Amazon web services:
- There are 2 options, one where you just host images yourself, and the webservices version,
where the entire content comes from amazon.com - Problem: the iframe served is BIG and the URL is thus far difficult to parse
Give it up, you know you just want it in Blog: What I want is a special category “Amazon” for postings, with the “Excerpt” field containing an ASIN and the main body / maybe the extended body containing a review article.
- MTAmazon on MT-Plugins
- they talk about using MTMacros to make in-entry postings- this is probably what I’ll end up using
- MTAmazon on SourceForge
- Using MTAmazon
- Developer’s home page
- Psycho gaming dude and his use of MTAmazon
Those fucking bitches. Turns out this functionality was in here the entire time… it’s just wholly undocumented! The only way I found out about it was by looking through the perl code when I was planning on writing the new functionality myself!!! Okay here’s the deal:
- Suppose your search string (e.g. your Asin string for a particular book) will always be in one field in your MTEntry
- Make a listing of your entries using MTEntries, just like normal
- Now use MTAmazon within the entry. Except instead of filling out something in the “search” field,
use the attribute “related” instead - “related” can be:
- category
- title
- extended
- excerpt
- The MTAmazon tag will use that field in the list of entries for the search string, one per Amazon invocation
- So, in the case of a simple listing which only uses a search string from the blog entry,
with everything else being generated by MTAmazon, there will be NO MTEntry tags in your template code for this list!
Hey — found this post via the trackback on Brad’s site. I’ve got a tutorial on how to set up the overlib amazon list kidna like what you want I think — I use the MT Title as the ASIN, the body as the description and the extended entry for an additional url if needed. Anyway — you might find it useful.
http://www.silverberry.org/archives/000192.php