Comments on: Understanding the Amazon Product Advertising API http://www.money-code.com/2009/08/understanding-the-amazon-product-advertising-api/ Coding For Online Success Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:44:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: admin http://www.money-code.com/2009/08/understanding-the-amazon-product-advertising-api/comment-page-1/#comment-737 admin Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:12:33 +0000 http://www.money-code.com/?p=551#comment-737 Hello 'Mr. How To', that's a hard question to answer. Basically, I would start with some basic PHP (tutorials, simple database calls) and understand how that 'renders' HTML to the browser. Once you have semi-under-your-belt, I would then look into web services. Basically, the concept is quite simple. You create a 'request' and send that request to a service (ie: AWS) and that service would perform the lookups on their end and return you a 'response'. Both the request and response would be in a XML format. You then would parse the response and display it as HTML. I know this can be overwhelming to many people, but it's the same as me asking someone that I want to build a car, but have no idea what car even does. You need to break it down into digestible chunks and move on from that point. But I would recommend the basics of using a database and rending 'output' to the browser. That's the best place to start and is a good foundation. That is the core of all content management and product display systems out there. Hope this helps a little. hanji Hello ‘Mr. How To’, that’s a hard question to answer. Basically, I would start with some basic PHP (tutorials, simple database calls) and understand how that ‘renders’ HTML to the browser. Once you have semi-under-your-belt, I would then look into web services. Basically, the concept is quite simple. You create a ‘request’ and send that request to a service (ie: AWS) and that service would perform the lookups on their end and return you a ‘response’. Both the request and response would be in a XML format. You then would parse the response and display it as HTML.

I know this can be overwhelming to many people, but it’s the same as me asking someone that I want to build a car, but have no idea what car even does. You need to break it down into digestible chunks and move on from that point. But I would recommend the basics of using a database and rending ‘output’ to the browser. That’s the best place to start and is a good foundation. That is the core of all content management and product display systems out there.

Hope this helps a little.
hanji

]]> By: Mr. How To http://www.money-code.com/2009/08/understanding-the-amazon-product-advertising-api/comment-page-1/#comment-736 Mr. How To Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:59:34 +0000 http://www.money-code.com/?p=551#comment-736 I've been trying to work with the product advertising api but it seems impossible to find any good tutorials or examples. I don't understand how soap and php works. How did u go about learning it your first time? I’ve been trying to work with the product advertising api but it seems impossible to find any good tutorials or examples. I don’t understand how soap and php works. How did u go about learning it your first time?

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