WordPress. So, to the left you should see an image of The West Wing - The Complete Third Season, a DVD collection I want to get. After finishing the first two seasons on DVD, and watching a few epi…
I added that code after line 504 in wp-amazon.php and reuploaded, but now when I click the Insert content from Amazon link, it pops open a blank window, without even giving me the option to run a search (no drop down boxes, etc - blank page)
Thanks so much for your assistance in getting this working!!!!!!
The new version worked first time for me. Well done!
One thing I notices, you now have a dropdown menu for searches. It would be an interesting option to be able to specify multiple affiliate IDs so you could post from Amazon.com if the item wasn’t available on co.uk, for example.
Just a crazy thought
I got your email, but hadn’t had a chance to respond just yet — my boyfriend surprised me by popping the question, so I’ve been busy celebrating our engagement
I’m going to hold off on emailing the code to you at this juncture b/c I think the problem may be with my server. I tried to install Calin’s amazon scripts from http://www.php9.com, and they didn’t work either. I posted my error msgs to him, and he was said there were a whole bunch of issues wih my server setup (all of which was over my head) and I have the support team at my hosting company investigating the issue. I’m assuming whatever will fix that script will fix yours (hoping, praying), and will let you know either way as soon as I have an update.
Thanks so much for trying to help! And again, for writing this script and making it freely available to the Wordpress community.
for 1.3a4
wp-amazon.php needs require_once(’admin.php’); line.
and for japanese support
you need to use htmlspecialchars for htmlentities.
because htmlentities make mojibake.
thanks
What a brilliant plugin, it’s so simple to use. However there is a “but” (sorry! I’m using to set up a bookblog and I would like to have a link to the book on the UK site with my associate-id, which I can do, and I would also like to post a link to the book on the US site with my US associate ID, which I can’t. Is there a way to do this?
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The only problem I’m having is the “language support”. When using the plugin on amazon.de the German special characters like ä are not displayed correctly although the charset is defined correctly.
Is there any fix for that?
Great plugin. One Question: I added my AMAZON ASSOCIATES ID and AWS subscription ID and everything works…but clicks on links don’t show up in my AMAZON Associates report. Any ideas?
I just downloaded your plugin and put it up in the correct folders on my site.When I put the code in that it gave me for the two books I requested, I wound up with linked code as output on this post. Here is the code for that post:
...at killing in the name of God and reaping the rewards of such, try at least 3 more times. Such is the case with the Crusades, of which Joan Acocella's brief book review, Holy Smoke:What were the Crusades really about?, is truly the extent of my knowledge on the subject. The books seem fascinating, though, and since I will have approximately 5 weeks of free time in about 6 hours (hopefully), I might have a chance to read these books:
and
Of course, my inability to ignore all things online (the major reason why I am currently awake and trying to finish my semester that could have been done at least a week ago) might also keep me from doing anything constructive offline over break as well. I’ll just have to maximize my online constructiveness…
Someone on the WP support forums said my img tag isn’t fully formed. What is going here? I am viewing it through Firefox on a Powerbook running Mac OSX, but I can’t imagine any of that has any bearing. Please email if you can. Thanks.
I installed your plugins.
But when I click
the Insert content from Amazon, I encountered this error message..
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare makexmltree() (previously declared in /home/lse12/public_html/home/wp/wp-admin/wp-amazon.php:78) in /home/lse12/public_html/home/wp/wp-content/plugins/flickr-gallery.php on line 438
Hi JB. I have no idea why your clicks aren’t registering. You may want to email the Amazon ECS people. I don’t manipulate the URL at all. I use the URL (and other data) that Amazon returns from the search verbatim. You might want to take the two URLs you posted above and ask them why the URLs are different (I suspect they use different URLs to track how people are using ECS). Anyway, again, go to Amazon’s ECS site and create an issue or submit something in the forum.
Awesome Plugin. Any chance of you adding the capability of adding the link to the Add Link section rather than just posts. So if I have a category called “Good Books” I would want to insert the link there directly. For now, I can take the generated HTML link and stick it there but would be cool!
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Hi, I’ve been using your great plugin on my blog as well as a couple of others that I host and manage for folks in our church.
On one of those - http://www.byron-harvey.com - for some reason the links only seem to be good for a day or two, then for whatever reason, clicking on the image just takes you to a general Amazon page. I’ve checked it several times, and, for example, the latest book I checked on, has had 3 different links this week to actually go to the correct page.
Now we are using them as a cut and paste into the sidebar template, does that have any effect on it? Of the 7 books currently in the mentioned sidebar, only 3 (as of this writing) actually are going to the correct page; 4 days ago all 7 went to the correct page.
Just wondering if you have encountered this before and if there is any sort of work around to keep the links somehow current?
Thanks for any help at all, this has got me baffled (and a little frustrated w/ Amazon.)
I’ve followed the installation instructions and everything is fine until I try to search for a product. No matter what I type, the search returns zero results.
Hi, I’m trying to hack your plugin a little for plog and the new canadian webservices. I’m having a problem with duplicate results showing up, hoping you will contact me and perhaps give me a heads up to what I’m doing wrong.
Just wondering about the dependence on allow_url_fopen. I’ve read that this is a huge security hole, and was wondering whether it’s being replaced with curl…
Hi John. I’m not aware/familiar with any security issues with fopen. Do you mind pointing me to any security advisories you might have seen? I took a look at using curl, but it looks like the php needs to be compiled with curl enabled… and I’m not sure how many hosts have curl turned on. If you know more about this, please share it with me. If it’s truly an issue, I’ll go ahead and make some changes to WP-Amazon. Thanks!
Hello Mr. Manalang, I used your wp-amazon on WP 1.3 alpha with no problems, and was very happy to find you had updated it to work with wp1.5. I downloaded the new php file from the WP Plugin Directory and uploaded it to my plugins-directory via FTP, but when I go to the page where you manage the plugins in wordpress, for some reason the page doesn’t show up, so I can’t enable it or anything. Has that happened before and do you have a solution? Thanks for your efforts in any case, I was glad to use the plugin as long as I could ;D.
Clarification: I don’t mean the managing page doesn’t show, but I don’t get the option to activate your plugin! And it had the correct size and all, I checked.
Update: please disregard the last two posts. I am an idiot and didn’t remember that wp-amazon goes into the admin subdirectory. Here’s the link to the WP Plugin directory for all those people asking for an update though: http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-amazon/
Estara thanks for pointing to that updated version. Since the one that you can DL from here only offers the older version of the file that goes in the “wp-admin” folder. Good stuff…now it works again!
I added your plugin. When I click on the “Insert content from Amazon” link I get a blank page popup. I’ve tried it in both IE and Firefox and get the same results. Do I need to change some permissions on the folders that the files are in? Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.
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Hi Jack, Jason, and Chris. I made a change in WP-Amazon recently that requires the use
of curl instead of fopen for retreiving http content (due to security
concerns). Looks like I need to check that curl is installed on your
host before trying to use it.
Could I ask you guys for a favor? I just made the change to test if
curl exists. Could you guys test this and let me know if it works? I
have no way to test it with my host. I’ve emailed you the
wp-amazon.php file. All you have to do is drop in your plugins
directory.
I had my host install curl and it works perfectly now. If anyone is having a problem, you simply need to have your host provider install curl and you should be fine.
I am having a problem similar to others in that after I install the plugin and do a search I get zero results. I checked and I have curl 7.9.8, that came bundled with RedHat 9, installed. Do I need a more updated version?
Hi Bob. I’ve posted a new version of WP-Amazon that checks if curl is supported in your PHP install first and if it doesn’t it will revert to using fopen. Give it a try and let me know if it works.
Hey there! Thanks for this loverly plugin! This will help me so much! Question tho, my site will tend to talk about products from america and japan, and i have associates IDs in both places. As I’m very unskillful when it comes to php, is there a way to list both IDs and have the plugin know which to use depending on whether amazon.com is selected or amazon.co.jp is selected? Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks for taking your time to create this! ^_^
Hi there. Just insalled WordPress 1.5 and was really eager to give this great amazon plugin a shot. However, Im still getting curl problems:
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Warning: curl_init() has been disabled for security reasons in /var/www/l3s1658/html/log/wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon.php on line 101
Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /var/www/l3s1658/html/log/wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon.php on line 102
Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /var/www/l3s1658/html/log/wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon.php on line 103
Warning: curl_exec(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /var/www/l3s1658/html/log/wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon.php on line 104
Warning: curl_close(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /var/www/l3s1658/html/log/wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon.php on line 105
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Any Idea? Thanks a lot in advance, really really appreciate this great piece of work!
I installed and activated your plugin on my local box (a Win98 system, connected to the Internet via dialup ), but I when I try to search Amazon, the search page returns no results. I tested with Harry Potter as the keywords and against all the different services (US, UK, etc). Do I need to change some setting?
I should check my gmail account more often. I bumped up the file you sent along… but still get the same error. Haven’t been able to get in touch with my host about installing curl.
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Mr Manalang,
I have been using the plugin for some time, and recently upgraded to WP 1.5. I am using 1.2.5 which looks to be dated 11 April 2005. Anyhow, the web page seems to be fine, but on all the admin pages I have the following error messages on the top header area:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at //wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon-plugin.php:83) in /l/wp-admin/admin.php on line 6. This message is repeated 3 more times, each time the line number grows on up to line 9. If I deactivate the plugin, things go back to normal. Any ideas?
Meanwhile, thanks for the great plugin.
Hi, Thanks for a great plugin. We are going to do reviews of plasma screens and TVs and wanted to link to Amazon for each one. It all works fine except for when we click ’save’ the post hangs. When we check the post later it’s all ok - just wondered if you knew what the prob was?
Also wondered how tricky it would be to add this to pages as well as posts?
Hi - sorry to post again - new to all this stuff, I managed to do a duplicate of the plugin for pages in 1.5. Just changed the name and bit of the code. Still wondered about the post hanging when saving though…. any thoughts?
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I’ve just signed up for Amazon Affilates, got the code, and can fill it in alright, but I am stuck on where to find the Set Amazon Web Services subscription id — where do I get this ID from?
When I put uploaded the code, etc - it keeps complaining that it can’t find the wp-config file whilst it is on the admin-header.php
Exact error is below;
Warning: main(../wp-config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in EXAMPLE_SITE_PATH/wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 2
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘../wp-config.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/include/php’) in EXAMPLE_SITE_PATH/web/wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 2
Please note EXAMPLE_SITE_PATH replaces my actual site root path.
There is an issue with the paths derived by this plug-in. How do I fix this?
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hi just wanna ask… is it possible to put frames around individual products?
cuz even though i put it all as “small image” but they come out as different sizes
so by putting the border around it… makes it look equally sized.
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Thank you thank you thank you… this plugin does -exactly- what I wanted, works fantastically well, and I am so, sooooo happy to have it. What a relief not having to deal with building these links by hand! It’s like having a secret backdoor pass into amazon. Woohaw! :)))
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Hi! Please consider to include the following “fix” to the next release, it allows to show the plug-in also in pages: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/32412 Cheers!
I can’t seem to get this plugin to work under 1.5.1.2. The current listed download resulted in a functional plugin, but any searches performed in the popup window resulted in zero returns. Ex- Searching for “Stephen King” under “books” or “any” would result in “0″ returns. I then tried the fix suggested here: developer fix, but this results in several errors opening wp-config. Any suggestions?
Additional information: I reverted back to the packaged download on this site and I have the plugin “working” again, however, it is still returning zero items for all searches. Could this be a problem with my amazon ID or token? I’m not sure how to check those.
I’ve tried every variation now of this plugin, using both my own amazon ID/token and the ID/token included with the install. In all variations, this plugin returns ZERO items, no matter what the search subject.
JB - you aren’t alone. I’m having similar difficulty using the plugin on WP 1.5.1.2. The plug-in appears to work, but the search always returns 0 results, regardless of what you look for.
As suggested, I tried the latest version. This one indeed does not come up with the admin top panel when clicking the search from amazon link, however immediately after a search, the admin panel returns and hangs until a zero result is again displayed.
allow_url_fopen appears to be enabled on my server, I’m still checking on cURL.
Hey, maybe I missing this in the ReadMe file, but it says above that your plug in supports amazon associates. But how do you get your amazon associates ID into the html generated by an amazon link?
UPDATE: OK, I looked closer in the readme file & found it (a little hard to find, you might want to consider adding a line about this to your description above. It would’ve made it a whole lot easier for me to figure out.
Another ?, what’s amazon subscription services? Never heard of that service.
Hi, I installed your plugin and everything appears to work, except I don’t get redirect to my blog after I hit the submit button. It just stays on the Write page and keeps loading, as if it hasn’t finish submitting, but the post is acutally recorded.
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1. If you had used the older versions of this plugin, make sure you follow the README because the current version has both files in the same folder, while the older versions like the one I had used two separate folders.
I am running WP 1.5.1.2 and just added this plugin alas when I do a search (Amazon US - Jewelry- Paris Hilton [for example]) the progress bar gets to about 2/3’s and then just hangs. I resubmitted my AWS info and was assigned a new ID but alas still the samer thing.
June 23rd, 2004 at 11:15 PM PDT
Yo! I installed the plugin. Its awesome but it would be cool if there was some sort of option for a div box with with the image and then the meta for it… author book name or cd.. etc.
Otherwise awesome plugin.
June 24th, 2004 at 6:01 AM PDT
I haven’t installed your wp-amazon plugin yet, but it’s a cool feature to have.
June 24th, 2004 at 12:49 PM PDT
It would have been more honest of you to have disclosed the fact that you’re adding your own Amazon referrer ID to each link. It’s a cool plugin, but you are not the one referring people to the books — the person submiting the link is.
For those wishing to change the referrer link to their own, edit the ‘AmazonSearch.php’ file and change the “TAG” from ‘manalangcom-20′ to your referrer tag.
June 24th, 2004 at 12:51 PM PDT
Oh, and also the “$Tag” line in wp-amazon.php.
June 24th, 2004 at 1:35 PM PDT
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June 24th, 2004 at 2:15 PM PDT
Gudlyf, I wasn’t trying to be dishonest… IT IS documented in the README.txt and in the wp-amazon.php file.
June 24th, 2004 at 6:18 PM PDT
Amazon in WordPress!!
Want to link to a book, movie or some music album from your WP powered blog, maybe in context to the post you’re making & found it difficult?A new plugin for WordPress 1.2 by name of WP-Amazon lets you insert links to any product at Amazon along…
June 25th, 2004 at 1:21 AM PDT
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June 25th, 2004 at 10:20 AM PDT
THANK YOU!
This is exactly what I have been looking for! =)
June 25th, 2004 at 11:04 AM PDT
Morressey: “You Are The Quarry”, Cool WordPress Plug-in
I have finished listening to Morrissey’s new “You are the Quarry” and I have to say that I am impressed! I have always been a fan of The Smiths and Morrissey’s solo endevours… with one caveat: I can only take it when I am in the mood or in smal…
June 25th, 2004 at 3:10 PM PDT
[...] * Now, for you blog geeks out there playing with WordPress, manalang.com has released the most useful amazon plug-in for WordPress. It allows you to quickly add a link [...]
June 25th, 2004 at 4:14 PM PDT
Looks like a lot of fun this plugin, and very easy to install. Only I get the following error after performing a search. It happens everytime. Any ideas?
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-amazon/nusoap.php on line 5489Fatal error: Call to undefined function: keywordsearchrequest() in /var/www/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-amazon/AmazonSearch.php on line 98
June 26th, 2004 at 8:18 AM PDT
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June 26th, 2004 at 4:14 PM PDT
Reefer Madness
Welcome to the world of pot, porn, and illegal immigrants.
June 27th, 2004 at 6:38 AM PDT
This has got to be the slickest, coolest plugin I’ve ever seen for either Wordpress OR MT (I’m a convert). GREAT JOB!!! THANKS!
June 30th, 2004 at 1:52 AM PDT
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June 30th, 2004 at 6:51 PM PDT
Amazon Plugin
In the quest to add more geeky stuff to my already very geeky life, I’ve added a new plugin to my WordPress install. It’s called WP-Amazon and it adds a good looking interface to your write menu that lets you insert pictures of products right into th…
June 30th, 2004 at 10:48 PM PDT
[...] very geeky life, I’ve added a new plugin to my WordPress install. It’s called WP-Amazon and it adds a good looking interface to your write menu that lets yo [...]
July 1st, 2004 at 6:31 AM PDT
Looks fantastic! Are you planning to add support from other countries? (CAnada) for me!
Is there something we can do to help out with this kind of “localization”?
Thanks for making this available!
July 1st, 2004 at 8:26 AM PDT
Hey there, I wrote a similar plugin ages ago for WP, it stored the media in a database table to allow used to select what to display and whatnot… It’d be cool to see the in-site search from yours worked into a databasey-type side-bar lister thing like mine. If you’re interested in having a look into it drop me a line, I’m short on time but could give you all the code if you think it’d be useful?
Regards,
Denyerec
July 1st, 2004 at 9:19 AM PDT
Amazon WP Plugin
I think it is so nice… (Via Matt)
July 1st, 2004 at 12:12 PM PDT
Craig, unfortunately, Amazon Web Services currently supports US, UK, Germany, and Japan. I noticed that they do have Canada lined up for their future release and once that’s available, you can count on me adding Canada to this plugin.
Cheers!
- Rich
July 1st, 2004 at 12:12 PM PDT
Denyrec, What did you have in mind?
My goal for WP-Amazon was to keep it simple, no database tables, complicated web services configurations, or template modifications. Most of the time, people are just posting a link to a book or a CD they want to write about — and this plugin targets those writers. It’s still possible to create a “reading list” or “currently listening to” list using this plugin without making the functionality complicated. I didn’t feel there was a need to cache the data from Amazon since most of the time the writer will only need to access it once. Also, I decided not to include items like price for a product because data like that could change. The point of this plugin is to make it easier to include products that can be purchased from Amazon into an entry (with or without an Amazon Associates ID).
Anyway, let me know what you had in mind… maybe it’s a different plugin.
- Rich
July 1st, 2004 at 12:40 PM PDT
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July 1st, 2004 at 12:55 PM PDT
Great plug-in, I initially had problems on my test machine, but it works fine on the live server. I was getting identical errors to David above.
What version of PHP does it require as my test machine runs 4.4.2 and my live runs 4.3.5, or are there any specific modules/plug-ins/settings that are required to make it run?
July 1st, 2004 at 1:08 PM PDT
Lee, I’ve tested on PHP 4.3.3/7 on linux and windows. No additional modules/plugins are necessary. David’s on a PHP 4.3.3 debian server. We haven’t figured out his problem yet, he’s going to give me access to diagnose the problem. But so far, David’s the only one who’s reported a problem (and you with your test machine).
Thanks for letting me know.
- Rich
July 1st, 2004 at 3:55 PM PDT
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July 1st, 2004 at 5:14 PM PDT
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July 1st, 2004 at 5:35 PM PDT
Hey, great plugin! Well, it looks great. I have the error
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in XXXXXXXXX/wp-admin/wp-amazon/nusoap.php on line 5489
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: keywordsearchrequest() in XXXXXXXXX/wp-admin/wp-amazon/AmazonSearch.php on line 98
The server is using PHP 4.3.2 and I think it’s really the nusoap.php missing some functions… are you working on a hack?
July 2nd, 2004 at 3:10 AM PDT
Are you planning on adding Amazon.ca support?
July 2nd, 2004 at 9:28 AM PDT
Jeremy, as soon as Amazon begins to support Canada in their Web Services program, you can count on me to add it.
- Rich
July 3rd, 2004 at 2:01 AM PDT
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July 5th, 2004 at 1:39 AM PDT
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July 5th, 2004 at 7:12 PM PDT
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July 6th, 2004 at 10:27 AM PDT
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July 6th, 2004 at 2:39 PM PDT
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July 7th, 2004 at 8:07 PM PDT
Alias, Season 1
I’ve been borrowing this Season 1 set from a friend of mine, and I have to say, it’s quite addictive. Thanks, Kelli!
BTW, the above Alias DVD image brought to you by the excellent wp-amazon!
July 8th, 2004 at 6:44 PM PDT
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July 13th, 2004 at 9:36 AM PDT
very helpful. thanks!
July 13th, 2004 at 11:58 AM PDT
You forgot to add php to <? to AmazonSearch.php so on my default installation of PHP it didn’t work. Changing it to <?php of course fixed it.
July 13th, 2004 at 12:00 PM PDT
Drat, it didn’t like the entities. Let’s see if this works:
You forgot to add php to
July 13th, 2004 at 12:04 PM PDT
Blast! Third try:
You forgot to add php to (less than sign)? to AmazonSearch.php so on my default installation of PHP it didn’t work. Changing the first line to (less than sign)?php of course worked.
One more try on the tags: <?php>
July 13th, 2004 at 12:13 PM PDT
dan, thanks for pointing that out, I’ll put that change in my master.
July 15th, 2004 at 12:11 PM PDT
First, great plugin. Second…I’m having an error with it.
When I have the plugin activated, I get a Runtime Script error in IE. It happens on nearly every page, and the line number changes. I did select to debug it, and this is the line with the error:
Thank for your help and for a great plugin.
July 15th, 2004 at 2:11 PM PDT
Cory, what version of IE are you using?
July 15th, 2004 at 3:58 PM PDT
The most recent version. 6.0.2800.1106
The error does not occur on the post page. I haven’t been able to try it in Firefox yet.
July 16th, 2004 at 10:59 AM PDT
Cory, I’ve got this fix in my next version of WP-Amazon… probably due out this weekend. Thanks for reporting this!
July 16th, 2004 at 12:49 PM PDT
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July 17th, 2004 at 8:45 AM PDT
Hi, I believe I’ve found a small bug… if you haven’t found this already. Whenever I select something with an apostrophe in it’s title, I get a Runtime Error on line 114: Error: Expected ‘)’ soo, I am guess that when there’s an apostrophe it just needs a slash or whatever to make it safe to read by php.
Otherwise, great plugin! Thanks for writing it
July 17th, 2004 at 10:02 AM PDT
Katie, thanks for reporting that one… it’s on the list to fix.
July 18th, 2004 at 12:17 AM PDT
Any news on the Amazon.ca front? =)
July 18th, 2004 at 12:33 PM PDT
Jeremy S., as I said before, Amazon’s Web Services program still does not support Canada. Their current Web Services program only supports US, UK, Japan, and Germany. They have said that they will support Canada in the future release of their Web Services program, but no date has been set — at least that I know of. Read more here:
Amazon Web Services FAQ
July 25th, 2004 at 7:11 AM PDT
I’m getting the same error as the others:
arning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/blacknight/mneylon.com/web/blog/wp-admin/wp-amazon/nusoap.php on line 5489
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: keywordsearchrequest() in /home/blacknight/mneylon.com/web/blog/wp-admin/wp-amazon/AmazonSearch.php on line 98
I’ll have a poke around and see what I can find…
July 25th, 2004 at 9:56 AM PDT
I had a poke around in the code. The nusoap.php file makes explicit reference to a number of files that ship with the package that are not included in the plugin distribution. I added them, but it didn’t make any difference. I also tried installing the nusoap package globally, but it still doesn’t work.
Any ideas?
July 25th, 2004 at 11:46 AM PDT
Michele, I haven’t figured out that issue… but as an alternative, I will be rewriting WP-Amazon to use the standard XML interface Amazon provides instead of SOAP. I’ve read of others experiencing the same problems with Amazon while using NuSOAP. Just out of curiousity, what version of PHP are you running and on what OS/version?
July 25th, 2004 at 3:21 PM PDT
Rich
Debian testing
PHP 4.3.4
Maybe I need to modify some part of my php setup.
Michele
July 25th, 2004 at 3:40 PM PDT
Slight update on this. It now seems to work sometimes, but is rather inconsistent.
July 27th, 2004 at 1:30 PM PDT
Hi,
Plugin looks grea and I think I’m close to getting it going.
I get the same error as others have :
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/chroot/home/content/d/a/v/davcam/html/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-amazon/nusoap.php on line 5489
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: keywordsearchrequest() in /var/chroot/home/content/d/a/v/davcam/html/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-amazon/AmazonSearch.php on line 98
All relevant files chmod’d to 777 for testing
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Dave
August 3rd, 2004 at 6:39 PM PDT
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August 5th, 2004 at 10:56 AM PDT
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August 5th, 2004 at 11:04 AM PDT
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August 8th, 2004 at 1:54 PM PDT
This plugin was working just fine for me until I upgraded to a nightly snapshot for WP 1.3-alpha-2. It doesn’t seem to work now. I keep getting the “invalid argument” and “undefined function” errors mentioned above, and the insert from Amazon link shows up at the very bottom of the page.
August 10th, 2004 at 4:04 PM PDT
I was very excited to find this plug-in, but I keep getting errors. The files *are* installed where they belong, I am not sure what to do to fix this!
Warning: main(nusoap.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/quaysoco/public_html/bookshelf/wp-admin/wp-amazon/AmazonSearch.php on line 19
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘nusoap.php’ (include_path=”) in /home/quaysoco/public_html/bookshelf/wp-admin/wp-amazon/AmazonSearch.php on line 19
August 12th, 2004 at 8:21 PM PDT
I just want to give you a quick yet hearful THANK YOU for your kickass plugin. I have been trying to add these Amazon links to my site for the last two hours and the Amazon-provided HTML plain sucks. Five minutes after I decided to start writing a plugin from scratch (which would have used nusoap, just like yours) I decided to google one more last time, and Jesus, there it was!
BTW, all the problems I had with it (all 10 minutes worth) was because I was too lazy to transfer the files intact and I tried to paste their contents into PICO, one by one. I transferred the files one more time and bingo! Everything works
August 12th, 2004 at 11:40 PM PDT
Rich, I just want to let you know I really enjoy this plugin and have been using it for a while now. I added a blended search to search all categories, as well as keeping the category specific search. If you are interested, shoot me an email and I’ll send you the changes. Thanks again.
August 13th, 2004 at 1:33 AM PDT
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August 13th, 2004 at 3:53 PM PDT
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August 17th, 2004 at 12:38 PM PDT
Hi,
I think I just found the fix to the error I described above that a number of people have seen:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/chroot/home/content/d/a/v/davcam/html/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-amazon/nusoap.php on line 5489
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: keywordsearchrequest() in /var/chroot/home/content/d/a/v/davcam/html/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-amazon/AmazonSearch.php on line 98
In wp-amazon.php
I changed the $Token from this:
/* Set Amazon developer token */
$Token = ‘D2B1IIRG931JN5′;
to this:
$Token = ”;
(duh,Dave) - Now it works.
Thanks all
Dave
August 19th, 2004 at 11:15 AM PDT
A WordPress Amazon Plugin Endorsed
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August 25th, 2004 at 5:15 PM PDT
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August 28th, 2004 at 4:13 AM PDT
Just started testing WordPress, and this was one of the first plugins I found. Works nicely, and much less effort than what I had to do with MT. One feature I’d like to see is the ability to pick from multiple Amazon sources (I’d like to be able to link to UK and US. Would it be feasible to pick the source in the input box rather than setting it in the config file? Or is that (a) too messy or (b) not of use to enough people to be useful?
Thanks for the work you’ve already done, anyway
August 28th, 2004 at 10:47 AM PDT
Les, yeah… I have that feature planned for the next release (which I’ll get to soon enough). Thanks for using WP-Amazon!
September 7th, 2004 at 11:31 AM PDT
Is there a solution to the Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() problem?
September 18th, 2004 at 9:12 AM PDT
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September 22nd, 2004 at 11:17 AM PDT
Nice plugin. When will you support Amazon France (which I need, as my blog is in french)?
TIA.
September 22nd, 2004 at 11:53 AM PDT
Amazon has not released the API for France yet. When they do, I’ll make sure it’s in the next release of this plugin.
October 4th, 2004 at 5:32 PM PDT
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October 16th, 2004 at 8:08 AM PDT
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October 16th, 2004 at 11:40 AM PDT
[Sorry for this spam-ish comment on this entry: I looked for an email address to send you this, but couldn't find one... feel free to erase this comment afterward.]
I just released version 1.0 of what should soon enough become the somewhat official WP Plugin repository (currently figuring the domain name and how it will be presented from the main site).
The page is already flooded by users, but unfortunately still rather low on registered plugins (well, considering there are thousands of WP plugins floating around on the net).
So I have been making a round-up of everybody’s favorite plugins and I am currently working on getting these in, so as to get the DB off to a good start.
Ideally, it would be awesome if you could register it yourself, as it would both make life easier for me and give you greater control on how your plugin is presented (and easy access to admin options, for example if you want to notify users of an upgrade)… It is a really painless and quick process, probably less than 3 minutes (maybe 5, if you want to make it one-click installable):
http://www.unknowngenius.com/wp-plugins/faq.html#dev
However, if you do not feel like taking the time to do that, I would actually like to go ahead and add it myself… Of course you’ll be free to regain control of its entry in the DB at any moment (simply would have to create an account and contact me to transfer its ownership), so that users can still have access to it in the meantime. Before doing that, though, I first wanted to know if it was alright with you (and incidentally if you’d do it yourself)…
Sorry for the length and please do not hesitate to contact me directly if you got any question/suggestion/comment…
Cheers
October 17th, 2004 at 3:40 PM PDT
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October 20th, 2004 at 5:34 PM PDT
Nice plugin - thanks for doing all the hard work! Will you be updating it for the new Amazon Web Services (4.0)?
October 25th, 2004 at 4:48 AM PDT
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October 25th, 2004 at 5:09 PM PDT
Nifty. Just one thing, though. When searching on amazon.co.uk, the generated link code has “View product details at Amazon.com” for the title. Might be a bit confusing for visitors. Easy enough to edit it in the post, so not a major problem.
October 26th, 2004 at 6:51 AM PDT
I always shop amazon, and its a great way to blog about recent purchases. thanks.
November 1st, 2004 at 12:16 PM PST
Awesome plug-in — if I could get it to work. Every search I do a) takes forever and b) comes back with no results despite the fact that clearly there are results (search for Porter Cable in tools section returns nothing).
I just started trying to use ECS for the first time yesterday, and have also tried implementing the scripts provided at php9 (unrelated to wordpress), and those are not working either (same problem - takes FOREVER, comes back with zero results). Other php scripts I have all work fine.
At first I thought Amazon ECS must be having problems, but there aren’t any posts to that effect on the Amazon web services discussion board, so it seems the problem is somehow on my end.
I followed the steps to a tee. What might I be doing wrong, or what could possibly need changing in my server configuration to get this to work? I’m SOOOOOOOO excited to use it - it looks to be an amazing plugin - thanks so much for your hard work in creating in. Wish I could get it to work
November 3rd, 2004 at 1:13 PM PST
Hi Emily. I tried to email you but your email seems to be invalid. Anyway, what error are you getting?
November 4th, 2004 at 5:45 PM PST
Hi Rich -
I fixed the typo in my email address — thanks for trying to contact me - greatly appreciated!
I’m not getting back any error messages. Rather, when I click the link to insert content from amazon, the page pops open as expected asking which stores in amazon to search, etc. No matter what category I pick or what I search for, the status bar says it is loading the page while it processes the request (we’re talking a LOOOOOOOOOONG time), and when it finally returns the results, it says no products found. No matter which product category I select or what I search for. I tried searching amazon.com in Tools for Porter-Cable, came back with nothing. Same when I searched the entire store for elmo. After the huge wait, it comes back with “Results for: [elmo (0 matches)]”
Any help you can provide would be incredibly appreciated!
Much thanks in advance,
Emily
November 4th, 2004 at 5:57 PM PST
Hi Emily. Can you add the following code after line 504 in wp-amazon.php:
"; print_r $Results; print "“;
This will show you if you’re getting anything back from Amazon at all. Let me know what happens.
- Rich
November 4th, 2004 at 5:58 PM PST
Hi Rich,
I keep trying to post the info here, but it keeps giving me error messages whenever I click Say it related to kittens spaminator.. Could not find your email address to contact you directly, but mine is blogging AT emilyrobbins DOT com
sorry bout the typo in initial email
much much thanks for any help you can provide. Even if I search the entire store for elmo it comes back with zero results (and takes AGES to tell me that)
November 5th, 2004 at 12:27 AM PST
West Wing - The Complete Third Season
I’m testing a new Amazon.com plug-in I downloaded for WordPress. So, to the left you should see an image of The West Wing - The Complete Third Season, a DVD collection I want to get. After finishing the first two seasons on DVD, and watching a few epi…
November 5th, 2004 at 5:48 PM PST
Hi Rich -
Thanks for the SUPER FAST response!
I added that code after line 504 in wp-amazon.php and reuploaded, but now when I click the Insert content from Amazon link, it pops open a blank window, without even giving me the option to run a search (no drop down boxes, etc - blank page)
Thanks so much for your assistance in getting this working!!!!!!
Emily
November 7th, 2004 at 12:54 PM PST
The new version worked first time for me. Well done!
One thing I notices, you now have a dropdown menu for searches. It would be an interesting option to be able to specify multiple affiliate IDs so you could post from Amazon.com if the item wasn’t available on co.uk, for example.
Just a crazy thought
November 11th, 2004 at 8:25 PM PST
Hi Rich -
I got your email, but hadn’t had a chance to respond just yet — my boyfriend surprised me by popping the question, so I’ve been busy celebrating our engagement
I’m going to hold off on emailing the code to you at this juncture b/c I think the problem may be with my server. I tried to install Calin’s amazon scripts from http://www.php9.com, and they didn’t work either. I posted my error msgs to him, and he was said there were a whole bunch of issues wih my server setup (all of which was over my head) and I have the support team at my hosting company investigating the issue. I’m assuming whatever will fix that script will fix yours (hoping, praying), and will let you know either way as soon as I have an update.
Thanks so much for trying to help! And again, for writing this script and making it freely available to the Wordpress community.
November 11th, 2004 at 9:19 PM PST
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November 15th, 2004 at 8:37 AM PST
for 1.3a4
wp-amazon.php needs require_once(’admin.php’); line.
and for japanese support
you need to use htmlspecialchars for htmlentities.
because htmlentities make mojibake.
thanks
November 23rd, 2004 at 6:55 AM PST
Hi Rich, just finished installing WP-Amazon plugin. Works perfectly! Galing!
November 23rd, 2004 at 6:56 AM PST
Hi Rich, just finished installing the WP-Amazon plugin. Works perfectly! Galing!
November 23rd, 2004 at 10:55 AM PST
What a brilliant plugin, it’s so simple to use. However there is a “but” (sorry! I’m using to set up a bookblog and I would like to have a link to the book on the UK site with my associate-id, which I can do, and I would also like to post a link to the book on the US site with my US associate ID, which I can’t. Is there a way to do this?
November 23rd, 2004 at 4:40 PM PST
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November 29th, 2004 at 9:12 PM PST
Hi Shelagh. Thanks for the comments. I’ll add this to the to-do list for future releases.
Rich
December 1st, 2004 at 1:40 PM PST
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December 2nd, 2004 at 2:11 PM PST
A very good idea, this plugin! Thanks alot!
The only problem I’m having is the “language support”. When using the plugin on amazon.de the German special characters like ä are not displayed correctly although the charset is defined correctly.
Is there any fix for that?
December 6th, 2004 at 3:17 PM PST
Hi Sebastian. I’ve posted a new version above that fixes the problem you’re encountering.
December 8th, 2004 at 11:10 PM PST
Great plugin. One Question: I added my AMAZON ASSOCIATES ID and AWS subscription ID and everything works…but clicks on links don’t show up in my AMAZON Associates report. Any ideas?
December 9th, 2004 at 12:54 AM PST
Hi JB. You might want to check your associates account tomorrow. They update their statistics every night.
Rich
December 9th, 2004 at 7:20 AM PST
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December 10th, 2004 at 12:40 PM PST
I just downloaded your plugin and put it up in the correct folders on my site.When I put the code in that it gave me for the two books I requested, I wound up with linked code as output on this post. Here is the code for that post:
...at killing in the name of God and reaping the rewards of such, try at least 3 more times. Such is the case with the Crusades, of which Joan Acocella's brief book review, Holy Smoke:What were the Crusades really about?, is truly the extent of my knowledge on the subject. The books seem fascinating, though, and since I will have approximately 5 weeks of free time in about 6 hours (hopefully), I might have a chance to read these books:
and
Of course, my inability to ignore all things online (the major reason why I am currently awake and trying to finish my semester that could have been done at least a week ago) might also keep me from doing anything constructive offline over break as well. I’ll just have to maximize my online constructiveness…
Someone on the WP support forums said my img tag isn’t fully formed. What is going here? I am viewing it through Firefox on a Powerbook running Mac OSX, but I can’t imagine any of that has any bearing. Please email if you can. Thanks.
December 17th, 2004 at 4:13 PM PST
I installed your plugins.
But when I click
the Insert content from Amazon, I encountered this error message..
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare makexmltree() (previously declared in /home/lse12/public_html/home/wp/wp-admin/wp-amazon.php:78) in /home/lse12/public_html/home/wp/wp-content/plugins/flickr-gallery.php on line 438
December 19th, 2004 at 11:06 PM PST
Hey Rich…thanks for your quick response to my comment (#106). I was the one who wasn’t seeing any clicks register on my Amazon reports. I’ve been experimenting with using the wp-amazon plugin for Amazon links…and doing it the old-fashioned way by building links on Amazon’s site. Clicks register when doing it the old way…and they don’t register doing it the wp-amazon way.
old style link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=tzonblog-20&path=ASIN%2FB0001A99MO%2Fqid%253D1102649312%2Fsr%253D11-1%2Fref%253Dsr%255F11%255F1
wp-amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?tag=tzonblog-20&location=/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001A99MO%3FSubscriptionId=0CQWE92D5N989ZTWTW02
for the life of me…I can’t figure out why the clicks don’t register. You will note from the links that my Amazon ID is identical in both. hmmmm.
I really love your plugin…it’s one of the most elegant amazon link helpers out. If I could just get it working right for me….
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December 19th, 2004 at 11:31 PM PST
Hi JB. I have no idea why your clicks aren’t registering. You may want to email the Amazon ECS people. I don’t manipulate the URL at all. I use the URL (and other data) that Amazon returns from the search verbatim. You might want to take the two URLs you posted above and ask them why the URLs are different (I suspect they use different URLs to track how people are using ECS). Anyway, again, go to Amazon’s ECS site and create an issue or submit something in the forum.
Sorry I can’t be of much help.
Rich
December 28th, 2004 at 8:32 PM PST
Awesome Plugin. Any chance of you adding the capability of adding the link to the Add Link section rather than just posts. So if I have a category called “Good Books” I would want to insert the link there directly. For now, I can take the generated HTML link and stick it there but would be cool!
December 30th, 2004 at 3:16 PM PST
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December 31st, 2004 at 7:25 PM PST
Ok, I have been using your amazon plugin for a few days and want to say that it is awesome. thks!
January 9th, 2005 at 2:25 AM PST
Hi, I’ve been using your great plugin on my blog as well as a couple of others that I host and manage for folks in our church.
On one of those - http://www.byron-harvey.com - for some reason the links only seem to be good for a day or two, then for whatever reason, clicking on the image just takes you to a general Amazon page. I’ve checked it several times, and, for example, the latest book I checked on, has had 3 different links this week to actually go to the correct page.
Now we are using them as a cut and paste into the sidebar template, does that have any effect on it? Of the 7 books currently in the mentioned sidebar, only 3 (as of this writing) actually are going to the correct page; 4 days ago all 7 went to the correct page.
Just wondering if you have encountered this before and if there is any sort of work around to keep the links somehow current?
Thanks for any help at all, this has got me baffled (and a little frustrated w/ Amazon.)
January 17th, 2005 at 12:00 PM PST
I’ve followed the installation instructions and everything is fine until I try to search for a product. No matter what I type, the search returns zero results.
Any ideas?
January 25th, 2005 at 12:44 AM PST
Hi, I’m trying to hack your plugin a little for plog and the new canadian webservices. I’m having a problem with duplicate results showing up, hoping you will contact me and perhaps give me a heads up to what I’m doing wrong.
January 29th, 2005 at 9:41 AM PST
yup i agree with Brent Grech #114 it would be great if i the pluggin allowed me to add it to my link list, to creat like a music or reading list.
January 30th, 2005 at 5:51 PM PST
I’m having the same problem as Zach - zero matches no matter what, for things I know are there.
February 8th, 2005 at 4:49 PM PST
Titles with apostrophes in them are still giving grief. Once you’ve selected the product, the link creators don’t work at all.
February 10th, 2005 at 4:22 AM PST
will you made a version of your plugin for wp 1.5? i´m using your great plugin in wp 1.5 but i get the following error:
i don´t know whats wrong.
February 16th, 2005 at 7:41 PM PST
Will this plugin be compatible with WP 1.5? It does not seem to work anymore.
February 17th, 2005 at 1:46 AM PST
I am wondering about 1.5 too. Thanks! =)
March 29th, 2005 at 12:13 PM PST
Just wondering about the dependence on allow_url_fopen. I’ve read that this is a huge security hole, and was wondering whether it’s being replaced with curl…
March 29th, 2005 at 7:42 PM PST
Hi John. I’m not aware/familiar with any security issues with fopen. Do you mind pointing me to any security advisories you might have seen? I took a look at using curl, but it looks like the php needs to be compiled with curl enabled… and I’m not sure how many hosts have curl turned on. If you know more about this, please share it with me. If it’s truly an issue, I’ll go ahead and make some changes to WP-Amazon. Thanks!
March 30th, 2005 at 6:01 AM PST
Hello Mr. Manalang, I used your wp-amazon on WP 1.3 alpha with no problems, and was very happy to find you had updated it to work with wp1.5. I downloaded the new php file from the WP Plugin Directory and uploaded it to my plugins-directory via FTP, but when I go to the page where you manage the plugins in wordpress, for some reason the page doesn’t show up, so I can’t enable it or anything. Has that happened before and do you have a solution? Thanks for your efforts in any case, I was glad to use the plugin as long as I could ;D.
March 30th, 2005 at 6:02 AM PST
Clarification: I don’t mean the managing page doesn’t show, but I don’t get the option to activate your plugin! And it had the correct size and all, I checked.
March 30th, 2005 at 6:09 AM PST
Update: please disregard the last two posts. I am an idiot and didn’t remember that wp-amazon goes into the admin subdirectory. Here’s the link to the WP Plugin directory for all those people asking for an update though: http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-amazon/
March 30th, 2005 at 7:46 PM PST
Estara thanks for pointing to that updated version. Since the one that you can DL from here only offers the older version of the file that goes in the “wp-admin” folder. Good stuff…now it works again!
March 30th, 2005 at 8:16 PM PST
I added your plugin. When I click on the “Insert content from Amazon” link I get a blank page popup. I’ve tried it in both IE and Firefox and get the same results. Do I need to change some permissions on the folders that the files are in? Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.
March 30th, 2005 at 8:33 PM PST
Hi Jason. I just posted a new version of WP-Amazon right after you posted your message. This new version works with 1.2.x and 1.5.
Rich
March 31st, 2005 at 2:52 AM PST
Job well done. Thank you Rich, for the update, I just installed the plugin on my WP 1.5 powered site and it works perfectly.
March 31st, 2005 at 8:01 AM PST
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April 1st, 2005 at 9:03 AM PST
Unzipped, uploaded to plugins, activated, but I get:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in directories/wp-amazon.php on line 100
Known issue or my server?
April 1st, 2005 at 10:25 AM PST
I’m getting the following error message when I try to do a search (everything installed fine:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in /usr/web/jasonyormark.com/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon.php on line 100
Any ideas?
April 1st, 2005 at 3:55 PM PST
Same problem Jack and Jason.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /usr/home/chrisgolden/www/leftcoastbydesign/wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon.php on line 100
April 1st, 2005 at 4:29 PM PST
Hi Jack, Jason, and Chris. I made a change in WP-Amazon recently that requires the use
of curl instead of fopen for retreiving http content (due to security
concerns). Looks like I need to check that curl is installed on your
host before trying to use it.
Could I ask you guys for a favor? I just made the change to test if
curl exists. Could you guys test this and let me know if it works? I
have no way to test it with my host. I’ve emailed you the
wp-amazon.php file. All you have to do is drop in your plugins
directory.
Thanks!
Rich
April 1st, 2005 at 5:11 PM PST
I had my host install curl and it works perfectly now. If anyone is having a problem, you simply need to have your host provider install curl and you should be fine.
April 3rd, 2005 at 12:11 PM PDT
I am having a problem similar to others in that after I install the plugin and do a search I get zero results. I checked and I have curl 7.9.8, that came bundled with RedHat 9, installed. Do I need a more updated version?
Thanks.
April 3rd, 2005 at 4:35 PM PDT
I am getting the same error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in //wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon.php on line 101
I have curl (7.8.9) installed on my system (RH8.0) and even curl-devel is installed.
Any ideas? I saw in an earlier post your concern that PHP would have to be compiled with curl extentions. Do I need to go back and do this?
Any help would be appreciated. This is a very cool plugin and I’d love to use it on my site.
Thanks!
April 4th, 2005 at 6:27 PM PDT
Hi Bob. I’ve posted a new version of WP-Amazon that checks if curl is supported in your PHP install first and if it doesn’t it will revert to using fopen. Give it a try and let me know if it works.
Rich
April 5th, 2005 at 2:51 AM PDT
Hey there! Thanks for this loverly plugin! This will help me so much! Question tho, my site will tend to talk about products from america and japan, and i have associates IDs in both places. As I’m very unskillful when it comes to php, is there a way to list both IDs and have the plugin know which to use depending on whether amazon.com is selected or amazon.co.jp is selected? Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks for taking your time to create this! ^_^
April 5th, 2005 at 11:58 AM PDT
Hi Diana. Unfortunately, the feature you want is not supported yet. I’ll add that to the list for the next release.
Rich
April 6th, 2005 at 1:48 AM PDT
Hi,
Great plugin!
One silly question: where do I add my Associates ID?
Thanks,
Elad
April 7th, 2005 at 5:17 PM PDT
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April 10th, 2005 at 6:17 PM PDT
Hi there. Just insalled WordPress 1.5 and was really eager to give this great amazon plugin a shot. However, Im still getting curl problems:
DEBUG:
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Warning: curl_init() has been disabled for security reasons in /var/www/l3s1658/html/log/wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon.php on line 101
Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /var/www/l3s1658/html/log/wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon.php on line 102
Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /var/www/l3s1658/html/log/wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon.php on line 103
Warning: curl_exec(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /var/www/l3s1658/html/log/wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon.php on line 104
Warning: curl_close(): supplied argument is not a valid cURL handle resource in /var/www/l3s1658/html/log/wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon.php on line 105
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Any Idea? Thanks a lot in advance, really really appreciate this great piece of work!
April 11th, 2005 at 9:55 AM PDT
Hi,
I installed and activated your plugin on my local box (a Win98 system, connected to the Internet via dialup ), but I when I try to search Amazon, the search page returns no results. I tested with Harry Potter as the keywords and against all the different services (US, UK, etc). Do I need to change some setting?
Thanks.
April 11th, 2005 at 12:18 PM PDT
Scott, what version of php do you have and are you running it under apache or IIS? Do you also know if you’re running PHP as a CGI?
Also, just curious, why are you running WP on win98 via internet dialup?
Rich
April 13th, 2005 at 3:46 PM PDT
I should check my gmail account more often. I bumped up the file you sent along… but still get the same error. Haven’t been able to get in touch with my host about installing curl.
April 14th, 2005 at 8:05 PM PDT
Seems the whole she-bang was all that was needed! Thanks for the help Rich!
April 14th, 2005 at 8:31 PM PDT
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April 18th, 2005 at 7:52 AM PDT
Hi
I installed this plug in, activated it and all seems okay. the only problem is that when I try and search for anything it always says (0 Matches).
what can be the problem?
April 18th, 2005 at 11:46 AM PDT
Your host most likely does not have curl or allow_url_fopen turned on for PHP… either one of those are required for this plugin to work.
Rich
April 18th, 2005 at 5:53 PM PDT
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April 19th, 2005 at 3:46 AM PDT
Mr Manalang,
I have been using the plugin for some time, and recently upgraded to WP 1.5. I am using 1.2.5 which looks to be dated 11 April 2005. Anyhow, the web page seems to be fine, but on all the admin pages I have the following error messages on the top header area:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at //wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon-plugin.php:83) in /l/wp-admin/admin.php on line 6. This message is repeated 3 more times, each time the line number grows on up to line 9. If I deactivate the plugin, things go back to normal. Any ideas?
Meanwhile, thanks for the great plugin.
April 21st, 2005 at 7:55 AM PDT
Hi, Thanks for a great plugin. We are going to do reviews of plasma screens and TVs and wanted to link to Amazon for each one. It all works fine except for when we click ’save’ the post hangs. When we check the post later it’s all ok - just wondered if you knew what the prob was?
Also wondered how tricky it would be to add this to pages as well as posts?
Many thanks and congrats on the new family.
Bob
April 21st, 2005 at 8:17 AM PDT
Hi - sorry to post again - new to all this stuff, I managed to do a duplicate of the plugin for pages in 1.5. Just changed the name and bit of the code. Still wondered about the post hanging when saving though…. any thoughts?
cheers
bob
April 21st, 2005 at 11:37 AM PDT
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April 21st, 2005 at 2:40 PM PDT
I’ve just signed up for Amazon Affilates, got the code, and can fill it in alright, but I am stuck on where to find the Set Amazon Web Services subscription id — where do I get this ID from?
April 21st, 2005 at 6:04 PM PDT
Any news about the saving & hanging problem?…quite disturbing prob, would love to see a fix.
ThX!
April 22nd, 2005 at 7:56 AM PDT
When I put uploaded the code, etc - it keeps complaining that it can’t find the wp-config file whilst it is on the admin-header.php
Exact error is below;
Warning: main(../wp-config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in EXAMPLE_SITE_PATH/wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 2
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘../wp-config.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/include/php’) in EXAMPLE_SITE_PATH/web/wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 2
Please note EXAMPLE_SITE_PATH replaces my actual site root path.
There is an issue with the paths derived by this plug-in. How do I fix this?
April 26th, 2005 at 11:42 AM PDT
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May 2nd, 2005 at 12:24 PM PDT
hi just wanna ask… is it possible to put frames around individual products?
cuz even though i put it all as “small image” but they come out as different sizes
so by putting the border around it… makes it look equally sized.
how do i do it if its possible??
thx =)
May 4th, 2005 at 1:15 PM PDT
@AD:
replace line 2 of wp-admin/admin.php:
require_once(’../wp-config.php’);
with:
if ( !defined( ‘ABSPATH’ ) )
require_once(’../wp-config.php’);
else
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-config.php’);
May 5th, 2005 at 4:16 PM PDT
Thanks Denis
May 6th, 2005 at 7:04 AM PDT
Hi
Does this work with WordPress version 1.5 ??
thanks
brandon
May 6th, 2005 at 11:50 AM PDT
I can install the plugin and copy the search code, however everytime I want to publish or save it returns an error saying”Server Not Available”
any ideas why???
I’m using Wpress 1.5
May 7th, 2005 at 2:43 PM PDT
As of late (3 days) I’ve been getting (zero) matches when using this plugin…anyone else having issues?
May 7th, 2005 at 5:23 PM PDT
Works fine here. I used my own webservices-ID - maybe the ID supplied in the code suffers from overload?
May 8th, 2005 at 1:08 AM PDT
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May 10th, 2005 at 2:46 AM PDT
Thank you thank you thank you… this plugin does -exactly- what I wanted, works fantastically well, and I am so, sooooo happy to have it. What a relief not having to deal with building these links by hand! It’s like having a secret backdoor pass into amazon. Woohaw! :)))
May 10th, 2005 at 11:08 PM PDT
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May 18th, 2005 at 2:14 PM PDT
WHY DOES IT KEEP LOOKING IN WP-ADMIN?
I’M ON 1.5.1?!
May 20th, 2005 at 3:05 PM PDT
Hi! Please consider to include the following “fix” to the next release, it allows to show the plug-in also in pages: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/32412 Cheers!
May 20th, 2005 at 5:00 PM PDT
Hi Michael. I’ll go ahead and add your changes to WP-Amazon. Thanks for your contribution!
May 24th, 2005 at 11:14 PM PDT
Hello,
I don’t know if this been discussed before: Is linking and showing Amazon’s image on myself’s blog legal ?
May 28th, 2005 at 9:42 AM PDT
I can’t seem to get this plugin to work under 1.5.1.2. The current listed download resulted in a functional plugin, but any searches performed in the popup window resulted in zero returns. Ex- Searching for “Stephen King” under “books” or “any” would result in “0″ returns. I then tried the fix suggested here: developer fix, but this results in several errors opening wp-config. Any suggestions?
May 28th, 2005 at 9:50 AM PDT
Additional information: I reverted back to the packaged download on this site and I have the plugin “working” again, however, it is still returning zero items for all searches. Could this be a problem with my amazon ID or token? I’m not sure how to check those.
May 29th, 2005 at 10:09 AM PDT
Is there a way of having this show up in the sidebar, for instance under a ‘currently reading’ link instead of in a post?
May 30th, 2005 at 10:26 AM PDT
I’ve tried every variation now of this plugin, using both my own amazon ID/token and the ID/token included with the install. In all variations, this plugin returns ZERO items, no matter what the search subject.
Me thinks it does not work.
May 31st, 2005 at 10:42 PM PDT
JB - you aren’t alone. I’m having similar difficulty using the plugin on WP 1.5.1.2. The plug-in appears to work, but the search always returns 0 results, regardless of what you look for.
June 1st, 2005 at 11:58 PM PDT
The latest version (1.2.7) fixes the problem for me in WP 1.5.1.2.
Many thanks.
June 2nd, 2005 at 8:27 AM PDT
As suggested, I tried the latest version. This one indeed does not come up with the admin top panel when clicking the search from amazon link, however immediately after a search, the admin panel returns and hangs until a zero result is again displayed.
allow_url_fopen appears to be enabled on my server, I’m still checking on cURL.
June 3rd, 2005 at 9:58 AM PDT
Great plugin. I had no problems installing it on 1.5.1
One suggestion: it would be great to have an option for links to open in new windows.
Otherwise, this plugin rocks. Thanks for writing it!
June 4th, 2005 at 4:29 PM PDT
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June 7th, 2005 at 7:01 PM PDT
Well, I’m having trouble. I have 1.5.1.1 and I get this error:
Warning: main(admin.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/www/thepete/theblog/wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 3
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘admin.php’ (include_path=”) in /home2/www/thepete/theblog/wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 3
Any ideas?
June 8th, 2005 at 2:46 PM PDT
Hey, maybe I missing this in the ReadMe file, but it says above that your plug in supports amazon associates. But how do you get your amazon associates ID into the html generated by an amazon link?
June 8th, 2005 at 2:54 PM PDT
UPDATE: OK, I looked closer in the readme file & found it (a little hard to find, you might want to consider adding a line about this to your description above. It would’ve made it a whole lot easier for me to figure out.
Another ?, what’s amazon subscription services? Never heard of that service.
June 9th, 2005 at 2:57 PM PDT
Hi, I installed your plugin and everything appears to work, except I don’t get redirect to my blog after I hit the submit button. It just stays on the Write page and keeps loading, as if it hasn’t finish submitting, but the post is acutally recorded.
I am using WP 1.5.1.2
June 11th, 2005 at 9:00 PM PDT
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June 14th, 2005 at 6:17 AM PDT
What does this mean in wp-amazon.php?
/* Set Amazon Web Services subscription id */
$SubscriptionID = ‘0EMV44A9A5YT1RVDGZ82′;
I can’t find out anything as to its meaning at Amazon. Thanks
June 16th, 2005 at 9:17 PM PDT
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June 18th, 2005 at 8:02 AM PDT
Hi,
I just installed this onto my blog but when I search it always returns 0 results, Is there a fix for this?
Thanks.
June 18th, 2005 at 8:40 AM PDT
1. If you had used the older versions of this plugin, make sure you follow the README because the current version has both files in the same folder, while the older versions like the one I had used two separate folders.
2. If you had no used it for a while, you may need a new Amazon developer ID, http://www.amazon.com/gp/aws/landing.html
I installed everything as per the instructions yet the page returned zero hits until I fed it a fresh developer ID.
June 18th, 2005 at 12:37 PM PDT
Aha!
Brilliant! That worked Pedro.
Thanks.
Also, what do i put under AssociateTag?
June 21st, 2005 at 5:53 AM PDT
WordPress Plugin: Wp-Amazon
Un Plugin per semplificare l’aggiunta di Link diretti ad Amazon utilizzando WordPress
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June 21st, 2005 at 11:51 AM PDT
I am running WP 1.5.1.2 and just added this plugin alas when I do a search (Amazon US - Jewelry- Paris Hilton [for example]) the progress bar gets to about 2/3’s and then just hangs. I resubmitted my AWS info and was assigned a new ID but alas still the samer thing.
Any ideas?
June 24th, 2005 at 11:39 AM PDT
I love this plugin but it doesn’t work with the Tiger Admin Style. Would it be possible in a future version to make it a button (n