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Using Drupal:

I am working my way through chapter 4 of "Using Drupal" with Drupal 6.13 and Amazon API 6.x 1.0 beta7, and have gotten stuck at configuring Amazon API. Figure 4-5 in the book shows "Amazon locale", "Amazon referral settings", "Your associate ID", and "Amazon API key" fields, but Home › Administer › Site configuration > Amazon API shows the first three and then "Amazon AWS Access Key ID" and "Amazon AWS Secret Access Key". I have tried various combinations of "Amazon referral settings" and the values printed in the book ("drupal-20" and "0CD9RCSD22JDH5DFD99") without any luck.

I am not inclined to agree to a 17 page contract with Amazon to complete the exercise.

Does anybody know the new Drupal Association field values to get this working?

TIA,

David

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asb commented

Hi David,

at ./admin/settings/amazon/api you'll see a pulldown menu labeled "Amazon referral settings"; there you can choose to "Use the Drupal Association's associate ID". Probably you won't be able to access Amazon data because they require a "Secret Access Key" since mid of August (the book is older and using an even older beta version of this module). Probably you won't get the "Secret Access Key" of the Drupal Association, and most likely it won't be published publicly - that's the point of a secret key. So you might simply not be able to complete the exercise without fully registering for Amazon AWS. That's neither O'Reilly's nor Jeff's fault, Amazon simply changed the rules of the game quite suddenly.

However, you could change this issue from a "support request" to a "feature request", if you would like to see this data embedded into the module (maybe the "Secret Access Key" could be encrypted somehow?)

Good luck & greetings, -asb

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rfay
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Unfortunately, there is no way to use the Amazon module anymore (After August 15) since Amazon started requiring a secret key. See #465516: AAWS "Request Authentication" must be implemented by August 15, 2009. There's nothing we can do from this end.

But it's not that you have to sign up for the Amazon Associates program. You just have to sign up for Amazon Web Services and get a set of keys. Nothing else.