Extension:Amazon-Linker

Notice
This extension currently doesn't work due to Amazon's Product Advertising API Authentication policy change. Product Advertising API

I am current rewriting this extension and I should have a working version in a week or so. The good news is that I the new version I'm working on will be much easier to use. (hopefully) --Hapa 05:34, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Inspiration
Inspiration for this extension was the ISBN feature that MediaWiki has. I wanted to use it to monetize my Wiki so I made a hack to the parser.php

While this worked it became a pain to maintain as I had to rehack the parser.php file every time I upgraded my wiki.

So I made this extension.

Please leave me feedback on my talk page User_talk:Hapa

Enjoy.

What can this extension do?
This extension provides an easy way to insert Amazon.com product links into your wiki pages making it simple to monetize your wikis

Notes on Current Design - Circa March 2011
The BookSources page on a standard MediaWiki v1.16.2 displays Amazon Books correctly only if the ISBN-10 (1847198201) number is given and is expected to go for example to: http://www.amazon.com/CMS-Made-Simple-1-6-Beginners/dp/1847198201 The same book's ISBN-13 (978-1847198204) number errors out but should actually go to: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?search-alias=stripbooks&field-isbn=9781847198204 This is only a search page that displays the book in summary form unlike the latter which displays it in detail form.

See It In Action
You can see this in action on my wiki http://www.opentutorial.com/Make_fire_text_using_photoshop#Amazon.27s_Related_Products

Usage
Where "B001EUBSL0" can be any Amazon.com product number

This will automatically lookup the ASIN using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and return the following to your wiki page:

ASIN B001EUBSL0 Adobe Photoshop CS4

The link generated will include your own Amazon.com Associates ID number allowing you to get credit if a user purchases the product, or any other product on Amazon.com

Customizable Templates
The extension also provides for customizable output via a rudimentary templating system. Allowing for greater flexibility.

The templates can pull the following variables from Amazon.
 * %alink%
 * This is the link to the product which includes your associates tag.
 * %ASIN%
 * This is Amazon.com's unique product number for the item.
 * %name%
 * The name of the product.
 * %Manufacturer%
 * The manufacturer of the product
 * %Price%
 * Amazon's current price for the item.

Download instructions
Get the code from Google Code Here

Installation
Unzip the contents of the zip file to a directory titled "Amazon-Linker" in your extenstions directory

Read the readme.txt file contained in the zip file for instructions on how to install this extension

Configuration parameters
Read the readme.txt file

Amazon.com Infoboxes
If you would like to have the Amazon.com infoboxes like the ones seen on http://www.opentutorial.com/Make_fire_text_using_photoshop#Amazon.27s_Related_Products

Place the following code at the end of your skin php file just before the tag:

 