Use AALB’s ‘text’ value in AAL’s Custom Templates

Hi,

Not sure exactly what you are looking for but sounds like you want to convert AALB text shortcodes into Amazon Auto Links outputs.

You should try the development version v4.0.0b.

1. Install and activate the development version (v4.0.0b07).
2. Go to Dashboard -> Amazon Auto Links -> Templates and activate Text.
3. Go to Dashboard -> Amazon Auto Links -> Settings -> 3rd Party -> Amazon Associates Link Builder and enable it.
4. Add a template conversion item with ProductLink (AALB) -> Text (AAL) in the Template Conversion option.

Let me know if this works for you or not. If it’s not what you are looking for, post the exact shortcode with parameters which you want to convert.

Hello,

That’s close to what we need! However, it returns a few things we don’t want (the item description from Amazon, namely).

In a custom template, I’m trying to grab the value for ‘text=’ from AALB’s old shortcode. So, “Race Ramps RR-40” in the following example:

[amazon_textlink asin='B003ZA8WIE' text='Race Ramps RR-40' template='ProductLink' store='storetaghere-20' marketplace='US' link_id='94c08f05-187c-4745-b4cf-31f08815468c']

Is there some type of PHP code I could use in place of ((Link_Text_Here)) in the custom template code I have so far:

<?php foreach( $aProducts as $_aProduct ) : ?>

<a href="<?php echo esc_url( $_aProduct[ 'product_url' ] ); ?>" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">
	((Link_Text_Here))
</a>

<?php endforeach; ?> 

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by robicus.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by robicus.

So you are writing a custom template.

Is an item description inserted with the Text template? It shouldn’t though. You should check the default Item Format option for the Text template. Go to Dashboard -> Amazon Auto Links -> Settings -> Default -> Template. Select Text and in Output Formats -> Item Format, if %description% is inserted, remove it.

It should be something like

<a href="%href%" title="%title_text%: %description_text%" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">%title_text%</a>

If you still need to go with a custom template, maybe try

echo $aArguments[ 'product_title' ];

You can check the variable contents with the Debug template by the way.

That worked! This will be really helpful with our custom templates moving forward. Removing the %description% from Item Format also worked for your provided ‘Text’ template.

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