FREEBS - Free Amazon Book Store - Current Release 1.15

[Greg]

Welcome to the release page of the FREEBS - Free Amazon Book Store.

FREEBS is dynamic and internal to your site. All of your links, except the buy button, will be internal even if the book is not on file. If a similar link is followed to a book not on file, the book will still be displayed locally. There is really no end to following the similar links, it could go on and on with all books displayed for purchase on your site. This is helpful to sell off topic books yet be able to keep your FREEBS book store indexes on topic.

FREEBS is International. You can have your store in any of the available amazon country codes, US, CA, FR, DE, UK, JP. You must have an associates ID for the specific country you use.

When installed and setup the FREEBS database populate program, p3.php, will make SOAP calls to Amazon for your keyword/topic and populate a MySql database with books on your topic via the keyword.

When populating the database, no matter how many returns the SOAP call claims there are, we will only get the first 250 pages or 2500 books. From testing at that point we find most books are discontinued or duplicate books anyway. That is about a ten minute pull. Then the database update occurs and that is very fast too, about 3 minutes. You will then be told how many books you will list.

The 250 page 2500 book result limit is an Amazon thing. Nothing we can do for now. They talked about 3200 or even unlimited, but we now get an average of about 800 books to list for a given keyword/topic. Not too shabby for content.

There are two program modes, SEO and PHP modes. PHP mode uses standard PHP style URLs. SEO mode uses html file name URLs by utilizing apache mod rewrite.

Please do not redistribute this code in any way shape or form in whole or in part. For quality control please refer folks here to download the latest code.

This software is issued with no warranty or guarantee of any kind.

FREEBS Books Store Demos:
Buy Jogging Strollers Baby Book Store
Motorcycle Book Store
Computer Book Store
Genealogy Book Store
Automotive Book Store
Fishing Book Store
Home Repair and Landscaping Books

New FREEBS Install:
See included .txt file.

Upgrading FREEBS:
See included .txt file.

You will need an amazon associates ID to sell books. You also need an Amazon developers token which is required and supplied. However, you can get your own amazon developers token if you wish. If you are only using FREEBS for SE indexed pages, you may use our Amazon Associates ID. Although, if you are going to sell books, you must have your own Amazon Associates ID to get credit for the sales. If you run an international store, you must have an Amazon Associates ID for that specific Country.

Please see the Amazon Web Services License Agreement as well as the Amazon Associates information before installing and using the FREEBS software.

FREEBS utilizes the NuSOAP - Web Services Toolkit for PHP and the Amazon Search PHP Class from the Amazon ECS 3.0 SDK. The AmazonSearch.php file included with this package is customized for FREEBS.

Enjoy your FREEBS Amazon book store.

[Greg]

The only requirement to use FREEBS Free Book Store software is that you credit us on one page, the main index.(link back) The default template has conditional code so that happens.

If you use a custom template, please use this code in your footer.html

PHP Code:

<?php if( THIS_PAGE == 'index' )
{
echo 
'
<center>
FREEBS Copyright <a href="http://www.lakecs.com/">Computer Help Forum</a>
</center>'; } ?>

And the credits and the link back to us will only show on that one page.

Thanks

[Greg]

If you want dynamic titles and descriptions, here are two examples...

Dynamic Description:

PHP Code:

<meta name="description" content="<?php if( THIS_PAGE == 'book' )
{
echo  $name . " by: " . $author . " published: " . $rdate;
}
elseif( THIS_PAGE == 'list' )
{
    echo $keyword . " book store index letter " . $key;
}
else
{
echo $keyword . ' Book Store';    } ?>" />

Dynamic Title:

PHP Code:

<title>
<?php if( THIS_PAGE == 'book' )
{
echo  $name;
}
elseif( THIS_PAGE == 'list' )
{
    echo $keyword . " book index letter " . $key;
}
else
{
echo $keyword . ' Books';    
} ?></title>

[Greg]

If you want a vB style breadcrumb for your FREEBS book store, use this code in your header.html template. There is an example in the default header.html template included with the FREEBS package as well. This is a code example to do so...

PHP Code:

<?php if (THIS_PAGE== 'book')
{
      if( $SEO_MODE )
      {
          echo "<B><a href=\"$index_name\">$keyword Book Store</a> > <a href=\"key-$bookkey-1.html\">$keyword books beginning with ". strtoupper($bookkey)."</a></B>";  
 
    }
    else
    {
          echo '<B><a href="index.php">'.$keyword.' Book Store</a> > <a href="index.php?key='.$bookkey.'">'.$keyword.' books beginning with '.strtoupper($bookkey).'</a></B>';        
    }
}
else
{
  if( THIS_PAGE == 'index' )
      echo '<b>'.$keyword.' Book Store</b>';
  else
      echo '<B><a href="index.php">'.$keyword.' Book Store</a></B>';
} ?>

[Greg]

In preparation for the next release and so we may be able to better keep in contact with FREEBS users, we have made it necessary to register to download FREEBS.

Amazon sends us necessary update information from time to time and it is imperitive that we be able to distribute this information.

FREEBS 1.11 will contain one of these important changes.

Regards

[Greg]

FREEBS 1.11 is posted which includes an important amazon update of the /includes/AmazonSearch.php file.

There are new links for each page to enhance the inbound links.

There is an experimental country code for those that may need that feature.

[sagetips]

Noppid -

Can you upgrade from 1.10 to 1.12 directly or do you need to do 1.11 first? If the later, can you point to where 1.11 is available?

Thanks

[Greg]

Originally Posted by sagetips

Noppid -

Can you upgrade from 1.10 to 1.12 directly or do you need to do 1.11 first? If the later, can you point to where 1.11 is available?

Thanks

You can if you...

-Repalce the 3 root folder files... index.php, book.php and p3.php.
-Replace the includes/Amazonsearch.php
-Add the includes/country.php
-Replace after editing or edit includes/config.php Add new var:
// amazon Location: "us" "uk" "de" "jp" "fr" "ca"
$a_country = "us";
-Edit templates where you want our picks displayed or upload new templates:
<?php echo $our_picks; ?>
-Edit /templates/bookindex.html and /templates/seobookindex.html
-Remove the words "Family Seekers" if you have them there.
Or, upload the new templates
-Edit or replace /templates/book.html
Change www.amazon.com to <?php echo $purchase_url; ?>

If need be, I can put 1.11 back up, but that should get ya there.

[sagetips]

Thanks Noppid -

I'm all set now.

[Greg]

Great, glad it worked out.