[Typo3-dev] Help needed with Backend-Programming for Book Database

[Mario Birkigt]

Mathias Schreiber [wmdb>] schrieb:
> Mario Birkigt wrote:
> 
>> you're right, except that i retrieve the html-page from amazon and 
>> parse it with regular expressions.
> 
> 
> I strongly suggest you use the free XML services by amazon.
> Simply open up a bookshop at amazon and you will be able to get XML 
> envelopes from amazon - much easier to parse (t3lib_div::xml2array) and 
> much less hassle.
> 
The Book Database is not intended to be used for a book shop. I think i 
looked at the XML services earlier and they wrote something about a fee 
for the use of this services, that they could want in the future. 
Perhaps this has changed.
>> Ok, now i know, that i'm on the right way. I haven't figured out yet, 
>> how to interact with the tceform, how to start the needed action and 
>> how to fill in the values. Perhaps i'm too dumb for it.
> 
> 
> Take a look at the colorpicker wizard (search for 
> wizard_colorpicker.php, not sure about the path).
> This will work
> 
> 
Thank you for this hint. I will take a look at the sourcecode of this 
wizard.

Greetings from Leipzig

Mario