Comments on: Amazon Wishlist Plugin Updated

By: Brian A. Thomas

Brian A. Thomas — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the cool plugin. Just a note that I modified it some myself so it would randomly pick my wishlist or my wife’s wishlist, allowing for two or more wishlists to be searched.
Odd bug seems to be that if an item doesn’t have an image, it doesn’t display the text either, I am not sure if that crept in with my modification or not.

By: Paolo

Paolo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I’m in the process of setting this up without much luck yet. I took a shot in the dark and input “ca” for Canada and placed all the relevant data for my own wishlist but not even a glimmer appears on my site to show that the plugin is even active.

I’m sure it’s something simple but my big question is this:
Do you have a support forum, section, area, or FAQ, where I can find some answers?

Thanks to you and the others that contributed for your efforts on this.

By: Daryl

Daryl — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Not sure this’ll work, but try going to about line 182 in the plugin. Look for the following code:

switch ($locale) {
case “uk”: $this->server .= “co.uk”; break;
case “us”: $this->server .= “com”; break;
default: $this->server .= “$locale”; break; // Untested!
}

And add a line after the “us” line that reads:

case “ca”: $this->server .= “ca”; break;

Then, in about line 36, change:

$aw_locale=’uk’;

$aw_locale=’ca’;

By: alistair

alistair — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Hi there, I seem to have done everything right but it is still not showing up. I have put in my developer tag and assoc id but nothing. Its a real sweet plugin if I can get it working….any ideas?

By: Chris McLaren

Chris McLaren — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Darryl, love the plugin, but I have noticed one small problem with it: what it generates is not valid XHTML, and even if that is corrected using the default placement at the end of categories hoses the XHTML of the main page.

The quick fix for the first problem is to alter the generated code to include alt tags for the image, and to close the IMG tag.

I have something like this:

$aw_html .= “\t\turl . “”>{$image_size} . “” alt=”Wishlist Image”/>
\n”;

The issue with default placement is that where the filter drops the wishlist stuff screws up the

hierarchy. There is probably a solution for this that involves conditionally wrapping the wishlist generated content in

tags depending on whether or not the automatic placement flag is set–I’ve got around this by manually placing the plugin tag in my index for now, which can get me to valid XHTML.

You can see both of these issues on Two Ells by just hitting the ‘valid xhtml’ link on your Meta menu.

By: Chris McLaren

Chris McLaren — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

That line of code, obviously, got mucked up by the translation to HTML.

It’s supposed to look like this:

$aw_html .= "\t\turl . "\">{$image_size} . "\" alt=\"Wishlist Image\"/>
\n";

Hopefully that will show up right, with the slashes

By: mikebober

mikebober — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

How can I link the wishlist items to my wishlist.
If someone buys me something they would need my shipping info.
My wishlist also wouldn’t remove the items purchased.

By: mikebober

mikebober — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Also. Can I use this script to pull a complete view of my wishlist? Instead of just the single item as packaged.

By: Daryl

Daryl — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I’m afraid this isn’t supported. You could hack the code pretty easily to add a link to your wishlist. Just scroll down to the bottom of the amazon_wishlist() function and look for the lines:

[php]

$aw_html .= “tn”;
$aw_html .= “n”;

[/php]

Add something like the following between the two lines:

[php]

$aw_html .= “view my wishlist“;
[/php]

By: mikebober

mikebober — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply. I just added a link. I’d love to see those features.