############   Links as a Bookshop - John Gotze <john@gotzespace.dk>  ##############

#  HOW TO:
#  Do a "Seach Amazon for books on [category name]"
#
#  See http://www.books.democracyforum.net/ for an example of it's use.
#
# īVer 1.0 - Using original Maxcomm script (dated: 16 June 1999) 
#            See http://www.computer-mentors.com/download.html

In the category.html template you find <%category_clean%>. You can use this in a 
search string in the Maxcomm script. For example:

<a href="/path_to_script/amazonsearch.cgi?keyword=+<%category_clean%>&whichamazon=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk&mymode=first&tag=AssociateID">Search for <%category_clean%> on Amazonco.uk</A>

Usage: 

1. Install maxcomm.cgi with a standard setup (I have called my script amazonsearch.cgi). 
   Now call the script in your category.html template.

2. The Maxcomm script needs to be told which Amazon to use:

     Amazon.co.uk
     amazonsearch.cgi?keyword=+<%category_clean%>&whichamazon=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk&mymode=first&tag=AssociateID

     Amason.com
     amazonsearch.cgi?keyword=+<%category_clean%>&whichamazon=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com&mymode=first&tag=AssociateID

3. Change AssociateID to your Amazon Associate ID. 

That's it :-)

Let me know if these instructions work! I might have forgotten something.

John