amazon_buybox-v0i1

# Blosxom Plugin: amazon_buybox
# Author: Victor Ganata <aswang@fatoprofugus.net>
# based on buy_from_amazon plug-in by Rael Dornfest
# with modifications by Tony Williams
# and also on examples from the Amazon.com WDK
# Version: 0.1
# License: this plugin may be distributed with the same license as Blosxom

package amazon_buybox;

# Description: amazon_buybox is a Blosxom plugin that simplifies linking 
# into Amazon's catalog.

# An element in a story like
# <blosxom:amazon-buybox asin="B000003RGY">description</blosxom:amazon-buybox>
# turns into the following HTML snippet:

# <div class="amazon-desc">description</div>
# <div class="amazon-image">
#    <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003RGY/ref=nosim/[associate ID]">
#       <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003RGY.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="picture of [description]" />
#    </a>
# </div>
# <form method="POST" action="http://www.amazon.com/o/dt/assoc/handle-buy-box=B000003RGY">
#    <input type="hidden" name="asin.B000003RGY" value="1" \>
#    <input type="hidden" name="tag-value" value="[associate ID]" \>
#    <input type="hidden" name="tag_value" value="[associate ID]" \>
#    <input type="submit" name="submit.add-to-cart" value="Buy From Amazon.com" \>
# </form>

# Installation:
# - Modify the $associateID (or don't :-)
# - Drop amazon_buybox into your plugins directory

# Configuration:

$associateID = 'fatoprofugusn-20';

# opening and closing tags for element containing the buybox
$container_open=qq{};        
$container_close=qq{};

#opening and closing tags for element containing description
$description_open=qq{<div class="amazon-desc">};
$description_close=qq{</div>};

# opening and closing tags for element containing image
$image_open=qq{<div class="amazon-image">};
$image_close=qq{</div>};

$button_text="Buy from Amazon.com";

sub start {
    1;
}

# Modify the body of stories by rewriting <blosxom:amazon-buybox> elements
sub story {
    my($pkg, $path, $filename, $story_ref, $title_ref, $body_ref) = @_;
    # Rewrite any <blosxom:amazon-buybox asin="[ASIN]"> tag in the post body
    $$body_ref =~ 
    s{\<blosxom:amazon-buybox\s+?asin=\"(.*?)\"\s*?\>(.*?)\</blosxom:amazon-buybox\>}
    {$container_open
    $description_open$2$description_close
    $image_open
    \<a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/$1/ref=nosim/$associateID\"\>
    \<img src=\"http://images.amazon.com/images/P/$1.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"$2\" /\>
    \</a\>
    $image_close
    \<form method=\"POST\" action=\"http://www.amazon.com/o/dt/assoc/handle-buy-box=$1\"\>
    \<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"asin.$1\" value=\"1\" /\>
    \<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"tag-value\" value=\"$associateID\" /\>
    \<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"tag_value\" value=\"$associateID\" /\>
    \<input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit.add-to-cart\" value=\"$button_text\" /\>
    \</form\>
    $container_close}xsg;
    1;
}

1;