Latest Articles: Are Browse Nodes Disappearing? The Old-Fashioned Way Amazon uses "browse nodes" to organize its web site and product information. Each browse node may have zero or more products associated with it and, generally, you can think of a browse node as a category of products. ... [More] What are Search Indexes? A search index contains a list of products along with meta-data describing the products. Amazon created search indexes to speed up searching (that's obvious from the name). It appears that each search index can have different meta-data based on... [More] PHP A2S Demo 1 - ItemLookup The following is a simple example of using PHP to perform an A2S ItemLookup operation and display the information in HTML. It uses functions usually included in PHP version 4 and later. <?... [More] Does Amazon.com offer a data feed? New Associates often ask if Amazon.com provides a data feed with information on the products sold by Amazon. Amazon offers "Bulk Data Feeds" which enable you to download information for all Amazon products all at once. The feeds are updated daily... [More] Displaying a List of New Releases or Top Sellers for a Browse Node A2Sdeveloper.com provides a tool for displaying a list of new releases or best-selling products in a specified browse node. You can use the tool without any knowledge of programming or A2S. To display a list of the top-selling or newest releases... [More] Getting REST Results with Simple Caching Here is a function with demonstrates how to combine fetching REST results from Amazon's A2S servers with a simple caching scheme using a MySQL database. function getPage($url, $maxage=7, $cache = true) { $body = ""; if ($cache) ... [More] Trimming Descriptions and Reviews Often you would like to trim a product description or customer review to a shorter length. The following PHP function will trim a string to a desired length. It breaks the string at a space. function cutString($text, $limit) { $text =... [More] Using Browse Nodes Amazon.com (like all the Amazon sites) organizes it's web pages using "browse nodes." A browse node originally represented a specific page at Amazon.com, but is now used most often to create a category of related products. A "browse node ID" is... [More] Using CURL to Get Results from ECS The following PHP function allows you to fetch results from an A2S query including the status code. It returns the text returned from the URL. It also returns the HTTP status code and the HTTP headers. function getAmazonPage($url,... [More] Working With the "One-Second" Rule What is the "One-Second Rule?" The following condition in the Amazon Web Services license agreement often causes confusion or concern: You may make calls at any time that the Amazon Web Services are available, provided that you [...] do not... [More]