API

There are two public methods available:

awSearchProducts() and awBrowseProducts():

/* Performs searches for keywords and merchants products and returns the results */

awSearchProducts(affiliateID,affiliatePassword,startNum,limit,pathToScript,merchantID,categoryID,keywords,minprice,maxprice,orderby)

@param int - (affiliateID) Affiliate Id of the user - COMPULSORY
@param string - (affiliatePassword) Affiliate's password - COMPULSORY
@param int - (startNum) Start Number used for results that span multiple screens (not normally changed by the user) - COMPULSORY
@param int - (limit) limit the number of results returned per screen. Valid values between 1 and 200. Values higher than 200 will be limited to 200 - COMPULSORY
@param string - (pathToScript) Specifies where the program displaying results is, relative to the web document root eg, /index.php  - COMPULSORY
@param int - (merchantID) Id of the merchant whose results you would like to restrict the search to OPTIONAL
@param int - (categoryID) ID of the category to search for results in - OPTIONAL
@param string - (keywords) Keywords to search for - OPTIONAL
@param int - (minprice) Minimum price - OPTIONAL
@param int - (maxprice) Maximum price - OPTIONAL
@param string - (orderby) Order Results By - OPTIONAL

/*Browse a particular category or view the top level categories in the dataset */

awBrowseProducts(affiliateID,affiliatePassword,startNum,limit,pathToScript,categoryID,orderby)

@param int - (affiliateID) Affiliate Id of the user - COMPULSORY
@param string - (affiliatePassword) Affiliate's password - COMPULSORY
@param int - (startNum) Start Number used for results that span multiple screens (not normally changed by the user) - OPTIONAL
@param int - (limit) limit the number of results returned per screen. Valid values between 1 and 200. Values higher than 200 will be limited to 200 - COMPULSORY
@param string - (pathToScript) Specifies where the program displaying results is, relative to the web document root eg, /index.php  - COMPULSORY
@param int - (categoryID) ID of the category to search for results in - OPTIONAL - if no categoryID is present the top level categories will be returned
@param string - (orderby) how to order listings (see config file for allowable values) OPTIONAL