Monday, January 10, 2005

Amazon Book Rec Widget

Between HEAD tags (for easier updating):

<!-- Array of ASINs for Amazon Book Rec Snippet -->
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
// An array containing the asins for books

books = new Array(3);

books[0] = "0688172172";

books[1] = "0140434453";

books[2] = "0140433872";

// -->
</script>


Between BODY tags:

<!-- Amazon Code Snippet (author: tatwell@gmail.com) -->

<script language="JavaScript"><!--

// An array containing the asins for books

index = Math.floor(Math.random() * books.length);

document.write("<iframe src='http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=YOURTAG&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins="
+ books[index] +
"&fc1=666666&lc1=cbc1a3&bc1=cbc1a3&npa=1&lt1=_blank&IS2=1&bg1=ffffff&f=ifr'width='120' height='240' scrolling='no' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0'frameborder='0'></iframe>");

//done

// --></script>
<!-- END tatwell's Amazon snippet -->

GET variables:

t = your Amazon Associates tag
o = ?
p = ?
l = ?
fc1 = font color
lc1 = link color
bc1 = border color
lt1 = link target
bg1 = background color


What it produces is a display like this that will randomly choose a selection from your array:

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