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A MediaWiki Extension for adding Amazon Associate Widgets to your Wiki.

Requirements

• Mediawiki 1.25+

Installation

Download the extension and add it to your extensions folder, or install it by adding it to your composer.local.json file:

{
    "require": {
        "multidimensional/amazon-widget": "*"
    }
}

Activate the extension in LocalSettings.php and set your Amazon tag.

wfLoadExtension( 'AmazonWidget' );
$wgAmazonWidgetTag = 'YOUR-AMAZON-TAG-HERE-20';

That's it!

Usage in MediaWiki

To use the Amazon tag, it is very easy. There are two elements that are required:

• ASIN (product code)
• Link ID (from your Amazon Associates link)

Example:

<amazon asin="B07N7RXQF6"
    id="5d90afe84e9cd34fb5a0f1fac6b9bf8d"/>

You can also add advanced tags:

• Width (pixel count or percentage)
• Height (pixel count or percentage)
• Style (any css style information)

Example:

<amazon asin="B07N7RXQF6"
    id="5d90afe84e9cd34fb5a0f1fac6b9bf8d"
    width="200"
    height="150"
    style="float:right;"/>

Additional configuration options can be hardcoded in your LocalSettings.php file.

Amazon Links

You can also use this Extension to generate links to Amazon products by including text to include in the link by using the following style of tag:

<amazon asin="B07N7RXQF6"
    id="5d90afe84e9cd34fb5a0f1fac6b9bf8d">
    Link Text</amazon>

Note that advanced settings cannot be used with these tags.

Advanced Configuration

Hard coded settings can also be added in your LocalSettings.php file. These will affect appearances across all Widgets, but note that your cache will need to be cleared for all changes to take effect.

Here are the default values:

$wgAmazonWidgetRegion = 'US';
$wgAmazonWidgetWidth = 120;
$wgAmazonWidgetHeight = 240;
$wgAmazonWidgetNewWindow = false;
$wgAmazonWidgetBorder = true;
$wgAmazonWidgetBackground = 'ffffff';
$wgAmazonWidgetTitleColor = '0066c0';
$wgAmazonWidgetPriceColor = '333333';
$wgAmazonWidgetMarketplace = 'amazon';

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2019 multidimension.al

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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