Amazon Reloaded for WordPress
Download Amazon Reloaded for WordPress
Are you frequently looking for links on Amazon.com to show off books, movies, or music that you’re interested in? Are you an Amazon Associate looking to make a few bucks from your blog? Do you just want an easy way to insert Amazon product images into your posts without leaving WordPress?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then you’ve come to the right place. With my easy to use plugin, Amazon Reloaded for WordPress, you can grab product links and images directly from Amazon without ever leaving your post screen. As an added bonus, you can set up your Amazon Associate id to ensure that you get the commissions you deserve from sending people to buy items.
So what would you expect to pay for this plugin? $97? $147? More? Well, you won’t be paying any of them because this plugin is completely and unequivocally free. That’s right, you can experience the convenience of searching Amazon from within WordPress for the low, low price of nothing.
How To
The Amazon Reloaded for WordPress plugin is amazingly simple to setup and use. Just follow the following steps and you’ll be ready to go in no time at all.
- Download the plugin from the official plugin repository
- Using FTP or some other method, place the plugin inside your
wp-content/pluginsfolder - Activate the plugin from the ‘Plugins’ menu
- (optional) Enter your locale and Associate ID on the settings page located in
Settings/Amazon Reloaded - Start writing a post or page and when you need to insert something, scroll down to the Amazon Reloaded meta box
- Enter your search term and press the Search button or hit enter
- Click on the category headers to browse the products found
- To insert a link, click the product name. To insert an image, hover over insert image and select Small, Medium, or Large
That’s it. You’re ready to start inserting items into your posts. Good luck. If you make a few bucks, please don’t forget to donate to my plugin development fund
Support
As stated above this plugin is released completely free. It’s release is not a for-profit venture and as such, no guarantee is provided on the performance or functionality of this plugin. While I will do my best to help you, you must either leave a comment here or contact me directly describing your problem in as much detail as you can.
If I have time to help you, I will. However, I am usually busy with paid plugin development work and, seeing as I need to pay for my rent, utilities, and other things now that I’m out of college, that stuff comes first. You can rent an hour of my time to look at your problems with any of my free plugins for $60. That gets you a guarantee of spending at least an hour straight on your problem. In my experience, most problems can be fixed in that amount of time.
Changelog
This changelog is only valid for versions 2.1.0 and above. All changes before then are committed in the appropriate SVN log on wordpress.org.
Version 3.1.0
- Added support for i18n
- Fixed some CSS issues so IE7 users can actually insert images now
- Added some better JavaScript event handling. Thanks The Doctor What
Version 2.1.0
- Added support for different countries
- Fixed cURL problem which was affecting people with safe_mode or open_basedir active
- Fixed typos and other minor bugs
Known Problems
While I try to fix all bugs, there are some things that are just particulars of the operation of the plugin. Please be warned this section gets somewhat technical.
Gobbledy Gook as Response
The reason this is happening is because Amazon cannot access the XSLT file it needs to in order to transform it’s XML response into HTML. The file that Amazon needs to access is stored on your server and you need to make sure that Amazon can see it . My file can be seen here.
There are a couple of reasons the file may be inaccessible.
- You are running a local server for testing
- Your wp-content directory is blocked from serving request via a .htaccess file
If you can visit http://mysite.com/wp-content/plugins/amazon-reloaded-for-wordpress/resources/amazon-reloaded.xslt without problem, then it might just be a hiccup in the connection. Shoot me an email and we’ll try to work it out
August 28th, 2008
Wordpress 2.6.1 and Amazon Reloaded 3.0.2 is broken for me. If I type a search term (such as “David Byrne”) I get a bunch of gobledygook:
[Edited out gobbledygook]
August 29th, 2008
@Doctor – I sent you an email. Thanks for the input!
August 29th, 2008
I just started looking at Amazon Reloaded and I’m having the same problem as @Doctor with version 3.1.0 and WP 2.6.1. Can you provide any details about how to fix it?
Thanks for the work.
August 29th, 2008
@zobie – Please read the note that I added above right before the comments section.
August 29th, 2008
Do you know if it might be possible to pull in item descriptions as well? Or for that matter, ratings, reviews, etc?
If you think it is possible, but that it’s more in the paid plugin development field, please feel free to ping me and I’d be happy to discuss your terms for this capability.
August 30th, 2008
@IndieLab – That might be possible, but that’s kind of an involved thing. I’ll get in touch.
August 30th, 2008
Cool, I’ll wait:)
September 2nd, 2008
Just downloaded and installed the plugin. I’m using WP 2.6. I can access the plugin settings to input my Associates ID, however, if I try to write a new post I get the following error.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_enqueue_style() in /home/content/w/a/x/waxwing1/html/think/wp-content/plugins/amazon-reloaded-for-wordpress/Amazon-Reloaded.php on line 88
Any ideas?
- John
September 2nd, 2008
False alarm. Turns out I needed to upgrade from WP 2.5 to WP 2.6 for it to work. Seems like a great product!
September 2nd, 2008
@John – Glad you got that worked out. Thanks for the compliment.
September 19th, 2008
Nice tool and thanx for the work — but the localization seems not to be perfect :-(
For example: I use german amazon and search for “Star Wars” / DVD — there will be only 4 items. If i use amazon directly, there more than 3 pages… Any solution? Or did i something wrong..? (of course i have filled in the settings ;-)
September 19th, 2008
@Oberlehrer – The search results are limited to 3 items per category by the Amazon API. If you want to get a different item then the ones returned, then you need to specify more keywords from the title. That is a limitation of the Amazon API.
September 20th, 2008
Aha — it’s not a bug, it is a feature ;-) Thanx for the explanation.
September 23rd, 2008
Hello.
This plugin is very useful.
So, I want more Japanese people to use it.
I made Japanese translation files.
http://www.dohc.sytes.net/download/20/
http://www.dohc.sytes.net/download/21/
I wish my work helps somebody.
Thank you.
September 24th, 2008
@Dai – Thanks so much, I’ll include them in the distribution. Do you have a WordPress username so I can list you as a contributor?
September 24th, 2008
Nick, thanks anyway, it’s my honor.
I made Japanese translations for some plugins,
But I’ve not cared about WordPress username.
Yes, I have the one, d_inoue is my own.
My original plugin…it’s better to say modded plugin
is here : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-trackback-by-category-for-wordpress-23/
September 24th, 2008
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October 18th, 2008
Great plugin Nick, it really makes taking advantage of the amazon affiliate program much easier, so thank you!
Weird thing, the plugin was working just fine for a while, but now only returns the so called ‘Gobbledy Gook’. I went through your comment section and had no problem reaching the XSLT file, so I am wondering if you have any other ideas?
I deactivated and reactived the plugin to no help. Any thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks
November 2nd, 2008
Great plugin, thank you.
Is it possible to add support for text links, I don’t always want to use an image.
Also, just wondering what the bits in the link are for.
If I generate a link directly in amazon, I get a link like:
Edit: Link removed
but using the plugin I get a link like:
Edit: Link removed
November 2nd, 2008
@X-Factor Blog – Thanks for the thanks. It is possible to use text links, just click on the product name and one will be inserted. The links are grabbed directly from returns from API service calls to Amazon, so I can’t tell you in detail what they are for. If you’re curious, you can consult Amazon’s API declarations.
November 2nd, 2008
Thanks for the quick reply nick.
I thought that link was just a link to the page that the image would point to & was right clicking/opening in new tab to see it, didn’t realise clicking it would insert it into the post.
Fantastic work.
November 5th, 2008
By any chance have you ran any test on WP 2.6.3 – Please say Yes!
November 5th, 2008
@travis – While I haven’t explicitly tested on WP 2.6.3, I’m sure it is fine. The only differences between 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 was the Snoopy library vulnerability was fixed. This library doesn’t rely on that API at all, so you should be ok.
November 9th, 2008
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November 10th, 2008
I just added this plugin but can’t find “amazon reloaded” in the “settings.” Do you mean I should click on ’settings’ that is found at the top right of the wordpress admin page? That’s the only “settings” I can locate but when I click on it, nothing labeled ‘amazon reloaded’ shows up.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Marianne
November 10th, 2008
Oops…please disregard that note. Turns out I didn’t have it activated.
November 10th, 2008
@Marianne – No problem. I was going to ask you that anyways.
December 22nd, 2008
Before I Upgrade my wordpress to 2.7, di plugin work perfectly. But after I upgrade to 2.7, It doesn’t work again. Is this plugin incompatible with wordpress 2.7 ?
December 22nd, 2008
@ocid – You’re correct about this not working on 2.7. I just haven’t found the time to upgrade the plugin yet, but I will be doing so soon.
December 22nd, 2008
It’s OK Nick, thanks for this nice plugin. I will waiting for your new upgrade of this plugin.
December 30th, 2008
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December 31st, 2008
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January 2nd, 2009
Hey there Nick. The plugin works for me in Wordpress 2.7. If you do do any updates to it in the future it would be great if it could search of digital downloads like Amazon MP3s. Nice work!
January 3rd, 2009
@Chris – Thanks for the update. I’ll definitely take your suggestion into consideration.
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January 6th, 2009
Nick I also have successfully used this plugin in WP 2.7
Using Copyblogger theme
January 8th, 2009
@Ron – Thanks for letting me know!
January 8th, 2009
Nothing but gobbledygook in 2.7, probably because the blog is behind a .htaccess protected portion of the site. Any way around this aside from re-writing the plugin to expect the file elsewhere?
Thanks,
Bill
January 8th, 2009
@Bill – You’re exactly right on why it’s not working. You will have to rewrite the plugin to look elsewhere for the file. I’m planning on rewriting the plugin soon, though, so you wouldn’t have to worry about it. I’ll be posting updates here on the blog.
January 8th, 2009
Thanks for the quick response Nick.
I’ve already changed the path to the .xslt file to the site root where it can be accessed, and the plugin works great! I was thinking about adding the location of the .xslt file to the config options, but if you’re planning on updating the plugin I won’t mess with it.
Thanks again,
Bill
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January 15th, 2009
I’d like to modify the plugin so that the amazon item opens a new page (target=”_blank”). Can you tell me where to find that section in the plugin code? Thanks.
January 15th, 2009
@Mystech – Not at this time. I’ll be releasing a pretty big update sometime soon and I’ll be posting on this blog with details. If it still doesn’t do what you want, I’ll be sure to get back to you then.
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January 18th, 2009
Can I add my own text and use your plugin as a Book Review widget
January 18th, 2009
@Jesslyn – Absolutely. Add your own text as you want!
January 23rd, 2009
Hi Nick. I’m trying out your plugin for the first time, and the links work great. However, on my site, I use amazon’s little javascript, which they call “Product Previews” (where a little amazon window pops up when your cursor hovers over the link.) Your links bring up the box when I hover over them, but no content appears. Know the reason why?
I have my own associate link template which I use, which is this:
,
and it works fine with the script. Would be nice to have it automatic, though.
Thanks.
January 23rd, 2009
Whoops. Please forgive my omitting the in my previous comment..
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January 27th, 2009
great plug-in; glad to see continued development and evolution.
not sure why, but i was actually able to get the basic functions of the old amazon plugin to work ok with WP 2.6.1–somehow; i’m not a programmer and didn’t modify the code. for the time being, i might have to stick with it for two (and a half reasons); take them merely as food for thought or constructive criticism, whichever sounds more friendly to you :)
1) i only ever post music/movies/game related amazon results, and was easily able to edit which categories were searched with the old plugin. i can’t see any easy or simple way to do that with ‘reloaded’, and always seem to get results for “kitchen” no matter what. i got a poster of bono in the kitchen results once.
2) i can’t modify or edit the output when the results are sent to the editor–or at least get it to properly work after tinkering with the functions in the .js file. it was pretty easy to modify the html being output in the old plugin, simply dropping in the +href+ tokens and whatnot where they belong; as easy as creating a custom BBCode for phpBB3.
.5) this isn’t your fault, i understand, but the old one returns so many more search results ;)
so, not sure if either 1 or 2 are things that could potentially be options in the settings panel for future versions, but i’ll keep my eye on this and hope to someday upgrade my makeshift, hobbled old amazon plugin. thanks again for all your efforts toward a more robust offering of free wordpress add-ons!
January 28th, 2009
@aaron – Thanks for the constructive criticism. In the next release, which I’ve been meaning to work on for a while now, I plan on adding a bunch of features that have been recommended to make it a more functional and useful plugin. Hopefullly there will be an upgrade by the middle of February.
January 28th, 2009
awesome.. mid-february? sounds like a valentine to all us wordpress users. because you love us. haha.
can’t wait to see it!
February 3rd, 2009
Hi, I’m using Wordpress 2.7. It worked bevor with WP 2.7. Now the plugin can’t find amazon anymore – seems so. It tryed to deactiavate other plugins, dosn’t change. I would be really greatfull if it could work with the next releas:
I get this instead amazon:
Netzwerkzugriffsmeldung: Die Seite kann nicht angezeigt werden.
Erklärung: Die gewünschte Seite kann nicht angezeigt werden.
Versuchen Sie Folgendes:
* Aktualisieren der Seite: Suchen Sie die Seite erneut, indem Sie auf die Schaltfläche Aktualisieren klicken. Die Zeitüberschreitung ist ggf. aufgrund einer Internetüberlastung aufgetreten.
* Überprüfen der Schreibweise: Überprüfen Sie, ob Sie die Adresse der Webseite richtig eingegeben haben. Ggf. haben Sie sich bei der Adresse verschrieben.
* Zugriff von einem Hyperlink: Wenn es einen Hyperlink auf die gewünschte Seite gibt, versuchen Sie, über diesen Hyperlink auf die Seite zuzugreifen.
Wenden Sie sich an Ihren Administrator oder ans Helpdesk, wenn Sie die angeforderte Seite immer noch nicht anzeigen können.
Technische Informationen (für Supportpersonal)
* Fehlercode: 400 Fehlerhafte Anforderung. Die Daten sind unzulässig. (13)
* IP-Adresse: 87.238.85.136
* Datum: 03.02.2009 08:38:31
* Server: V-Server2-id-4
* Quelle: Proxy
February 3rd, 2009
Sorry, my comment wasn’t spam. It was to report a bug to improve next relase.
Hoped you could help.
Simone
February 3rd, 2009
@Simone – I started working on a new version of Amazon Reloaded for WordPress last night. You should expect to see it within the next two weeks.
February 8th, 2009
Thanks a lot for sharing this plugin.i love it’s functionality.
have a good day
February 12th, 2009
Right now it shows that the UK amazon doesnt work..
Please fix
thanks
Ben
February 12th, 2009
@Ben – I’m sorry to hear that. Could you tell me a bit more about your problem?
February 19th, 2009
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March 8th, 2009
Great job, Nick.
The product finding interface is MUCH better than Wp-Amazon, but the links seem different and they do not activate the product preview pop up on my site, which used to work fine.
PLEASE fix this.
March 9th, 2009
Gal – I’ve been meaning to get the new version out, which may fix your problem. I’ll try to help, but can’t guarantee anything because paid development has to take precedence over Open Source stuff.
March 10th, 2009
Hi Nick,
If it helps, I see two options here:
1. Provide your own code to replace http://www.assoc-amazon.com/s/link-enhancer?tag=&o=1 and link-enhancer-common.js and adapt the code to enhance your link style. Specifically, see this line:
var redirect = new RegExp(“^http://www\\.amazon\\.(com|ca|co\\.jp|de|fr|co\\.uk)/(exec/obidos|o)/redirect”, “i”);
2. Adhere to the Amazon enhancement URL structure (see above)
I’m glad you are up for this. Many people will thank you, I’m sure!
Cheers,
Gal
March 10th, 2009
Oh, yes, if you opt for #1, we’re done, but there’s possible maintenance later. If you opt for #2, would you please provide something to migrate the current link style to the new?
Thank you so much,
Gal
March 11th, 2009
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March 21st, 2009
Thanks for the link Nick! I hope I did that link right on my blog. And it’s a great plugin! I sat here for about 30 minutes trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, then, like I said, I just googled around and there you were. Nicely done and much appreciated.
March 21st, 2009
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March 31st, 2009
Great plugin Nick! Many thanks for sharing it, and I must say it is excellent work.
I posted more nice words over at my corner of the net, if you care to read them. :)
http://www.edthedev.com/2009/amazon-reloaded-for-wordpress/
April 6th, 2009
I would love to see this work with 2.7.1
April 6th, 2009
@Ahmed – Yeah, me too. I just haven’t gotten around to fixing it up.
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April 9th, 2009
Nick,
I installed on WP 2.7.1 it worked but then I noticed the “Add” button for Tags stopped working when I neeeded to edit or add a new tag to a post.
I deactivated and uninstalled…the “Add” button for “Tags” is still not working…can not add new tags to old posts.
Help!
What else can I do after deactivating and uninstalling to clean out the lingering effects of the plugin.
Thanks.
April 9th, 2009
@rob – Not sure as I’ve never heard anyone report this problem. Do you have any other plugins installed?
April 27th, 2009
Just got here from wordpress plugin directory. You should have added some screenshot, that could have made my work much easier. :)
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June 17th, 2009
Hello will this plugin be updated for version 2.8?
July 16th, 2009
Hi Nick,
Today I got email from Amazon which said that any amazon application which using amazon API, which mean they want you to register your plugin in their site. You can access it via Amazon affiliate account, and go to “Product Advertising API”.
I’m (and All your amazon reloaded user also)will be really happy if you can fix this issue. I’m waiting for next update, because your amazon reloaded plugin is the BEST amazon wordpress I have ever tried :)
July 16th, 2009
@cowy I’ll get to work on fixing this up pretty soon. Thanks for the compliments :)
July 26th, 2009
Hi!
Seems like a good plug to get Amazon ads into posts but I can only see how to add the Amazon product Image or Text to the post. Is there a way to add the image and text context ad the same that you get when generating the html from the Amazon site. ie with the frame and button that says Buy from Amazon etc?
Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks! janie
July 26th, 2009
@Janie – The intention is not to get Amazon ads into posts, it is to generate links to products. There is no way to do what you’re asking with the plugin.
July 26th, 2009
oh man, I swear I had my affiliate ID set before I started making links, but apparently it didn’t stick. is there a way for me to see which posts have my affiliate id in them? And then after that how do I (easily) edit the links to have my affiliate link ?
or is this something that happens behind the scenes and I can change my affiliate id after making a link in a post?
July 26th, 2009
@tiki god – Sorry, bro. There’s no way to retroactively add the affiliate ID. You’ll have to do it manually.
July 28th, 2009
Hi again Nick,
Have you had any chance to look at the preview issue? I have a strong feeling this is critical to our conversions, which are, after all, the point of having your excellent plugin.
Cheers,
Gal
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August 17th, 2009
Hi Nick,
I have the same issue as cowy says – Amazon API change.
Now I cannnot get any image from Amazon via your plugin.
This is the critical situation for me.
I love this plugin because ofbest simple functionarity, and I don’t want to change to another one.
Please, plese update Amazon reloaded for WordPress!
Thanks,
Masa
August 18th, 2009
Hi Nick,
I can’t get anything to appear when I type click the search. It used to work but now nothing. Something’s changed somewhere. Can it be fixed easily?
Cheers
August 18th, 2009
Hi Nick,
I’m having the exact same problem — it just started yesterday, I think.
Fingers crossed that it can be fixed easily…..
Laurie
August 18th, 2009
I’m sorry, I should’ve said how much I love your plugin! It’s been so great, being able to upload a book or product so easily.
Now that it’s gone, I’m lost!
Anyway, thanks for the good times :-)
August 18th, 2009
It can be fixed easily, I just don’t know when I’m going to get the time to do so.
August 19th, 2009
This stopped working for me yesterday. Same as Masa and Stephen described.
I thought it was when I upgraded Wordpress to 2.8.4. But it seems more likely that Amazon changed their API…
August 19th, 2009
Nick — If you can just tell me what needs changing/fixing, please let me know so I can at least fix it until you make an official fix. Thanks!
August 19th, 2009
Amazon changed their API and stipulated that requests need to be signed. If you want to go ahead and do that, you can do so because the plugin is open source. If anyone gets it working, let me know and I’ll put it in the official version. I just don’t have time to do it right now.
August 20th, 2009
It appears another key is required to sign the request, but your code only provides AWSAccessKeyId. It looks like we’ll need the Secret Access Key as well.
August 20th, 2009
Both Access key ID and Secret Access Key would be required.
These can be obtained from the site: Amazon Web Service (free of charge).
August 20th, 2009
Yep. I got it to sort of work so far using my own keys, but it appears the current xslt stylesheet isn’t working right. I get get results without using it (which are useless in the plugin) but once I apply the stylesheet, I get a blank set of results.
August 20th, 2009
I take that back — I had something else going on.
Anyway, for anyone impatient like me for a fix, here’s one that works:
http://www.cliqueclack.com/code/2009/08/20/a-fix-for-amazon-reloaded-for-wordpress-and-amazons-new-api/
August 22nd, 2009
Hi Nick,
WordPress gave me a notice to update the Reloaded plugin, and I did….but everything seems to be the same. Did you update the plugin — do I need to do something different to get it to work again?
I know you’re busy with your other work — I totally understand — but am just curious about this update!
Thanks,
Laurie
August 27th, 2009
Hi Gudlyf,
I tried to test your code, but failed as follows:
I removed all of the original Amazon reloaded code and replaced it with your new code.
Then entered both Access key ID and Secret Access Key into your code.
After the modification, I enabled the plugin, entered Associate ID, and selected country = Japan.
But nothing can be found.
Anything wrong?
August 27th, 2009
Masa –
In the code, change the following lines:
$request = “http://xml-us.amznxslt.”;
$request .= $this->options[ 'tld' ];
To just:
$request = “http://xml-jp.amznxslt.com”;
August 28th, 2009
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August 28th, 2009
Gudlyf,
Thanks for your information.
I will try.
August 29th, 2009
Hi Gudlyf,
Finally I could get the expected results which were just the same as before.
Thanks for your nice work!
August 30th, 2009
Hey all,
Just wondering if this was going to be updated for the latest versions???
August 30th, 2009
Will there be an update in the next time???
Don’t know hox i get the plugin to work with “Amazon.de”.
Which file i must edit???
André
August 31st, 2009
Andre –
In the code, change the following lines:
$request = “http://xml-us.amznxslt.”;
$request .= $this->options[ 'tld' ];
To just:
$request = “http://xml-de.amznxslt.com”;
September 1st, 2009
I found this in the file “Amazon-Reloaded.php”
$request = “http://ecs.amazonaws.”;
$request .= $this->options[ 'tld' ];
and changed it to
$request = “http://xml-de.amznxslt.com”;
Now i get the following error and the complete WP-Page doesn’t work:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’ in /is/htdocs/…/…/wp-content/plugins/amazon-reloaded-for-wordpress/Amazon-Reloaded.php on line 206
September 2nd, 2009
[...] 作者さんのブログにもいろいろ返事が来ていますね。中には新APIに対応したカスタマイズプラグインを配布してくれている人もいますので、検討してみるのもいいですね。 [...]
September 2nd, 2009
Starting with the fix at:
http://www.cliqueclack.com/code/2009/08/20/a-fix-for-amazon-reloaded-for-wordpress-and-amazons-new-api/
I found that my hosting service is using PHP 4, so I made the following change:
In sign_url, change:
$signstr = base64_encode(hash_hmac('sha256', $signstr, $this->secret, true));
to the following:
if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION,'5.1.2','>='))
{
$signstr = base64_encode(hash_hmac('sha256', $signstr, $this->secret, true));
}
else if (function_exists('mhash') && defined('MHASH_SHA256'))
{
$signstr = base64_encode(mhash(MHASH_SHA256, $signstr, $this->secret));
}
This code is based on code I found at AWS:
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=35172&tstart=105
Also, I noticed that parse_url created an empty $host. So in a bit of expediency I hard coded:
$host = "xml-us.amznxslt.com";
After that, everything started working!
Thanks Nick Ohrn for a great plugin and to Keith at Cliqueclack for their fix!
Rob
http://www.littleones.com/
September 3rd, 2009
[...] Amazon Reloaded for Wordpress Ger dig ett enkelt sätt att leta upp och lägga in länkar till Amazon – men du får söka på exakt rätt sak – Amazons API ger bara 3 sökträffar oavsett hur många det finns. Hemsida [...]
September 4th, 2009
[...] カクカク立体GIFアニメ作成をおこない、エントリアップする段になって、はじめてAmazonのAPIが変わっていることに気づいた。特にアフィリエイトがどうこうしたいというわけでなく、Amazon.co.jpの商品を簡単に貼り付けるために使っていたAmazon Reloadedプラグイン。きけば、いやさ、読めば-つたない英語読解力で-プラグイン作者はお忙しいらしく、プラグインの改修に手をつけられないらしい*1。それでも、有志が新API対応版作ったよ、というエントリを見かける。つ A fix for Amazon Reloaded for Wordpress and Amazon’s new API | CliqueClack Code [...]
September 8th, 2009
[...] plugin can be a bit tweaky as the Amazon API has changed. See discussion in the comments for more information. However, if all one wants is to be able to use Amazon affiliate codes and to [...]
September 25th, 2009
I’m not a programmer so most of what I’ve read here is about as clear as mud. However, I downloaded your fix, inserted my Amazon access key and special word, and added my affiliate code in the set-up section within Word Press.
Then I tried to use the plugin to add Amazon products. It appeared to be working but then I didn’t get any products from my search, but I got this error instead:
>
Warning: parse_url() expects exactly 1 parameter, 2 given in /……/wp-content/plugins/amazon-reloaded-for-wordpress/Amazon-Reloaded.php on line 276
1D7WX0HFMVMBNTVZJX4ZAWS.MinimumParameterRequirementYour request should have atleast 1 of the following parameters: Signature, Timestamp.
>
Can you help me with this? Here is what lines 276-278 look like to me:
>
function sign_url( $url ){
$host = parse_url($url,PHP_URL_HOST);
$timestamp = gmstrftime(“%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.000Z”);
$url = $url . “&Timestamp=” . $timestamp;
>
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
September 30th, 2009
I tried everything, starting with the updated code and the hints I’ve found on http://www.cliqueclack.com but it doesn’t work for me in Germany. I think I’ve inserted probably something wrong or in the wrong way … but I can’t make it out on my own. So I’m hoping for an offical update soon.
October 2nd, 2009
@Sal and everybody – You’re in luck. I just released the new version which is awesome. You should grab it!
October 3rd, 2009
I’m seeing an error with the latest release that has to do with my not having DOM compiled into PHP5 (I see it was configured with –disable-dom for some reason):
Class ‘DOMDocument’ not found
And, of course, I don’t really have the capability on my server to recompile PHP5.
The old version still works with my changes, so I’ll stick with that for now. Just FYI in case you run into the error.
October 3rd, 2009
@Gudlyf – I’m so sorry that the new version didn’t work for you. I no longer wanted to process the returned XML on the client side (as it was pretty slow) so I moved the processing server side. Looks like that killed the plugin for you.
October 5th, 2009
Hey Nick, thanks again for the great plugin. I tried to upgrade today and when I try and activate the plugin I get this error message.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /homepages/15/d91758679/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/amazon-reloaded-for-wordpress/amazon-reloaded-for-wordpress.php on line 14
Any help on this? Thanks so much.
October 5th, 2009
@Brian – Are you running PHP4 or PHP5? This plugin requires PHP5 now.
October 5th, 2009
@Nick
That did it. My server was trying to run it under PHP4, and adding the line:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
to my .htaccess file fixed it right up. Thank you again!
October 6th, 2009
@Brian – Glad to hear it :)
November 26th, 2009
Hi Nick. I’m trying your latest version on a new server now and, though I’m certain I’m using the correct API and Secret keys, the ‘Test’ button reports they are generating an error or are incorrect.
Any clue how I can figure out what’s being reported back as that error? Thanks!
November 27th, 2009
@Gudlyf – Post a screenshot and I’ll try to check it out.
November 27th, 2009
hi
using a german amazon key (maybe this is helpful). my prob is: that the plugin does not show any URL of the amazon product. so i cant connect to amazon. the rest is fine.
thx 4 answering
November 27th, 2009
Here you go. I blotted out the codes for obvious reasons, but I assure you they are entered correctly.
http://i48.tinypic.com/s4tkt4.png
December 8th, 2009
Any guidance Nick?
December 8th, 2009
Nick — Disregard. I’m a dope and swapped the secret key and API keys around. Duh.
December 8th, 2009
@Gudly4 – Thank goodness. I felt bad because I didn’t get back to you, but I couldn’t figure out what could be going wrong on your end.
December 16th, 2009
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[No it isn't you stupid spam bot.]
January 28th, 2010
Hi,
Can anyone help me – I enter my 2 keys and affiliate ID, save them, and click ’save and test’. It tells me my details are correct and I should have no trouble searching for products, meanwhile my details have disappeared. I then go to ‘add new post’ and get this message: You have not yet set up your Amazon credentials. In order to search for products using the Amazon Reloaded for WordPress plugin, you should do so now.
I spent an hour entering and re-entering them, but to no avail!
Has anyone got any advice on what’s going wrong?
Thanks,
Mary
January 28th, 2010
@Mary I’ll take a look and let you know what I find.
January 29th, 2010
Great Nick, thanks. When you say you’ll take a look at it,
do you mean my site? If you need login details etc, drop me
an email.
Thanks again,
Mary
February 2nd, 2010
same happens with my server. I enter both keys but when I click save and check it fails.