11.25.06
Amazon API Affiliate Script using PHP - Version 2 of a bad posting
I just want to apologize to the Blogosphere, or whatever you call yourselves, for this additional post. I am having technical difficulties with Wordpress which have cost me hours of time. Anyway, here’s what I was trying to say earlier:
Lets get down to the substance: I have for you some rough code that I setup to setup my own Amazon Affiliate store, using the Amazon API. I thought I would try my hand at some affiliate marketing - so far its been okay. I picked up a copy of this book that explains how to use the various API services available from Amazon, Fedex, UPS, Google, and others. I think its a great book if you want to setup some custom shopping cart software to take orders and allow for customers to track their shipments. Its also good for me, as I don’t have a store yet to speak of, and will have to settle for affiliate marketing of the Amazon products.
To use this code, you’re going to need the ‘nusoap’ Soap library for PHP to use it with the Amazon API. It allows you to use SOAP services without having to have SOAP installed on your system. I tried installing SOAP years ago, and that was a pain. So save yourself some hassle and use this instead.
If you would like to see this code in action, I have it in use online at my Christmas Gifts and Crafts site.
Forget posting a code snippet - Wordpress 2 couldn’t handle it and I tried numerous plugins - none helped the situation.
Download the zipped index.php, styles.css and images folder here:
Amazon Affliliate Code version 1
