Title: Introducing WP-Amazon Plugin Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Introducing WP-Amazon Plugin * [rmanalan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rmanalan/) * (@rmanalan) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/) * Hi all. Just wanted to announce the availability of a new plugin I wrote, WP- Amazon. WP-Amazon brings the Amazon.com product catalog right into WordPress. This is the initial release, so, I’m interested in comments, suggestions, or any bugs you may find. Take a look: [http://manalang.com/archives/2004/06/23/wordpress-plugin-wp-amazon](http://manalang.com/archives/2004/06/23/wordpress-plugin-wp-amazon)– Rich Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 52 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/page/3/?output_format=md) [4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/page/4/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/page/2/?output_format=md) * [tcervo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tcervo/) * (@tcervo) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/#post-65914) * Can you post an example on your site (or just point to one that already exists) that shows what the result will be once an item is added? Also, is there a way to embed your Amazon Associates ID? Thanks… * [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/) * (@davidchait) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/#post-65916) * Rich – Interesting approach — much different from what CG-Amazon does (sidebar lists of products, product database, associates-linked), but still should find a lot of users who just want a product in a post, quickly, and your search function makes that easy. Cool idea, nice integration steps. -d [http://www.chait.net](http://www.chait.net) * Thread Starter [rmanalan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rmanalan/) * (@rmanalan) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/#post-66005) * tcervo, the output is one of the following: * Link to item with product name* Link to item with small size product image * Link to item with medium size product image * Link to item with large size product image The link is a standard hyperlink tag with a title attribute. If you choose a link with an image, the img tag is hyperlinked. Very basic. It’s just a quick and easy tool to allow you to embed amazon links to your entries. Yes, the plugin supports Amazon Associates IDs… you can read about how to change the ID in the README.txt. * [Tek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tek/) * (@tek) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/#post-66034) * THANK YOU! This was exactly what I was looking for and SO EASY TO INSTALL!!! Thanks! * [dss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dss/) * (@dss) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/#post-66041) * i’m having some trouble installing this plug. well, not really trouble installing it. it’s quite easy. i followed the instructions and get the following error:** Warning: file(/home/login/folder/dss//wp-content/plugins/wp-amazon-plugin.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/imperial/public_html/dss/wp- admin/plugins.php on line 94** **Warning: implode(): Bad arguments. in /home/ login/folder/dss/wp-admin/plugins.php on line 94** one thing i noticed is the double slash above… otherwise, it’s not working and i can’t see why. i have david chiat’s amazon plungin installed and that’s all. i’d like to get this working to see if i like it. any idea why it wouldn’t work? dss. * [somefool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/somefool/) * (@somefool) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/#post-66043) * Cheers, I like this. * [david](https://wordpress.org/support/users/david/) * (@david) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/#post-66044) * I get the following errors when searching. ` Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-amazon/nusoap.php on line 5489 Fatal error: Call to undefined function: keywordsearchrequest() in /var/www/wordpress/ wp-admin/wp-amazon/AmazonSearch.php on line 98 Anyone got any ideas on how to fixy? * Thread Starter [rmanalan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rmanalan/) * (@rmanalan) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/#post-66046) * dss, Make sure the files you uploaded are readable (i.e., 644 at least). – Rich * Thread Starter [rmanalan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rmanalan/) * (@rmanalan) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/#post-66047) * david, Are you getting that error all the time or only sometimes? What is your $Country variable set to (look in wp-amazon.php)? – Rich * [dss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dss/) * (@dss) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/#post-66048) * I’ll try it again. but i thought everything was R,W, X (777) for testing purposes. stranger… dss * [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/) * (@davidchait) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/#post-66051) * Rich – Just FYI – I used nusoap for a while for , until Amazon did their V3 upgrade… at which point it stopped working for me (all the undefined function stuff, as it couldn’t find the function decls). That’s when I went and rolled my own XML solution (and just rewrote the low-level parser to be my code instead of the PHP code, so I can control timeouts and actually deal with error codes!).- d * [david](https://wordpress.org/support/users/david/) * (@david) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/#post-66054) * $Country = ‘US’; Hey Rich. Yes, it does seem to be set. And I double checked all the permissions on installed files, set them all to 755. Funny that I can’t get this plugin or David Chaits up and running. I have a very well equipped, up to date debian install on my server, and don’t *usually* miss the libraries I might need to make these plugins work. Still, it’s possible. Any idea what I am missing? * Anonymous * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/#post-66063) * Wow! This is absolutely perfect — precisely what I needed! Thank you so much! * Thread Starter [rmanalan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rmanalan/) * (@rmanalan) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/#post-66064) * david, what version of php are you running on and on what platform? I haven’t tested on anything by linux running PHP 4.2+. It’s very possible that the nusoap library that I include with WP-Amazon is looking for something that’s not there. davidchiat, yeah… I hesitated to use the nusoap library, but in most cases, it seems to work fine. My plugin only makes uses the KeywordSearchRequest for all of its calls so, it’s not as complicated as CG-Amazon. If I more people report problems with it, I’ll switch over and write my own low level soap calls. – Rich * Anonymous * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/#post-66065) * This plugin breaks XHTML compliance currently on several points: 1) target=” _blank” bad. 2) it does not encode ampersands in titles into & Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 52 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/page/3/?output_format=md) [4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/page/4/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Introducing WP-Amazon Plugin’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [amazon](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/amazon/) * 52 replies * 25 participants * Last reply from: [Moodles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moodles/) * Last activity: [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-wp-amazon-plugin/page/4/#post-66268) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics