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**manfred77** · 03-16-2003, 01:43 AM

Amazon is offering XML feeds. You can program your server to read these feeds to product their entire catalogue on your web site.

If you don;t know XML, there are lots of third party products you can use. Amazon ran a promotion where developers competed to make XML simple for the average webmaster.

My favorite is the mallsocket.com application. Try installing this code on a test page for your site:

PHP Code:


			
iframe src="http://mallsocket.com/mall.aspx?id=1"

 width="416" height="300" scrolling="auto" border="0"

 marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" title="WebStore">

</iframe>

Now all you have to do is plug in your amazon associates ID and you have an entire mall of 15 stores where you earn the commission on every sale. Kind of cool I think for a single line of HTML code.

Manny

**piranha** · 03-30-2003, 11:22 PM

Looks cool - but where do I plug in my associate ID?

Chris

**david** · 03-31-2003, 01:26 PM

I looked into this sort of thing a while ago. I'd love to put some Amazon content on my site but haven't got the time (at the moment) to learn how to process XML with PHP. If anyone knows of somewhere where I can get some code which will output a list of x amount of books when input a keyword I'd be very very greatful!

**manfred77** · 04-01-2003, 12:02 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by piranha
Looks cool - but where do I plug in my associate ID?

Chris

You plug it in at the Member services section at http://MallSocket.com. Then install the code you are given and that's it.