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Carousel Widget: Similar Books

As part of another project, I've had a need for a little routine that will populate a carousel widget with 'related books' (as defined by Amazon!) given a particular ISBN.

The routine can be found at ./similarCarousel.php.

It come with a couple of arguments (to date):

• isbn - the ISBN of the book you want to find related items for;


• size - the "width" (i.e. number of book covers displayed at any one time) in the carousel.

For example, ./similarCarousel.php?isbn=0131401602&size=3 gives:

If you do make use of this widget, and you have your own Amazon affiliate/associate ID you want to use with it, I'd appreciate it if you'd add a little function that makes 1 in 10 at random referrals using the ID provided in the script in a click sharing sort of way.

This is something I will add anyway in the next week or two if I get a chance (I'll also factor in the ID of Bill Scott - author of the carousel widget - if he has one and I can get hold of it...). But if I don't get a chance to make this hack, and you can figure out how to make it so yourself, please do so... (It's late now and I need to go to bed...)

Posted by ajh59 at August 6, 2006 01:57 AM