Amazon module...where are the instructions?

Posted by paulgibbs on December 28, 2008 at 12:42am

In my Drupal 5 installation, I had created a bunch of posts for course textbooks using Amazon tools. When I upgraded to Drupal 6 and reinstalled the Amazon tools, I don't see any place to create new content like I did in the prior version.

Anyone know where I could get instructions on how to use this module? There are no instructions or how-tos or anything of that nature listed on the module homepage. Am I looking in the wrong place? Everyone in the help for that module seems to know how it works--how did they find out?

Thank you!

Comments

Have you looked at the

Posted by dhaven on December 28, 2008 at 3:24am

Have you looked at the INSTALL.txt or README.txt in the module folder? All modules have their instructions packaged that way. The interface in admin is a simple guide.

Yes

Posted by ka0osk on January 24, 2009 at 3:22am

Nothing there of any use. This documentation HAS to be SOMEWHERE... right? Several people are having the no docs problem.

Nothing

Posted by paulgibbs on January 26, 2009 at 4:42am

As you can see from the following, there's absolutely nothing in here on usage for someone who's new to the module (thankfully, superdave answered my question):

Amazon.module API Documentation
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The Amazon package gives Drupal based web sites access to the core features of the Amazon Associates Web Services. The package provides several components:

1) A core API module that communicates with Amazon's web services and adds support for retrieving, displaying, and storing basic product information in Drupal as well as associating Amazon products with content nodes. [Views integration is still in progress, pending the completion of Views 2 for Drupal 6.]
2) A field type (and an accompanying set of formatters) for CCK that allows Amazon products to be explicitly added to any node type. [This portion of the package is still in progress, pending the completion of CCK for Drupal 6.]
3) An 'Amazon Media' module that adds support for Amazon's extended product information for several common product types (Books, Music, DVDs, and Software).
4) An 'Amazon Search' module that allows developers to conduct API-driven searches of the Amazon product database. This module also allows users to search Amazon's product database from Drupal's Advanced Search page.

Most users and site builders will want to enable the basic Amazon API module, as well as the Amazon Field and Amazon Media modules. These provide the functionality that the majority of simple sites need.

Amazon API conventions
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- All element keys are lowercased for consistency
- The Amazon ItemAttributes collection is merged into the top level of the Drupal entity for simplicity.
- Information outside the 'common' ItemAttributes, Product Images, and Artist/Author/Etc. data must be handled by external third-party modules.
- Authors, Directors, and other creator information is stored in the generic $item['participants'] array. It's a crummy name, but until I come up with something better it'll have to do. A separate array for each participant type is also created.