Amazon datasources
Posted by primeminister | Filed under Cake-Toppings
This is just a short announcement. I’ve been dealing a lot with Amazon API and LastFM api in my last project. (Cloudspeakers new design/site) I’ve made a CakePHP datasource for Amazon S3 storing and retrieving and one I modified the datasource from Felix for the Amazon product advertising API.
I will share those through git (theChaw) but have to finalize them a bit. Also the retrieving S3 part is not working yet, but not needed in my project.. so that will be a bit later.
Update 2009-07-11: Just had an interesting talk of Joel Perras @cakefest about datasources. I have to rewrite mine. Sorry and have some patience.
Update 2009-11-08: Just added the Amazon eCommerce code datasource to GitHub: http://github.com/primeminister/CakePHP-Amazon-eCommerce-datasource
June 23rd, 2009 at 16:22
I’m very interested in the updated Amazon Product Advertising API datasource. I haven’t looked at it since they started the move to mandate authenticating each call.
July 12th, 2009 at 10:03
@Chuck: That part is already finished and working. Stay tuned
August 15th, 2009 at 21:13
I would love to see the lib you have for the product advertising api. Any chance you could release it into the wild :)
October 19th, 2009 at 18:18
I’m messing around with CakePHP and AWS S3. It’d be great if I could take a look at your datasources to get an idea of how I should set mine up. Thanks!
November 7th, 2009 at 09:53
Interesting, what kind of talk you had, which made you to start rewrite datasource? Is there anywhere a good guide of writing good datasources? I need to harvest Last.fm API, so far I have found this one: http://github.com/m3nt0r/last.fm-datasource-for-cakephp by m3nt0r. He has used a very clean approach to wrapping up all Last.fm methods, but something tells me that what he did is not an exactly CakePHP datasourse, at least not how CakePHP core team envisioned it.