Oops, missed that a new version came out while I was on vacation.

Playing with it now, and a couple of questions have come up:

1) Is ‘locale’ now a variable that can be used in the exp:eez_amazon:detail tag, to indicate which ID that should be pulled from the array?

2) Is it possible to tweak the link generated by the {amazon_link} variable to use ref=nosim to go straight to the main page for a book?

As an example, links generated by the old plugin would look like this:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/<ISBN>/<ID>/ref=nosim/

whereas the module links look like this (err, with some encoding weirdness due to percentage signs in there):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ASIN=<ISBN>&tag=<ID>&lcode=xm2&cID=2025&ccmID=165953&location=/o/ASIN/<ISBN>%3FSubscriptionId=1F9MP7F50K45NNPVYR82

Not sure what all the elements of the link do, but it seems like it might be possible to compress it some?

3) What’s $KeyId? The developer’s token, or whatever they call it these days?

In regards to the links generated, I poked around Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uks associate discussion boards a bit today, and it seems their suggestions for links that go straight to the product page (without including similar items) are the following:

1) Amazon.com suggests:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/<ISBN>/<Associate ID>/ref=nosim

OR

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/<ISBN>/ref=nosim/<Associate ID>

OR (the latter is apparently a new format, but the old ones will work as well)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/<ISBN>/ref=nosim/?tag=<Associate ID>

2) Amazon.co.uk suggests:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/<ISBN>/<Associate ID>/ref=nosim

Yea- the ref=nosim should definitely be a variable.  Right now, I’ve got a global setting for whether that’s the way the link is generated- which I won’t swear works, because once the version that allowed templating the ‘publish’ page interface went up I decided it should be a regular variable.  Something like {link_nosim} and {link} - basically allow folks to do it however.

I’ve got a slightly newer version that’s not up yet that does that- and addresses one of the bugs someone else has reported.  But I think there’s still one more bug that needs fixing.  And I’m smack in the middle of something that’s sucking up all my time so I haven’t gotten back to it.

But next version will definitely allow nosim links- as a regular variable both for the publish interface and the regular template side tag versions.  The locale bit is also coming- mostly what’s slowing it down is figuring out how to let folks set the variables- since you need a different affiliate id for each location.

Hee!  I was so going to work on this on my two days off last week and I SO didn’t!  But yep- this is on my ‘to do’ list and about half of it is done.  I’ll try for hitting it again this weekend.  I’d really like to get it up live on one of my sites- which is always incentive to bug fix!

I’ve got a little live test of it running, actually. I’ve got a section in a sidebar that blends your module with the link list module, to pull from a list of forthcoming titles and produce a random selection of these. Seems to work just fine. Oh, and using the locale variable actually seems to work.