TWP Auctions – the FREE eBay affiliate script
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TWP Auctions 3.0 RC2
TWP Auctions is a free script to display eBay Partner Network affiliate auctions on your Wordpress or PHP powered website. TWP Auctions can display auctions from all over the world using country codes (us, au, uk, etc…). It uses “nofollow” on all outbound links, and includes a blank “onmouseover” function that hides the rover link in the user’s status bar.
What’s new?
Version 3.0 now works with Dream Host, and many other hosts with CURL/PHP restrictions (PHP5 required).
Version 3 features:
- Compatible with Wordpress
- Can be limited to specific countries using country codes
- Can be limited to specific categories
- Can be limited to specific eBay sellers
- All links are “nofollow”
- Option to open links in a new window
- Blank mouseover text to hide rover links in the status bar
- XHTML valid (depending on auction content)
- Backwards compatible with TWP Auctions 2.1
- 100% free!
Downloads:
Version 3 RC2
* If you’ve got PHP 5 and CURL (which you probably do), then use this one! *
Harder, better, faster, stronger. Modified to work with Dream Host, and many other hosts with PHP restrictions. Has category, seller, country, and ‘open in new window’ options. Requires PHP 5 & CURL. Now even simpler – it’s only one file!
Version 2.2 beta
* If you’ve only got PHP 4, then use this one! *
Added category and seller options. Works for most people who are stuck with PHP 4, but still needs to be tested by more people (that means you!). Works with PHP 4 and above.
Version 2.1
This version has been tested by lots of people, and it works fine – but it’s not as elegant (haha!) as Version 3. Works with PHP 4 and above.
Installation instructions for TWP Auctions 3.0 RC2
TWP Auctions 3.0 RC2 requires PHP5!Note for Wordpress users: Before you install TWP Auctions, you’ll need to install the Exec-PHP plugin for Wordpress. Before you go any further, make sure Exec-PHP is working by making a test post, e.g. <?php echo "hello world"; ?>. If you can’t get it to work, check out the documentation at the Exec-PHP website.
1. Download and install TWP Auctions
Download TWP Auctions, then upload twpauctions.php to the root directory of your website or Wordpress blog.
2. Add auctions to a webpage or Wordpress post
Now make a new page or Wordpress post (do NOT use the visual editor!), and simply paste the following code where you want the auctions to appear. You’ll need to enter your own eBay Partner Network Campaign ID and keyword. Please see the readme.txt in the zip file for information on the additional options (country, seller, category etc).
<?phpThat’s it! Feel free to leave a comment below – but if you need help, or want a reply, then please post in the forum.
$epn_campaign_id = "000000";
$keyword = "keyword";
include "twpauctions.php";
?>
Comments
Freddy Teddy
March 13, 2008Thanks. Would be great to have those urls to ebay redirect so they dont appear to be links to ebay and of course nofollow.
Aldian Prakoso
March 20, 2008Thanks for the great plugin.
One question though, will it work with the new eBay affiliate program after it no longer uses CJ?
P.S. I wish there’s a “subscribe to comment” here so that I know when you reply :)
Kerosene
March 21, 2008Yes, I’ll be updating the script. Check back in early April for the updated version.
Book Owl
March 26, 2008I been thinking about applying for the ebay aff. program. I have bookmarked your site in case I do. Thanks for sharing your script with us! It looks awesome!
Claudio
April 6, 2008Great!!! Good work guys! Lets say i would like to use ebay uk or spain or italy, can i change something on the file? What part should i modify?
Thanks
Kerosene
April 6, 2008@ Claudio, at the moment it’s only for eBay US. I’ll be releasing a new version in the next few days that will let you specify the country.
Claudio
April 6, 2008Thanks Kerosene!!!
Nick
April 7, 2008Nice script, but when I run it I only get the price and pictures of the items, no title or discription. can you help.
Kerosene
April 10, 2008Nick, try the latest version. If you’re still having problems, please post in the forum where I can help you in more detail.
Nick
May 11, 2008Thamks Kerosene, had it working fine until a few days ago,
when all my rss scripts stopped working. All I get is a blank page or blank from where the script is to start and the page stops loading. This only happens with eBay, I’ve used other rss scripts and they work O.K. with amazon, news feeds and such, eBay rss is the only one that the problem, do I need to use a seperate cache. Or is my provider at fault. With MagicRss I get, caching disabled check your configuration, any ideas. Thanks once again nick.
TheDrake
July 26, 2008I’m using version 3 (beta) and it’s working fine. Thank you! :D
Nick Webs
August 1, 2008Thank you very must for your time in creating this small effective plugin. Its an excellent idea and very kind of you to allow others to share it. Good luck to you in future and keep up the great work.
Best Regards
Nick
Christy80
August 3, 2008It works! I’m going to put this on all my blogs. thank you!
Ronin
August 10, 2008Thank you for this. i am using it on my wordpress websites.
Adaptiv Media
August 17, 2008Is there any chance we could display just auction titles as text links etc.?
Caleb
August 31, 2008Can it be modified to use pepperjam-ebay id’s?
erick
September 8, 2008Dito for the pjn ebay id.
Kris
October 11, 2008Thanks for the great plugin. I was looking for an easy ebay plugin for wordpress and your script is what i need :)
Brian Williams
October 26, 2008Thanks for this, it may well come in handy!
Jarb
November 11, 2008Thanks for the new version with categories and Ebay Seller ID. This script is now ready to be offered for sale. With the simplicity, flexibility and universality this script now competes and surpasses any ebay wp plugin out there. Whoever got this script for free consider yourselves very lucky.
JoyceB
November 15, 2008Hi,
Thanks for this script. It is so easy to use. I set up my blog in no time with your great instructions. I am so glad I found TWP Auctions.
FitLine
February 28, 2009Cool tool. Works great! Thanks!
Tony Lee
March 7, 2009Thanks for sharing this great plugin. EPN is a great way to monetize your site!
FitLine
March 15, 2009Hey guys,
Thanks for this script. Used it, works great
adisa
March 26, 2009Does this work with a BANS site?
Kerosene
March 26, 2009@ adisa: It works with any PHP powered website.
Zulfikar
April 13, 2009Hi
I’ve installed the script and tried running it as per the instructions but am getting this error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: simplexml_load_string() in /home/sites/ebayconsoles.info/public_html/twpauctions.php on line 8
What am I doing wrong? Please advise
Kerosene
April 13, 2009@Zulfikar – you probably don’t have PHP5. Try one of the earlier versions of TWP Auctions.
Zulfikar
April 13, 2009First all many thanks for the prompt response and secondly you are right, my server was running on PHP4. Switched to PHP5 and all is working great.
Much obliged for your help and for this awesome plugin.
Cheers! :)
Susan
May 4, 2009Thanks so much for this great script! However, the blank onmouseover function only seems to work with IE, not Firefox. Also, It would be nice if we could define a minimum price, in case we don’t want to display the lower priced items, and a minimum number of bids, in case we only want to display items people are bidding on. Thanks again for this. I can’t believe it’s free! :-)
Affilate Tools
October 10, 2009This is seriously a sweet find! I’m not a huge fan of BANS and now I just found a free alternative thanks!
Chris
October 20, 2009I figured out how to get more than 10 items to display per page by adding &ipg=25 to the end of the RSS Feed 25 items per page I assume 10 50 ect will work. I am just now trying to figure out if I can pull more than 1 keyword
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