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PHP Code: Call to Amazon.com Web Service with fopen(); phpGetAmazon()

function phpGetAmazon($ASIN){

$amazonAffiliateTag = '';
    $amazonURI = '';
    $filePointer = false;
    $HTML = '';
    $index = '';
    $key = '';
    $stream = '';
    $streamline = '';
    //This URI seems to work for books as well:
    $uri = "http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/"
        . "{$ASIN}/ref=nosim/{$amazonAffiliateTag}";
    $values = '';

/*
        Amazon.com refers to this search as
        a "light" ASIN and ISBN search.
        Up to 30 ASIN's can be used
        in the light search but this function
        currently returns only one product per call.
    */

//Protocol, domain, path and start of query string:
    $amazonURI = 'http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml3?';

/*
        Associate ID (replaces the
        "webservices-20" tag in examples) and Developer ID:
    */
    $amazonURI .= "t={$amazonAffiliateTag}&dev-t=999";

//ASIN specifier:
    $amazonURI .= "&AsinSearch=" . $ASIN;

//Specify light search type and XML format:
    $amazonURI .= '&type=lite&f=xml';

//Call web service.
    $filePointer = @fopen($amazonURI,'r'); 
    if($filePointer){
        //xmldom stuff:
        //return phpGetAmazonXML($stream);

while($streamline = fgets($filePointer,4096)) $stream .= $streamline;
        fclose($filePointer);

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create(); 
        xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser,XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING,0);
        xml_parse_into_struct($xml_parser,$stream,$values,$index); 
        xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

foreach ($index as $key=>$val) {
            switch ($key) {
                case 'ImageUrlMedium':
                    $imageURL = $values[$val[0]]['value'];
                break;

case 'OurPrice':
                    $ourPrice = $values[$val[0]]['value'];
                break;

case 'ProductName':
                    $productName = $values[$val[0]]['value'];
                break;
            }
        }
        //Add name of product:
        $HTML = "<br><small><a class=\"amazonLink\" "
            . "href=\"{$uri}\" target=\"_blank\">{$productName}</a></small>";
        //Add image:
        $HTML = "<a class=\"amazonLink\" href=\"{$uri}\" "
            . "target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"main\" "
            . "alt=\"Support this web site!\" border=\"8\" "
            . "src=\"{$imageURL}\"></a>\n" . $HTML;

return $HTML;

} else return 'Web Service call failed.';
}

This document was last reviewed on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 at 07:59 PM PDT.

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PHP Code: Call to Amazon.com Web Service with fopen(); phpGetAmazon()

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