Multi-Amazon Link Bot Plugin

Multi-Amazon mambot 1.0.6/1.5.6 is a mambot/plugin0 for Joomla 1.0.x resp. 1.5.x which creates links to the product pages on multiple Amazon sites simultaneously using ISBN or ASIN. We have just released this mambot here on the website, you can get it from the downloads section. Usage is very simple: {ma ISBN} or {ma ASIN} Entering that code in an article will result in text links to the product pages on: - Amazon US - Amazon CA - Amazon UK - Amazon DE - Amazon FR - Amazon JP TextLinks are preceded by a country flag and read "Buy this item from Amazon US, etc." You can see the mambot in action in the Book descriptions on this site.

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bysgpwriter on September 10, 2009
Was excited about this but had no luck getting it to work no matter what I did.

Maybe a recent update broke it?
byaef03 on May 25, 2009
I like the fact it displays country specific links because my audience is worldwide.

Couple things to watch out for: The download link leads to the 1.0 specific versions - you have to hunt for 1.5 native versions.

The use of the "&" character to add your own Amazon Associate ID is problematic for JCE (and others?) because even in "HTML/Source" mode, JCE changes this character to the html special code and then the plug-in does not recognize and translate the url. So I had to hard code the associate ID into the source code. Would be nice if the source code was modified to recognize that the chosen HTML editor had made this modification and simply correct for it.