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Topic ID: 500
Message ID: 85
#85, RE: Mr. Rat Amazon Script Update Tips
Posted by Kurt on May-08-08 at 03:26 PM
In response to message #81
>I guess not many here using Mr. Rat's Amazon script, but I
>just updated from the "very" old version to the latest one,
>and thought it might help the people here who are using the
>older version of script, if any...
>
>It was much easier to update than I thought.
>
>It used to be all templates in the templates folder, but the
>latest version uses different folders, for ex:
>
>The Older: item_1.template, item_2.template,
>page_1.template, page_2.template, products_1.template,
>products_2.template, etc, etc,.
>
>The Latest: Just make a folder associate with; if you were
>using the item_1.template for the side bar, make folder for
>the side bar and rename:
>
>item_1.template to item.template and put it in the side bar
>folder and link to it:
>
>amazon.cgi?Operation=ItemSearch&SearchIndex=Books&Keywords=key+word&templates=sidebar&link_templates=fullpage&max_results=5
>
>You can still use the same variables in the templates, but
>the display variables are totally different:
>
>input_templates --> templates=sidebar
>
>input_link_templates --> link_templates=fullpage
>
>input_max=5 --> max_results=5


Thanks Yoshi...Actually, this is timely as I have a site that still uses Mr. Rat and I haven't updated it yet.