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27 Comment for “Amazon Media Manager 1.5”

1. mark Said this on August 8th, 2005 at 2117

   Just got the new version installed and it looks great. Keep up the good work!

2. Shawn Said this on August 8th, 2005 at 2316

   I have it up and running in my sidebar. It worked great. It’s the best plugin I have seen for this particular purpose. Thanks!

3. vamsi Said this on August 9th, 2005 at 0937

   deny, you need to help me fix the plugin in my site.
   I have installed it and added a book and want that book to be displayed in the right panel.

   Now what code do i write in the sidebar.php to call the AMM?

   You can mail me back at vamsi (at) gangavalli.com

   Will be waiting…

4. vamsi Said this on August 9th, 2005 at 1016

   ok, now i am using this:
   amm_getMedia('amm_default_output',3,AMM_BOOKS,AMM_DATE_DESC,AMM_RATING_ALL);
   the title of the book is displayed in the same line of the book image, how do i bring it to the next line?

5. Denyerec Said this on August 9th, 2005 at 1049

   You need to edit the amm_default_output template function in amm_extras.php or, ideally, create a new function of your own. All this is described in Editing AMM Templates

6. Zoomer Said this on August 9th, 2005 at 1330

   I dont actually use this but going over and checking the new look to the suzo site was fun, the site looks great and seems like you doing work which is good to.

7. Gabby Said this on August 9th, 2005 at 1605

   Ah, this plugin rocks… and Den is also great with help and support. Thanks so much!

8. mark Said this on August 9th, 2005 at 1729

   I just found a small bug in amm_extras.php. In the amm_default_output function, you’ve got:
   <li><?=$amm->imageLink();?></br>

   But it should be:
   <li><?=$amm->imageLink();?><br />

9. Andrew Said this on August 15th, 2005 at 2251

   Gabby, I really like your implementation of amm in the sidebar. I have to confess I’m new to all this, and I’ve tried to follow the documentation without success. Installed OK, but no further. Any chance you/someone could tell me how to do it in a really really simple way please, without assuming prior knowledge? Many thanks, Andrew

10. Gabby Said this on August 16th, 2005 at 1537

    Andrew, Sure, I’d be glad to try to help you out… if you’d like you can e-mail me (gabster12@gmail.com), or better yet IM me. I use AIM – prdygrl103 is the username. A good time is at night, around 9pm EST. I’m usually home by then…

11. Andy Said this on August 17th, 2005 at 1856

    there’s also a minor spelling mistake in amm.php. line 1069 should read Descriptions not Descriotions.

12. Keih Said this on October 27th, 2005 at 0541

    I’d really like to use this option on my wordpress blog but I am no techie 😐
    I’ve followed the documentation like Andrew and I was wondering if I can get a little help too! I got everything installed but I’m stuck at the template editing and the amm stuff – it’s kinda confusing. Thx -Keith

13. Denyerec Said this on October 27th, 2005 at 1503

    I will be writing a short and more friendly tutorial based around two issues, firstly creating a basic sidebar listing, and secondly creating a “Latest Book Review” style page entry.
    However, I also need to make rent, so these will be in the pipeline until I can spare some time to write ’em!

14. Jess Siglow Said this on November 8th, 2005 at 0134

    Hi there, this plug-in looks great, but I can’t seem to get it to work. I edited the ammextras.php file with the example code (“myfirst_go” template) and added this to a test post:

    I also added the direct call into my sidebar to see how that would look, like this:

    Both gave this result: “Template ammmyfirst_go could not be found. View HTML source for details.”

    I don’t get it: am I missing something? Thanks in advance, I look forward to this working! -Jess

15. Amazon Web Shop Said this on February 17th, 2006 at 2155

    I’ve been searching for a way to get Amazon products in my wordpress blog. Sweet.

16. Amelia Said this on March 31st, 2006 at 0204

    Thanks for the plugin I got it working (finally) and it’s great 😀

17. Mathias Klang Said this on May 28th, 2006 at 0858

    Very nice! It lets me have a booklist in my sidebar – just what I wanted. But I want to remove the rating line… Any tips?

18. Lee Said this on August 9th, 2006 at 0410

    I cant seem to get the images to work and Ive tried all sort of configurations. Even just the obvious one of taking the code within amm_extras and reusing it but my browsers stalls when it tries to load the page.
    Without the image call it works fine…

    any tips..? Im pulling my hair out trying to work it out.

    Sorry to bother.

19. Denyerec Said this on August 11th, 2006 at 1500

    There is a safety check that sometimes fails on certain eclectic server configurations. Look in the file amm_output.php and scroll down to line 604.

    If you now comment out 604 through 607 inclusive by adding // to the start of each line and then upload the modified file, you should be back in business. It’s to do with the image filesize command not being allowed to execute on remote images I think.

20. Mukund Said this on August 19th, 2006 at 0307

    I’m redesigning my website and this plugin is brilliant. Thank you so much for the great work. I did run into some problems, since I wasn’t familiar with PHP, but it’s all okay now. A very powerful plugin.

    I have one request, though – in the next version, we should be able to specify our own image link instead of choosing from Amazon’s. The images from Amazon are too small, and I’d gladly host my own images if they were at least 100px wide.

    Currently, I’m specifying the path for my own image under ‘userComments()’ as a workaround.

    But great work!

21. Denyerec Said this on August 19th, 2006 at 1115

    I think you have overlooked one of the features of AMM, which is the ability to recover the fullsize images from Amazon…

    http://sozu.co.uk/software/amm/function_reference.php

    Refer there and search the page for the functions autoImage() and imageLink()

    They both allow you to stipulate a size (From 3 presets, or pixels) for the image you wish to present.

22. Greg Kaufman Said this on November 27th, 2006 at 0714

    Is there a specific Role that a User needs to be set at to be able to access the AMM management interface from the Manage navigation in WordPress? I would like to allow a User of Role “Author” to be able to manage AMM using their login. Only the Administrator has access to Manage–>AMM right now, which doesn’t allow other users with lower Role levels to manage the AMM content.

    I have the Role Manager (v1.3) plugin installed, which allows for more granular User capability configurations.

    Any thoughts?

    BTW, I have AMM 1.5 successfully installed and running on a client Web site, with users enjoying the functionality greatly. I made a few modifications to the PHP code to allow for output sorting per function by using the Brand function attribute. This effectively allows for subcategories — and using the Moo.fx Accordian with multiple amm_getMedia functions on a single page allows for a highly organized and usable interface (all of which degrades gracefully without JavaScript enabled).

    thanks!

23. paul Said this on June 30th, 2007 at 1945

    Hi,

    I have just installed AMM, but when I go into Manage/AMM
    I get the following errors at the top of the page:

    WordPress database error: [Table ‘joben1wpi1.wpamm’ doesn’t exist]
    SELECT DISTINCT ammproductGroup FROM wpamm ORDER BY amm_productGroup;

    WordPress database error: [Table ‘joben1wpi1.wpamm’ doesn’t exist]
    SELECT COUNT(*) AS Num FROM wp_amm;

    WordPress database error: [Table ‘joben1wpi1.wpamm’ doesn’t exist]
    SELECT ammitemId, ammtitle, ammdateadded, ammrating, ammproductGroup FROM wpamm ORDER BY amm_dateadded DESC LIMIT 0, 5;

    Please help.

    Regards
    Paul

24. soyuz Said this on November 7th, 2007 at 0657

    hi,

    i’m playing around with AMM and it’s great. thanks a lot. but i have problem similar with paul.
    so should i make the table manually from phpmyadmin?

25. Michael Said this on November 9th, 2007 at 0802

    @Paul
    @soyuz

    I did the table creation manually, and things are working OK.

    I didn’t hack into the plugin code to see why the table creation code wasn’t firing, but I would guess that it needs to be updated… I am running php 5 and sql 4.1

26. Brian Said this on January 7th, 2008 at 1513

    in WP 2.?.? I found I needed to create table manuall. The mySQL code to do so is as follows.

    
CREATE TABLE wpamm (
ammitemId bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL autoincrement,
ammauthor varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',
ammdirector varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',
ammtitle varchar(200) NOT NULL default '',
ammasin varchar(32) NOT NULL default '',
ammproductGroup varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',
ammpublisher varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',
ammartist varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',
ammlabel varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',
ammmanufacturer varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',
ammmodel varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',
ammbrand varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',
ammuserComments text NOT NULL,
ammrating smallint(10) NOT NULL default '0',
ammcountry varchar(8) NOT NULL default '',
ammdateadded datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
ammsmallImageURL varchar(200) NOT NULL default '',
PRIMARY KEY (ammitemId)
)


27. Brian Said this on January 21st, 2008 at 0529

    What I am trying to do now is create links within my blog posts to go to my aStore, NOT Amazon proper.

    I searched some of your code and made the following changes
    
//Your code
//http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560976144/denyersphotog-21/
return 'http://www.amazon' . $ext . '/exec/obidos/ASIN/' . $this->currentItem['amm_asin'] . '/' . $this->affiliate . '/';

    //My changes
    //http://astore.amazon.com/handyguys-20/detail/B0001X21RG
    return 'http://astore.amazon' .$ext . '/' . $this->affiliate .'/detail/' . $this->currentItem['amm_asin'] ;

    I haven’t done much yet with my template but this shows a correct URL
    

    totalItems(); $x++ ) :?>

        <strong>Title: </strong>    <?php echo $amm->title();?> <br />
        <strong>Author: </strong> <?php echo $amm->author();?><br />
        <strong>URL: </strong> <?php echo $amm->url();?><br />
    
    <?php $amm->nextItem(); endfor; ?>
    
    <?php return $content;
    }
    

    ?>

    So far so good!
    Now – What I would like to do is be able to easily provide just links in my blog to my astore using simple code.
    How do I make text links to the URL?

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