ebay api displaying items from pacific store

SariRahal
November 12, 2014
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2 Answers

I am new to api’s and ebays api. What i am trying to do is select items from a spacific store on ebay (http://stores.ebay.com/Nu-Tek-Sales : or userID : machinre_nuteksalesparts)

Currently it grabs 3 random items of off ebay. I think that I am using the wrong variable for the userID b/c if i set it to anything, I get the same results. Any help in the right direction would be nice. Thank you

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<title>Merchandising Tutorial Sample</title>
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<?php
// Turn on all errors, warnings and notices for easier PHP debugging
error_reporting(E_ALL);

// Define global variables and settings
$m_endpoint = 'http://svcs.ebay.com/MerchandisingService?';  // Merchandising URL to call
$appid = 'My-account-ID';  // You will need to supply your own AppID
$responseEncoding = 'XML';  // Type of response we want back

// Create a function for the getMostWatchedItems call
function getMostWatchedItemsResults ($selectedItemID = '', $cellColor = '') {
global $m_endpoint;
global $appid;
global $responseEncoding;

// Construct getMostWatchedItems call with maxResults and categoryId as input
$apicalla  = "$m_endpoint";
$apicalla .= "OPERATION-NAME=getMostWatchedItems";
$apicalla .= "&SERVICE-VERSION=1.0.0";
$apicalla .= "&CONSUMER-ID=$appid";
$apicalla .= "&RESPONSE-DATA-FORMAT=$responseEncoding";
$apicalla .= "&maxResults=3";
$apicalla .= "&userID=machinre_nuteksalesparts";

// Load the call and capture the document returned by eBay API
$resp = simplexml_load_file($apicalla);

// Check to see if the response was loaded, else print an error
if ($resp) {
    // Set return value for the function to null
    $retna = '';

    // Verify whether call was successful
    if ($resp->ack == "Success") {

        // If there were no errors, build the return response for the function
        $retna .= "<h1>Top 3 Most Watched Items in the ";
        $retna .=  $resp->itemRecommendations->item->primaryCategoryName;
        $retna .= " Category</h1> n";

        // Build a table for the 3 most watched items
        $retna .= "<!-- start table in getMostWatchedItemsResults --> n";
        $retna .= "<table width="100%" cellpadding="5" border="0"><tr> n";

        // For each item node, build a table cell and append it to $retna
        foreach($resp->itemRecommendations->item as $item) {

            // Determine which price to display
            if ($item->currentPrice) {
                $price = $item->currentPrice;
            } else {
                $price = $item->buyItNowPrice;
            }

            // For each item, create a cell with imageURL, viewItemURL, watchCount, currentPrice
            $retna .= "<td valign="bottom"> n";
            $retna .= "<img src="$item->imageURL"> n";
            $retna .= "<p><a href="" . $item->viewItemURL . "">" . $item->title . "</a></p>n";
            $retna .= 'Watch count: <b>' . $item->watchCount . "</b><br> n";
            $retna .= 'Current price: <b>$' . $price . "</b><br><br> n";
            $retna .= "</td> n";
        }
        $retna .= "</tr></table> n<!-- finish table in getMostWatchedItemsResults --> n";

    } else {
        // If there were errors, print an error
        $retna = "The response contains errors<br>";
        $retna .= "Call used was: $apicalla";

    }  // if errors

} else {
    // If there was no response, print an error
    $retna = "Dang! Must not have got the getMostWatchedItems response!<br>";
    $retna .= "Call used was: $apicalla";
}  // End if response exists

// Return the function's value
return $retna;

} // End of getMostWatchedItemsResults function

// Display the response data
print getMostWatchedItemsResults('', '');

?>

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