=== Amazon Product Widget ===
Contributors: PHPFluesterer
Donate link: https://flattr.com/profile/phpfluesterer
Tags: amazon, books, product, widget, asin, isbn, isbn-13
Requires at least: 2.8
Tested up to: 3.3.1
Stable tag: 1.2.0

This plugin provides a multi-widget, which displays a random product (like a book) from a given list of Amazon product numbers (ASIN).

== Description ==
This plugin provides a sidebar widget to display a random product from a list of ASINs or a single product. The plugin 
makes use of the Amazon Web-Service (AWS) to retrieve detailed data of a product. The plugin supports HTML-Templates to
display the product and makes use of a simple caching functionality. So the data is only requested once.

== Installation ==
1. Download the plugin
2. Upload the plugin to your wp-content/plugins directory
3. Activate the plugin
4. Configure the plugin (Region, Associate-ID, AWS public key and AWS private key)
5. Drag widget to a sidebar
6. Enter "Title" and a "List" of Amazon product ASIN numbers and optional edit the HTML-template

Important:
The plugin does not work without an Amazon Associate-ID!
If you don't have an Amazon Associate-ID, feel free to use mine - "phpfluesterer-21" (without the quotation marks). 
Or apply here for your own: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/flex/associates/apply-login.html

== Frequently Asked Questions == 
Q: 
I tried to install the Amazon Product Widget-Plugin and am getting the following error while trying to save configuration:
file_get_contents() failed. Please ensure that PHP's native function file_get_contents() is allowed to read URL's
Configuration could not be saved!

A:
The Amazon Product Widget make use of the PHP function "file_get_contents()" to read data from the Amazon API. 
But sometimes the default PHP configuration (php.ini) does not allow to read URLs due to security reasons. 
Change the value of "allow_url_fopen" to "1". 
More information about this issue: http://www.php.net/manual/en/filesystem.configuration.php#ini.allow-url-fopen

== Upgrade Notice ==
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== Screenshots ==

1. This screen shows an example of how the Amazon Product could be displayed in your Blog
2. This screen shows the configuration screen of the Plugin
3. This screen shows the configuration screen of a Widget

== Changelog ==

= 1.2.0 =
* added support for Amazon China (CN) and Amazon Spain (ES)
* added requirements-check. Now the plugin checks for example if "allow_url_open" 
  is activated and shows a warning if the requirements are not fulfilled.
* changed links to Amazons affiliate site(s) to SSL (https://)
* changed label "AWS public key" to "AWS Access Key ID" and label "AWS private key" to 
  "AWS Secret Access Key" (plugin configuration screen)

= 1.1.0 =
* fixed Amazon(r) AWS API requests to match the new standard (November 1, 2011):
  added missing "AssociateTag"-Parameter to request
  https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html

= 1.0.0 =
* initial release 

== Support ==
This plugin is free and I expect nothing in return. If you wish to support my programming, flattr me https://flattr.com/profile/phpfluesterer 
or buy me a book from my amazon wishlist http://www.amazon.de/registry/wishlist/NBTGYBOFGAU. Thank you!