OpenTutorial:Amazon-Linker
This extension provides an easy way to insert Amazon.com product links into your wiki pages making it simple to monetize your wikis
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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
See It In Action
The following ASINs are generated by this extension
- {{#ASIN:B000MU82WG}}
- {{#ASIN:B0009FIS3M}}
- {{#ASIN:B00022PTRU}}
All that was entered onto this wiki page was the following
* {{#ASIN:B000MU82WG}} * {{#ASIN:B0009FIS3M}} * {{#ASIN:B00022PTRU}}
Usage
{{#ASIN:B001EUBSL0}}
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}}
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
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 </body> tag:
<!-- ************************* BEGIN AMAZON ENHANCED LINK SCRIPT ****************** --> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/s/link-enhancer?tag=tsickist-20&o=1"> </script> <noscript> <img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/s/noscript?tag=tsickist-20" alt="" /> <!-- ************************* END AMAZON ENHANCED LINK SCRIPT ****************** -->
External Links
- MediaWiki.org's page for this extension
- Google Code's Download page for this extension