Hi David
I am just after a little advice.
I would like to display one amazon result within the same table where all of the other price comparisons are showing. Currently, the Amazon results appear below the price comparison table, but I would like to integrate seamlessly just one Amazon result into the price comparison table.
To make it a little clearer, under 'stockist' in the table it would say Amazon, it would then automatically suggest a product, and then display the price on the right.
I hope that makes sense, and any help appreciated.
Thanks
Andrew
Hi Andrew,
Using the basic Amazon script there is no guarantee that any of the products are identical to the product being compared; since it is only a keyword lookup however what some users have implemented is to look for an Amazon result that does have exactly the same name as the product being compared, and if so, then incorporate that result into the price comparison table. If you'd like to try that implementation; if you could email me your working amazon.php and also products.php I'll make the changes for you.
A more comprehensive solution that you may have read about on the forum is to add an additional parameter to Product Mapping through which you can record an Amazon ASIN value (Amazon's unique product IDs) and use this to query the API which is then guaranteed to return the product being compared; however bear in mind that this requires you to manage the database for all products so only really suitable for use on niche installations...
Cheers,
David.
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