Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Amazon Product Adevetising API Code

Example to access the Amazon Product Advertising API using the provided class.
<?php

    /* Example usage of the Amazon Product Advertising API */
    include("amazon_api_class.php");

    $obj = new AmazonProductAPI();

    try
    {
        /* Returns a SimpleXML object */
         $result = $obj->searchProducts("Akon",
                                       AmazonProductAPI::Music,
                                       "TITLE");
    }
    catch(Exception $e)
    {
        echo $e->getMessage();
    }

    print_r($result);



foreach($result->Items->Item as $itm)
{
       $SearchIndex1=$_REQUEST['SearchIndex'];
      $asin=$itm->ASIN;
     $SearchIndex=$itm->ItemAttributes->Title;

     echo  $itm->ItemAttributes->Title; 
}

?>
You can convert the returned xml to json with the following line.

$result = json_encode($result);


Api Access class are

<?php
 
require_once 'aws_signed_request.php';
 
class AmazonProductAPI
{
 
    private $public_key     = "YOUR AMAZON ACCESS KEY ID";
    private $private_key    = "YOUR AMAZON SECRET KEY";
 
    /* 'Associate Tag' now required, effective from 25th Oct. 2011 */
    private $associate_tag  = "YOUR AMAZON ASSOCIATE TAG";
 
    const MUSIC = "Music";
    const DVD   = "DVD";
    const GAMES = "VideoGames";
 
    private function verifyXmlResponse($response)
    {
        if ($response === False)
        {
            throw new Exception("Could not connect to Amazon");
        }
        else
        {
            if (isset($response->Items->Item->ItemAttributes->Title))
            {
                return ($response);
            }
            else
            {
                throw new Exception("Invalid xml response.");
            }
        }
    }
 
    private function queryAmazon($parameters)
    {
        return aws_signed_request("com",
                                  $parameters,
                                  $this->public_key,
                                  $this->private_key,
                                  $this->associate_tag);
    }
 
    public function searchProducts($search,$category,$searchType="UPC")
    {
        $allowedTypes = array("UPC", "TITLE", "ARTIST", "KEYWORD");
        $allowedCategories = array("Music", "DVD", "VideoGames");
 
        switch($searchType) 
        {
            case "UPC" :
                $parameters = array("Operation"     => "ItemLookup",
                                    "ItemId"        => $search,
                                    "SearchIndex"   => $category,
                                    "IdType"        => "UPC",
                                    "ResponseGroup" => "Medium");
                            break;
 
            case "TITLE" :
                $parameters = array("Operation"     => "ItemSearch",
                                    "Title"         => $search,
                                    "SearchIndex"   => $category,
                                    "ResponseGroup" => "Medium");
                            break;
 
        }
 
        $xml_response = $this->queryAmazon($parameters);
 
        return $this->verifyXmlResponse($xml_response);
 
    }
 
    public function getItemByUpc($upc_code, $product_type)
    {
        $parameters = array("Operation"     => "ItemLookup",
                            "ItemId"        => $upc_code,
                            "SearchIndex"   => $product_type,
                            "IdType"        => "UPC",
                            "ResponseGroup" => "Medium");
 
        $xml_response = $this->queryAmazon($parameters);
 
        return $this->verifyXmlResponse($xml_response);
 
    }
 
    public function getItemByAsin($asin_code)
    {
        $parameters = array("Operation"     => "ItemLookup",
                            "ItemId"        => $asin_code,
                            "ResponseGroup" => "Medium");
 
        $xml_response = $this->queryAmazon($parameters);
 
        return $this->verifyXmlResponse($xml_response);
    }
 
    public function getItemByKeyword($keyword, $product_type)
    {
        $parameters = array("Operation"   => "ItemSearch",
                            "Keywords"    => $keyword,
                            "SearchIndex" => $product_type);
 
        $xml_response = $this->queryAmazon($parameters);
 
        return $this->verifyXmlResponse($xml_response);
    }
 
}
 
?>

Amazon Signed Request

<?php
 
function  aws_signed_request($region,
                             $params,
                             $public_key,
                             $private_key,
                             $associate_tag)
{
 
    $method = "GET";
    $host = "ecs.amazonaws.".$region;
    $uri = "/onca/xml";
 
 
    $params["Service"]          = "AWSECommerceService";
    $params["AWSAccessKeyId"]   = $public_key;
    $params["AssociateTag"]     = $associate_tag;
 
    $params["Timestamp"]        = gmdate("Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z");
    $params["Version"]          = "2009-03-31";
 
    /* The params need to be sorted by the key, as Amazon does this at
      their end and then generates the hash of the same. If the params
      are not in order then the generated hash will be different from
      Amazon thus failing the authentication process.
    */
    ksort($params);
 
    $canonicalized_query = array();
 
    foreach ($params as $param=>$value)
    {
        $param = str_replace("%7E", "~", rawurlencode($param));
        $value = str_replace("%7E", "~", rawurlencode($value));
        $canonicalized_query[] = $param."=".$value;
    }
 
    $canonicalized_query = implode("&", $canonicalized_query);
 
    $string_to_sign = $method."\n".$host."\n".$uri."\n".
                            $canonicalized_query;
 
    /* calculate the signature using HMAC, SHA256 and base64-encoding */
    $signature = base64_encode(hash_hmac("sha256", 
                                  $string_to_sign, $private_key, True));
 
    /* encode the signature for the request */
    $signature = str_replace("%7E", "~", rawurlencode($signature));
 
    /* create request */
    $request = "http://".$host.$uri."?".$canonicalized_query."&Signature=".$signature;
 
    /* I prefer using CURL */
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$request);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
 
    $xml_response = curl_exec($ch);
 
    if ($xml_response === False)
    {
        return False;
    }
    else
    {
        /* parse XML and return a SimpleXML object, if you would
           rather like raw xml then just return the $xml_response.
         */
        $parsed_xml = @simplexml_load_string($xml_response);
        return ($parsed_xml === False) ? False : $parsed_xml;
    }
}
?>