NEW! Amazon Media Manager 1.5 (*Finally!*)

Is it even possible to display a products page versus the template sidebar? Can this or any other amazon related plugin be put on a page (using pages)?

I’ve listed products on a separate page using CG-Amazon. I just copied the page template and labeled it “media” and then put the code under the page content area.

I am a word press beginner, I am a little confused. I thought I had followed the directions correctly. I inserted this

<?php
function amm_my_first_go($amm){
?>
<?php for ($x = 0; $x < $amm->totalItems(); $x++ ) :?>

<strong>Title: </strong> <?php echo $amm->title();?>
<strong>Author: </strong> <?php echo $amm->author();?>

<?php $amm->nextItem(); endfor; ?>

<?php
return $content;
}
?>

at the bottom of “amm_extras.php”.
I then inserted this
<?php amm_getMedia('amm_my_fist_go',10); ?>
at the bottom of sidebar.php.</p
It is coming back with this error

“Fatal error: Call to undefined function: amm_my_fist_go() in ../wp-content/plugins/amm/amm_output.php on line 137”

I am confused, should I have modified amm_output.php? I am only modifying amm_extras.php, correct? Can anyone let me see thier modified amm_extras.php file?

Thank you in advance for yout time and help

Debwire, I don’t care for using a specific product thread and “plugin” another product, so though I now use CG-Amazon, I see no reason why you couldn’t do the same with this plugin. If it will run in a sidebar, it will run in a page template (someone will now come up with an exception ;-). With the use of CG-Quickphp (or similar plugin) and a little work, you might even get it to run in a page post.

I’ll ‘plugin’ CG-Amazon myself… ?? But yes, something like CG-QuickPHP is a good way to embed complex calls to AMM or CG-Amazon. Note that CG-Amazon comes with cgaindex.php, a sample index file for both full-database paged listings AND individual product page listings, made to be theme-integrated, and ALSO is packed up with CG-Inline, which allows you to embed any product within a page or post with just <!--amazon:SOMEASIN-->.

But I agree with Beel, without knowing more about AMM, I’d assume you could make a custom page template, or use RunPHP or CG-QuickPHP to embed something into a post or page.

-d
(BTW, folks looking to see CG-Amazon in action, it’s sprinkled all over CHAITGEAR, obviously… ?? )

I’ve been a long time user of WordPress 1.2 and Amazon Media Manager 1.0. I am getting ready to upgrade WordPress to the latest version and I want to make sure my Amazon stuff carries over too, so I’m also planning to upgrade to AMM 1.5. I know the ropes on upgrading WP because I’ve just completed it on another blog that doesn’t have AMM.

The documentation for upgrading AMM is a little unclear (I understand that you’ve just released this, so I’m not trying to be critical when I say that…), but I’m not sure which files I’ll have to delete before upgrading? Do I upload the contents of the upgrade zip and the 1.5 zip, or just the upgrade zip? With upgrading both WP and AMM, will my media info still be there when I’m done?

If you want to see how I’m currently using AMM, my blog is: https://www.athomemom.net/wp Scroll down about half way and there is media content on both of my sidebars. Thanks for any help you can give me!

OK, I’ve been away for a few days so I’ll have to catch up with people on at a time.

Please, if you want to support CG-Amazon or other plugins, do so in their respective threads so as not to confuse this one. Thankyou.

Digink: With respect to the styling of the default output, it will assume whatever your site specifies for an unordered list. If you wish to change this, or change the HTML that comes out with your AMM items, you’ll have to edit your CSS and edit the template in the amm_extras.php file. If you want more help with this, email me!

douglsmith: There is no way in AMM to sub-categorise items. It’s a flexible plugin but the emphasis is on keeping the stored data as simple as possible. You can go about subcategorising things if you wish by using the ‘untouched’ fields in certain items. For example a book never has an “Artist”, so this could be used. However, I’ll be the first to admit that this is a rather makeshift solution to categorisation. The next release of AMM (Coming with greater frequency than this last update I assure!) will allow advanced users to submit full custom queries to their AMM database, further expanding the potential for what you describe. We’re also looking into supporting Amazon’s categories in the next release which, naturally, will support fully what you ask for.

nhall: Check your spelling of ‘my_fist_go’

-continuing in next post-

Debwire: you can indeed dedicate whole pages to AMM output and you can do it in two ways. One is to write a page, then write a standard WordPress template and include the usual WordPress hooks to get your AMM data where you want it.

The other method is to use the “Inline” amm_getMedia() call from directly within the post. If you refer to this page: https://www.sozu.co.uk/software/amm/getmedia_function.php and look down to the section called “Calling the Function” you’ll see an example of an inline amm_getMedia() call , with a couple of screenshots and a description.

If you still can’t achieve what you want, please contact me via my blog at https://www.denyerec.co.uk and I’ll talk you through it via IM or Email.

Beel: Thankyou. As I pointed out, you can put your AMM stuff anywhere you like. Posts, pages, sidebars, header or footers. It’s all there ??

athomemom: To upgrade you must:
0) BACKUP EVERYTHING
1) Install the latest WordPress
2) remove the old AMM 1.0 / 1.2 files (Just the amm files, not your old wordpress files!)
3) Install the latest AMM 1.5 code
4) THEN before you do anything else, upload the upgrade script from the second archive as instructed in the readme, browse to it and bingo, the data should be ported across.

If you run it without a backup and it breaks anything, no-one will have any sympathy ??

If you’d like me to talk you through it in realtime, email me via my website and I can contact you via ICQ, MSN or Email.

Oh,

There are lots of blogs running amm but the one that springs first to mind is https://www.gabbages.net , look down on the left for a “currently reading” section. If you want me to find more just ask.

I’m sure I’m probably missing something simeple but I can’t get teh inline post function to work and that is how I want to use AMM.

I have this <!– amm_getMediaID(‘amm_first’,1)–>
in my post but either nothing displays or I an error.
amm_first is the template I use which I copied from amm_extra but made no changes.

What am I missing?

Please make sure there is no whitespace in the inline tag, thus:

<!–amm_getMediaID(‘amm_first’,1)–>

The docs might be in error here, I will check them now. Also make sure you’ve added the custom field ‘amm’ with the value ‘enabled’ to the post in which you want AMM to be active.

denyerec, I just wanted to say thanks for the advice! I’m up and running and I really like the new goodies that you’ve added to AMM! A great plugin that’s now even better. Thank you!!

Ok, I’m lost and confused. First, you should know I don’t know PHP, but have worked with it and usually can get scripts to work. I can’t write a script from scratch, though. Anyway, I got AMM installed, but I’m confused with the template editing and stuff. I’ll re-read the instructions later, and hopefully understand it better, but I assume I [em]need[/em] to edit some files, and certainly I need to put some kind of code into the sidebar and/or posts, correct? I think I get the part with what to put in the sidebar or posts, but I’m not completely clear on the plugin files. I edited amm_extras.php with the following:

[code]
<?php
function amm_my_first_go($amm){
?>
<?php for ($x = 0; $x < $amm->totalItems(); $x++ ) :?>

Title: <?php echo $amm->title();?>
Author: <?php echo $amm->author();?>

<?php $amm->nextItem(); endfor; ?>

<?php
return $content;
}
?>
[/code]

Do I need to edit any other AMM files? And can I put the code that outputs the booklist or whatever I want to put there in BOTH the sidebar and individual posts, or just one of those? Thanks.

You can put the code into the sidebar AND anywhere else you wish, it really is up to you as to where you want it to appear.

There are also instructions in the documentation to allow you to add AMM output directly in a post, without having to edit any templates. This allows you to, for example, create a “book list” page.

This is done using WP style ‘quicktags’ (Which are really just HTML comments)

For example, you can drop this in at any point in a post or page:

<!–amm_getMedia(‘template’, 3)–>

And it will return the 3 latest things in your database, formatted by the ‘template’ template. You are correct in that you need to edit amm_extras.php if you wish to build your own templates.

By default, the name of the item, author and rating display. How can I have just the item name and author display? I’ve read the documentation and am still confused.