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Product Description The landscape of e-commerce is changing and Amazon.com is one of the companies on the forefront of those changes. Traditional affiliate marketing (which they pioneered) is old school. Using Amazon's Web Services, you can bring their store to your store. This book teaches how to use the PHP programming language to develop web applications that take advantage of Amazon’s E-Commerce Service 4.0. The book also discusses the major aspects of the Amazon.com site architecture and Amazon's Seller Services -- the Amazon Inventory Management System (AIMS) and the Merchants@ API. Web Services development using XSLT, SOAP, and REST is described as well as how to harness the international Amazon sites (amazon.de, amazon.co.jp, amazon.fr, etc..) to make applications that are multi-lingual and multi-cultural. The book is targeted at intermediate PHP developers but only basic understanding of XML and PHP is required. Developers interested in creating simple sidebar applications for web sites all the way up to more serious storefronts and even backend inventory systems will find this book a useful companion.
Featured Customer Reviews  Still a great book five years later,
May 22, 2010
The examples are clearly written in bite-sized chunks that tackle various scenarios elegantly. You won't find a complete storefront in a box here, but someone with moderate PHP skills can certainly take these excellent working examples and put it together for themselves with a bit of elbow grease.
The author re-worked the examples in November '09 to make them work in the latest Amazon API. That is pretty darn cool, in my humble opinion. I own a lot of programming books, but this is one of the most practically useful ones that I have had the pleasure of reading. Five Stars!
Now the only question is: Is anyone making any serious cash using the Amazon Product Advertising API? A bit too soon into XML / WSDL,
July 14, 2006
Another thing I don't particularly enjoy is the presentation is intertwined -- PHP 4 and PHP 5. At times this is confusing and if you just browse trough trying to find something randomly, you always have to read back a little bit to find out whether it's about PHP 4 or 5.
Otherwise, I am pretty happy with it and can't wait to actually start implementing some things I heave learned in this book in my own applications.An excellent resource for web developers,
March 29, 2006 Some of the reviewers seem to be wishing for a "..for Dummies" book. This aint it. What this book is is an excellent overview of the entire Amazon e-commerce platform from the perspective of a web developer. It is written by a web developer for web developers, full stop. And as far as that statement is true, this is an excellent (and inexpensive 8-) resource.
That said, there is most certainly an opportunity for some author out there to write a down and dirty guide to Amazon e-commerce for folks with mom'n'pop websites. Indeed, how about a down'n'dirty guide to amazon/ebay/google/yahoo services..as well as RSS..you name it? A gaping hole in the market IMHO.
Well, I digress: the current book is excellent and heartily recommended to developers and tech-savvy website managers who don't mind skipping some gory details to read a very good overview of what Amazon has on offer.Not bad for the price,
September 30, 2005 The info doesn't do a very good job explaining bits of the code. They just give you a few pages of code at a time and then shows you what the end result looks like. I would have preferred it covering less topics and explaining them better. This book is good if you already have a high traffic site and want to add another feature. Amazon web services may not be the best place if you are wanting to make some income from selling their stuff. The book says it is better if you have something to sell through amazon web services. I also couldn't get one example to work so I emailed the author but didn't get any reply.Excellent introduction to Amazon web services,
September 17, 2005 I am relative novice when it comes to using web services but I have some experience with PHP. I found the examples in this book very useful for illustrating how to get up and running quickly while giving a good foundation for more experimentation. The Author does not give away all of the answers to building a complete Amazon app which I found to be be nice because it made me think of other more imaginative ways to use them.
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