Ten Minutes? Really?
This mashup package is pretty redonkulos. By which I mean, if you want to get ten niche sites rolled out the door tonight, go get this software and you’ll be done in two hours. Not counting buying the domains and hosting.
Watch the video; you’ll see what I mean.
The version I downloaded required a .htaccess line to make it use php5. You’ll want to check on your hosting for that.
In the version there, you’ll probably want to add the “sitetitle” variable at the top ( he shows it in the video but on reflection I’m not sure it’s used in the script. And when you go to enter the development tags, make sure you have a good search index ( my site tried to use SoftwareVideoGames but the proper one was VideoGames; I printed out the xml with a print_r to figure that out ). The request token is obvious ( you have to fumble around a little to get the REST token, though ) but while you might assume the RequestUserId is the developer id, it’s not; when you get the REST token you have to log in as a regular user. Use the username you used for that in that variable.
I think the tracking id is the pid you see in your commission junction “website settings” and the “affiliateuserid” is some string to make me know where it is ( the sid ) but I’m waiting to hear back from Mark on that.
The template file is pretty basic — you can easily modify it. I cleaned up my copy of the style.css, there’s a lot to trim out there.
Oh, by the way, it’s over here..
