PHP Toolkit

Auctionfeed PHP Toolkit lies at the heart of a conceptual framework for building eBay powered Web applications. Full integration with Joomla!, the award winning CMS, makes it possible to create attractive custom interfaces for business management or reporting tools and facilitates content generation in multiple formats (XHTML, text or XML) for affiliate marketing campaigns.

Download due for release May 2010!

The toolkit builds upon the Joomla! Web application framework and is packaged as a Joomla! component (com_auctionfeed) to make installation and configuration trivial. Once installed, you can manage essential settings, inspect XML documents and debug HTTP responses from the administrative interface and use the code libraries (uploaded during installation) to build applications.

Front end applications, support and code examples are available at the official AuctionFeed website: http://auctionfeed.co.uk.

Key Benefits

• Quick and easy installation.
• Manage application keys and settings through an intuitive GUI.
• Inspect XML and JSON response documents.
• Debug errors by viewing HTTP response headers.
• Modular functionality: can be easily extended.
• Full Joomla! integration brings all the inherited benefits of an award winning CMS.

Who Should Use It?

AuctionFeed PHP Toolkit is aimed at developers and power users who have some knowledge of eBay Web Services and those who are prepared to spend time referring to the eBay developer program documentation. It is an administrative and development interface and is not intended to be an interface that can be viewed by website visitors or users without admin privileges. AuctionFeed PHP Toolkit provides the tools to help you build your own such applications. Some knowledge of PHP is required.

API Support

The following apis are supported:

• Client Alerts
• Merchandising
• Research
• Shopping

Requirements

• A working version of Joomla! (version 1.5.x)
• PHP 5 with cURL

Getting Started

• Download and install AuctionFeed PHP Toolkit component.
• Sign up for the eBay Developer’s Program and get an Application ID.
• Login to your admin interface and add your API keys to the AuctionFeed PHP Toolkit component.
• Read eBay documentation related to the API calls you are interested in.
• Enter API call options in the appropriate form and inspect the information returned by eBay.

How Do I Use It?

1. Choose an API to make a call. For example 'shopping'.
2. Choose an API call from the list. See Fig 1.
3. Enter call options into the form. Enter each key/value pair on a new line. e.g MessageID=SomeStringHere. See Fig 2.
4. Click submit to view data returned in response to your request. See Fig 3.

Useful Links

• Joomla!
• eBay Developer Documentation
• eBay Developer Program