Hello Folks, I'm running Koha for a small collective of libraries and I'm considering turning on the Amazon content. Most of our users are likely to want to use Amazon.ca rather than Amazon.com and I'm wondering if anyone knows if we can use an Amazon.ca associate ID or does Koha only connect with amazon.com (therefore needing to use the amazon.com associate programme)? Thanks! Dwayne
Hello Folks,
I'm running Koha for a small collective of libraries and I'm considering turning on the Amazon content. Most of our users are likely to want to use Amazon.ca rather than Amazon.com and I'm wondering if anyone knows if we can use an Amazon.ca associate ID or does Koha only connect with amazon.com (therefore needing to use the amazon.com associate programme)? At the moment, this feature is hard-coded to use amazon.com, and for
Hi Dwayne, Great to meet you, and welcome to the community. Out of curiosity, which libraries are you running Koha for? Now to your question: On 11/25/07, Dwayne Collins <dcollins@prcsa.ca> wrote: the more advanced content (such as descriptions, reviews, ratings, you'll need to sign up with amazon's associate and developers programs (check the links in the system preferences). I'm not sure if Amazon.ca offers a similar service, if it does, let me know and I'd be happy to show you what you'd need to change to enable it. I'd also be happy to add an option for which TLD of amazon to use for an upcoming version of Koha. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS
Hi Joshua, Thanks for the welcome! The libraries I'm working with are actually what one could almost call "amateur" libraries - it's a collective of student-run libraries at Trent University in Peterborough, ON (http://www.sadleirhouse.ca/library/). We're using Koha to help promote the great resource collections various student libraries have since, without online presence before now, no one knew about them. Now back to the Amazon question... Amazon.ca refers web developers back to the amazon.com developers programme and sign-up process, so that half of the equation seems to be the same. I would be interested in investigating this further to customise the content better. I've activated the Amazon content for now to see how it works using the regular amazon.com devkey and an amazon.ca associateID. It looks to me as though it is ignoring the latter completely and not registering it. Any ideas on how to move things over to the Canadian site given all of this? Thanks a lot, Dwayne Joshua Ferraro wrote:
Hi Dwayne,
Great to meet you, and welcome to the community. Out of curiosity, which libraries are you running Koha for? Now to your question:
On 11/25/07, Dwayne Collins <dcollins@prcsa.ca> wrote:
Hello Folks,
I'm running Koha for a small collective of libraries and I'm considering turning on the Amazon content. Most of our users are likely to want to use Amazon.ca rather than Amazon.com and I'm wondering if anyone knows if we can use an Amazon.ca associate ID or does Koha only connect with amazon.com (therefore needing to use the amazon.com associate programme)?
At the moment, this feature is hard-coded to use amazon.com, and for the more advanced content (such as descriptions, reviews, ratings, you'll need to sign up with amazon's associate and developers programs (check the links in the system preferences). I'm not sure if Amazon.ca offers a similar service, if it does, let me know and I'd be happy to show you what you'd need to change to enable it. I'd also be happy to add an option for which TLD of amazon to use for an upcoming version of Koha.
Cheers,
Now back to the Amazon question...
Amazon.ca refers web developers back to the amazon.com developers programme and sign-up process, so that half of the equation seems to be the same. I would be interested in investigating this further to customise the content better. I've activated the Amazon content for now to see how it works using the regular amazon.com devkey and an amazon.ca associateID. It looks to me as though it is ignoring the latter completely and not registering it. Any ideas on how to move things over to the Canadian site given all of this? I've just pushed up a patch to the 3.0 repository that allows you to select
Hey Dwayne, Just an update on this ... On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 6:30 PM, Dwayne Collins <dcollins@prcsa.ca> wrote: the locale of the Amazon site you want to pull this content from. The selection happens within systempreferences using a new preference called AmazonLocale. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE CEO migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS
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