Hi all,

I'm working on a module to bring data in from Amazon, Ebay etc. to display in a module which I'll include under HTML content in my webpage. I'm planning to create a simple ascx control which uses eg. the Amazon API to bring back a product relevant to the page the user is on.

Each page will have a different Amazon product displayed, so I need a way of passing an Amazon ASIN from the Mojoportal page at runtime to the module, which will then use the ASIN to find whatever content it needs through the Amazon API. Normally one way I could do this would be to pass parameters directly to the ascx control, however I don't think I can do this in Mojoportal. Does anyone have any idea how I can go about this?

Many thanks in advance,
Matt

Hi Joe, sorry yeah an ASIN is a product Id in Amazon. Using the API you can send it an ASIN and it will return information on the product, which the user control can then interpret and output to the screen.

I want to make it as simple as possible, using one user control to generically look up information based on an ASIN it's been passed. The user control/module could then be added to a product page, the editor of the page could enter an ASIN somewhere, which the user control picks up and gets the required information. As each page will have a different product, and therefore ASIN, the user control needs to read this from somewhere on the page, it's this bit that I'm stuck on...

Thanks,
Matt

That sounds perfect Joe, thanks a lot.

I'm having some medium trust issues at the moment with searching and updating pages (including in older existing sites which I'm quite confused about) but once that's sorted I'll have a go at this.

Thanks again,
Matt