Sample code to pull ebay affiliate auctions and display them in wordpress

Here is some (older) sample code to get you up and running quickly. I have moved on to a class based system at this point, and I don't mind share this code. I want to show people it's easier than you think.

I have not tested this exact code, as I have chopped out a bunch of stuff that didn't need to be in here.

##########Main part put this code in a .php file#############

<?php 

$ebayxml = array();
$yourpid = "1234567";
$tomorrow = date("Ymd")+5;
$today = date("ymd");


function makerss($keywords){
	global $ebayxml,$yourpid,$tomorrow,$today;


	$xmlsrc="http://rss.api.ebay.com/ws/rssapi?FeedName=SearchResults&siteId=0&language=en-US&output=RSS20&sacqy=&catref=C5&dfte=1&sacur=0&dfs=".$today."&sorefinesearch=1&fsop=32&fsoo=2&from=R14&saobfmts=exsif&dff=1&dfe=".$tomorrow."&_trksid=m37&sacqyop=ge&saslc=0&floc=1&sabfmts=0&saprclo=&saprchi=&saaff=afcj&fcl=3&frpp=50&afcj=".$yourpid."&nojspr=yZQy&satitle=".$keywords."&afmp=&sacat=-1&saslop=1&fss=0&dfts=24";

	$ch = curl_init(); 
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $xmlsrc); 
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE); 
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
	$data = curl_exec($ch); 
	curl_close($ch);

	$xml = simplexml_load_string($data);
	$xml = $xml->children();
	$cnt = 0;


    	foreach ($xml->children() as $item) {
 		if(($item->getName()=="item")&&$cnt<20){
			$ebayxml[$cnt] = array();
			$xmlLink = $item->link;
			$xmlTitle = $item->title;
			$xmlDescription = $item->description;
			$ebayxml[$cnt]['link']=$xmlLink;
			$ebayxml[$cnt]['title']=$xmlTitle;
			$ebayxml[$cnt]['desc']=$xmlDescription;
 			$cnt++;
		}
    	}
	$ebayxml['count']=$cnt;
}

function outputebay($itemnum){
	global $ebayxml;

	$xmlLink = $ebayxml[$itemnum]['link'];
	$xmlTitle = $ebayxml[$itemnum]['title'];
	$xmlDescription = $ebayxml[$itemnum]['desc'];

	echo "<br><a href='{$xmlLink}' target='_blank' name='{$xmlTitle}'>{$xmlTitle}</a><br>{$xmlDescription}<br>";	
}

?>

Code (markup):

###########This code calls the function based on wordpress tags####

Put this code in the single.php file in Wordpress.

$kw = get_the_tags();
	if($kw<>""){
		foreach($kw as $k){
		 $words.=$k->name."+";
		}
		$words = substr($words,0,strlen($words)-1);
		include("yourfilename.php");ebayrss($words);
	}

Code (markup):

Put it in after..

<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>

Code (markup):

And before..

<p class="postmetadata alt">

Code (markup):

Now whenever you make a post, just put in some tags and this will take care of the rest.

I am still working on my main project still, life has me doing other things right now.

Like I said I didnt test this yet. Just run the makerss function with a keyword that is formated like, "kw+kw+kw" then run outputebay(auctionnumber).

 

I'm curious, has anyone tried this?