Content Management
MTAmazon Sample Templates
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9 Aug 2002
There’s been several requests for some sample templates for MTAmazon. Here are a few templates that will help you understand some of your different formatting and search options.
Simple list
If you want your list to look like this...
[removed, due to Amazon API change]
... you can use the following template:
<MTAmazon search="usability" devtoken="DMRKTBU9F2P28" lastn="3">
<p><a href="<MTAmazonLink>">
<img src="<MTAmazonSmallImage>" align="left" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" /><MTAmazonTitle>
</a><br />
<span class="small">By <MTAmazonAuthor></span><br />
List Price: <span class="listprice"><MTAmazonListPrice></span><br />
Sale Price: <span class="saleprice"><MTAmazonSalePrice></span><br />
Published <MTAmazonReleaseDate format="%B %e, %Y"><br clear="all" /></p>
</MTAmazon>
Shopping Cart Links
You can also add a button to your product display that allows your readers to add an item directly to their Amazon.com shopping cart...
[removed, due to Amazon API change]
... by using this template ...
<MTAmazon search="B00003CWT6" method="Asin" devtoken="XXXXXXXXXX" lastn="1"> <img src="<MTAmazonMediumImage>" align="left" border="0" hspace="5" /> <b><MTAmazonTitle></b><br /> <MTAmazonManufacturer> <p>Amazon Price: <b><MTAmazonSalePrice></b></p> <form method="POST" action="http://www.amazon.com/o/dt/assoc/handle-buy-box=<MTAmazonASIN>"> <input type="hidden" name="asin.<MTAmazonASIN>" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="tag-value" value="<MTAmazonAssociateID>"> <input type="hidden" name="tag_value" value="<MTAmazonAssociateID>"> <input type="hidden" name="dev-tag-value" value="<MTAmazonDevToken>"> <input type="submit" name="submit.add-to-cart" value="Buy From Amazon.com"> </form><br clear="all" /></MTAmazon>
Browsing for Products
You can display items as they appear on Amazon’s catalog pages by using a BrowseNode search...
[removed, due to Amazon API change]
... using this template:
<MTAmazon search="499058" devtoken="XXXXXXXXXXX" method="BrowseNode" line="photo" lastn="3">
<p><a href="<MTAmazonLink>"><b><MTAmazonTitle></b><br />
<img src="<MTAmazonSmallImage>" align="left" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" />
</a>
List Price: <span class="listprice"><MTAmazonListPrice></span><br />
Sale Price: <span class="saleprice"><MTAmazonSalePrice></span><br clear="all" /></p>
</MTAmazon>
Yours?
Do you have an interesting way to use MTAmazon? Give us a URL of your site below and tell us what your template looks like. Remember to change all < to < and all > to > if you copy your MTAmazon template into your comment.