This article explains what the mosAPF Joomla plugin is and how it can be used to incorporate Amazon product details into your Joomla content items (articles).

mosAPF is a Joomla Plugin (formerly mambots) that helps you make more from your Amazon Products Feed Bridge generated store.

If you need more background info on Joomla, Plugins, APF Bridge or MrRat's APF please follow these links:

•     more info on Joomla the Open Source Content Management System.
•     more background Joomla Plugins / Mambots.
•     more info about Amazon Products Feed Bridge
•     more info about MrRat's Amazon Products Feed
•     more info on the Amazon Associates Programme

My Plugin mosAPF:

This is where it gets interesting - obviously I am not educating you about what a plugin (mambot) is just for the sake of my health. I have made a plugin that works in tandem with APF Bridge and even if I do say so myself I believe it to be a real gem (potentially at least).

The problem:

You have content, you have an online store showing ALL of Amazon's content.You need two things:
1) To get the visitor who is reading your content to view your store
2) To get the visitor in the store to see the products related to your theme or topic - after all if they are interested in the subject they are pre-qualified for related products, but you risk losing them amongst the unrelated products.

The Ideal Product Integration Solution

So can we define what our ideal solution should look like or behave like. In an ideal world how would you best like to link your content to your Amazon product recommendations?

• Wouldn't it be nice if you could easily build links from your content to your store?
• Wouldn't it be absolutely fantastic if you could incorporate product details into your content?
• Would you like to hand pick a list of 10 specific products
• How about just set a search term and product category and have Amazon pick the products you link to?
• What about if you could incorporate multiple sets of 10 products into one page?
• What about you select 20 or more products and 10 are picked at random from that list?
• How about if the products in your content could have a buy button that either took the shopper direct to Amazon or added the products to a cart on your site?

mosAPF - The Joomla Plugin that integrates your content and your 'Amazon Products Feed Bridge' generated store.

Which of these features do you really want?

Well there is no need to choose - the mosAPF plugin was built to try and meet my own needs and to meet the needs as expressed to me in your feedback. It is my intention that the plugin will do all of the above - and more besides.

Current Status Of the mosAPF plugin

The plugin - like the APF Bridge itself is still in Beta. If your website is your livelihood then you are probably best advised not to instal this plugin or the APF Bridge component itself. If you do choose to proceed you will probably want to tread carefully and test thoroughly.

So how must does the mosAPF Amazon plugin (mambot) cost? 

Enough of the sales pitch already tell us how much mosAPF costs already - and how much it will cost in the future.

I can't guarantee that this will always be the case - but it is certainly my intention at present that APF Bridge and the mosAPF plugin (mambot) will remain free to use. Now if you have the content and you use this component and its associated plugin and modules correctly you should make some noticeable money. I ask that you remember your friends when this happens. Please read the next  block where I lay it on a little stronger.

The Part Where I Beg 

I have only just taken up development again, and frankly I can't spare too much time to the development process or to the development of this site. If I am to justify increasing the development effort I need to switch time away from client work - and that obviously implies a cost to me. I am not going to get heavy about it - but if development is to continue I will need your support. If the Amazon Products Feed Bridge and its associated modules and plugins works for you - and you make some money please remember me come quarterly associate fee payment time

Do Not Forget MrRat

Don't forget that none of this would be possible if it wasn't for the mysterious MrRat - the internet phenominon who does all the really clever stuff. My component, mambot and modules only link to the external script that he produces. This script does the really clever stuff - I just 'bridge' between Joomla and Amazon Products Feed - when you make it rich don't forget to spread some of the wealth in his direction.