Would be nice to search more than just books; many blogs review CDs, DVDs, etc. I have disabled this module until it can utilize all of Amazon's functionality. My previous blog with Wordpress had such a tool (http://www.sozu.co.uk/software/amm/), which worked brilliantly. I will be working out how to use that with Drupal until someone can update this module or I can learn the necessary code myself.

Seems this module should be combined with the Amazon Search module, rather than have two tools whose functionality overlaps...

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solipsist commented

Not hard, you will have to find the products yourself and then copy the ASINs manually and create amazon-items for them. It's what I've done. You also need to edit some SQL queries and add ' for ASINs as some items' ASINs (those that aren't books), contain characters and not just digits if you wish them to show in the block and as related to a node.

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lias commented
Title: Would be nice to search more than just books » Will Amazon Tools search for CDs, DVDs be implemented anytime soon?

Hi, I agree with euchrid9, until the capability for more items is added this limits the usefulness of this module. Although I do think it's a nice feature to have books, but I think adding data manually is not so good.
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jgavin commented
Version: 4.6.x-1.x-dev » 4.7.x-1.x-dev

I would really like to see more features put into the Amazon Tools Module. I came across this site:
http://ebiz-u.com/style001.htm

I dont know what its running, but i would love to be able to have all those features added to Drupal

heres more examples:
http://ebiz-u.com/examples.htm#types

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llyra commented

I agree with the original poster. I sell books, music and movies so I have to disable this mod as it won't work for me as is (plus I have two amazon accounts due to US/UK purchases). This is a great mod, hopefully it can be more useful for my needs in the future!

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MrRat commented

ebiz-u is using Amazon Products Feed
http://www.mrrat.com/aws/

there is a Joomla mod for it but i haven't seen anything for Drupal

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OFR-1 commented

agreed, indubitably indubitably. i really hope this can be done. . . would be a huge huge virtue. solipsist's suggestion re modification is helpful, but for those of us who hesitate to tamper directly with our code, can someone supply a rewritten module to include the SQL queries appropriately?

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Prometheus6 commented

Big change for the 5.x compatible version. The amazon_init.inc file has been replaced by a file specific to each Amazon.com store, i.e. amazon_US.inc for the US store, amazon_CA.inc for the Canadian store, etc.

This let me rearrange the files so that it's simpler to add product types to searches. It is not documented yet, but all of them have DVD and music searches and import now,

Database changes will be needed because I'll have no real idea which products folks will add and therefore no idea what fields are available in any given installation. What I will probably do is save the whole response from Amazon.com to a single field.

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Prometheus6 commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)
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MGParisi commented
Status: Closed (works as designed) » Closed (fixed)

feature available to 5.X users... 4.7 is no longer supported