Hi, newbie to PT here. It's looking pretty good so far too I should say :-)
However, searching around the forums it seems it's not so easy to include Amazon in the product results.
What's the best approach please, starting with a clean sheet, for a niche price comparison site? I would like to list Amazon in the main price results with the other merchants.
Thanks in advance of your help.
Simon
Hi Dave
I think I know the thread you are talking about as I found how to do the supplemental results.
But this is a niche site with only 20-30 products so SKU's should not be a problem. So yes please - point me in the right direction to get the Amazon results in the correct place of the prices table :-)
Thanks
Simon
Hi Simon,
The first thing to do is to implement Amazon results on the products page as per the instructions in the main API thread. This will get you set-up with a working amazon.php with your web services / associates account all in place.
Next, you need to complement your site with SKU values. Firstly, following the instructions in the following thread to add a new "sku" field to your site, so that you can register a field containing the sku on Feed Registration (Step 2), and the new field is imported (so in your case, you will add field_sku to the feeds table, and sku to the products table):
http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/3094
With all that in place, if you could then email me your products.php, html/prices.php and amazon.php I'll make the changes required to incorporate the Amazon result by SKU lookup (if exists) into the prices table for you...
Cheers,
David.
Hi Simon,
The starting point would be to integrate Amazon results via the API where required (search results and/or product page) from the instructions in the following thread:
The reason is generally best not to integrate directly into the results themselves is that unless you have EAN/SKU values available to you, it is not possible to guarantee that any particular result returned via the Amazon API is actually the same product featured on the page. For that reason, I would suggest leaving them as supplemental results, however if you do have SKUs available, there are mods to incorporate an Amazon result into the correct place in the prices table, so let me know if that might be an option for you and i'll point you in the right direction...
Cheers,
David.