FREEBS - Free Book Store Back End Demo

Try out the back end to FREEBS.

FREEBS Back End Demo

 

Here's the working front end.

FREEBS - Free Book Store

 

That looks good, somthing I've been looking for a while. Where can it be downloaded from?

 

Very interesting.

What is the output based on.

In other words, how is it targetted to one specific sector?

 

good work noppid.

 

Thanks for the compliments.

As soon as I give the code a second look, I'll try to post it.

The back end has no security and should be removed after use or between updates. It would be a good idea to rename that file something unique too rather then the default name when doing DB maintenance so no one finds it by accident.

The front end has some security, I'm running it for now till everyone pokes at it and I'm sure that they can't manipulate the the key or isbn var.

The system is the main folder of 2 php files index.php and book.php and 3 sub-folders, templates, includes, and images.

There are 7 templates your can customize that are just html with php tags.

I will create a list of what each template is and what variables are available to parse in each so you can create a custom store in no time at all.

A full pull of data from amazon on my sever yields 1069 books from the 250 search page limit there currently is taking under six minutes. The database load after the pull takes under a couple of minutes. You need to run this about weekly to every 3 months minimun.

The main book page pulls live current up to the second pricing and availability for the book requested.

No commercial reviews are shown as it is illegal according to the AMAZON TOS. If you pull Reviews from the html page rather then the SOAP or XML feeds and display them on your site, you will have copyright issues.

FREEBS is..

• Truely Free
• Extremely Fast
• 100% PHP
• Amazon TOS Complient
• Coded with the Amazon API
• XHTML Compatable Output
• MySql Driven
• Customizable by Templates
• Designed for "you" to Profit

 

You set a "Keyword" in the config.php file. I have not worked out multiple keywords, but it does parse multiple word keyword phares.

ie. "Motorcycle"

"motorcycle part"

"motorcycle helmet"

"Genealogy research guide"

 

Looks interesting. I look forward to seeing this completed and impliments on a few sites. I'm always a 'late bloomer' - last kid on the block to have the 'newest toy'

Heck, I still don't have a blog OR a forum

 

Thanks for answering my questions.

So how can we get it then

 

Have a directory?

Noppid, are you aware that Google tends to skip one letter anchor text? Relying on the alphabetic links only would not be a good way to index this database.

You might want to randomly pull 5 titles or something on each page to give the spiders something to chew on. Or do [Gynaology Books A - C] - [Gynaology Books D - F] or similar.

 

I'm fighting a cold. Yesterday sucked and today is just as slow. Cut my work by like 50%.

This is the first showing of the code, I don't want to rush it out and have a bunch of folks doing updates. I hope to find a few folks with time and experience that understand testing to help with a preview beta release.

I have alot of documentation to write yet and I need to make the default templates. The defaults are currently those of my genealogy site. Well two are, the header and footer.

The way I made this is the output is basically unformatted XHTML that you plug into your existing style by splitting the html and recieving the book data in the middle. It's unformatted so your can decide if it goes in <div> tags to Table tags.

 

So essentially it's very simple to change the look and feel of the sites.

Would you also be able to provide a lisat of the relevand output tags should one wish to develop their own templates.

PS: I'd be happy to beta test
PPS: Hope you feel better. I was sick as a dog over the weekend too. Not nice.

 

That is exactly correct. I will make the list of Required templates, what they do, and what vars can be parsed in each before I do the release so you can make 100% custom templates.

 

Here are the template descriptions. FREEBS - Template Descriptions

 

What is the potential site size you could create with this package?

I assume it is only dependent on your search terms

 

It is exactly that of any properly coded search by keyword caching package for amazon books.

Motorcycle caches 860
Genealogy caches 1069

Both are great amounts of content pages.

We can only query amazon for 2500 results currently. Of that 2500 the yield is usually around 600 to 1000 books available with dupes and unavails eliminated from the search. This can be done is six to seven minutes.

You can find out in 6 to seven minutes running the backend configured for your site and keyword what your yield would be.

I may make a tool to figure out the exact yield.

 

Noted. Thanks. The anchor change is a template edit the user can do.

I think I'll stick with the index method in the DB, this puts all the sorting on the back end and makes for a fast indexed look up of each letter batch when called on the front end. We're talking a couple K records at best here, not an enterprise database.

Google walks the letter index in the other popular book app. I think we'll be ok, but as noted, users can easily change the anchor text.

Regards.

 

Well, worked great for me!

Install was very easy, and customizing was nothing more then minor template changes.

Looking Good !!!! Score another one for Noppid!!!!!!

Here is my bookstore: Automotive Books, which comes off the main site of Lincolns of Distinction. If your a vBulletin Forum owners, you can also find info on this add on at vBulletin Webmaster.

 

I think It's time to remove the gbot alert email code. I'm getting hundreds of emails.

I find it absolutly fantastic that I keep seeing so many deep crawls of my bookstores.

You should have FREEBS - Free Book Store on your sites too.

 

Noppid - can we do an amazon Europe Store?