What is McJiffy EASy good for?

  • Adding a Store to Your Site
  • Domain Parking
  • Stand Alone Site

How much does McJiffy EASy Cost?

Absolutely nothing. McJiffy is released as an open source project under the LGPL license.

What if I have questions about McJiffy EASy?

The easiest way to get your questions answered is to use the McJiffy Forum. There you can ask question and hopefully get answers.

Documentation

Submitted by matt on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 01:48.

The McJiffy EASy (eBay Affiliate Store) program is a quick and easy way to create a storefront based on of eBay's affiliate program. To use McJiffy EASy, you will need two eBay accounts. One for the eBay Developer program and another for the eBay Affiliate program.

How McJiffy EASy Works

When the EASy page is loaded, it makes two calls: one to the eBay API for related keywords and a second one to the eBay RSS to pull in item data.

For related keywords, EASy first looks in the "cache/keyword" directory to see if the related keywords are already cached. If the cache does have a current record for the related keywords, this cache file is used and the call to the eBay API is skipped. If no current cache file is found, a call to the eBay API finds the related keywords. This result of the API call is saved in the "cache/keywords" directory for 7 days. If you are doing multi-site hosting, all of your sites have access to the related keyword cache.

The second call is for the eBay RSS feed. The current keyword is sent to the eBay RSS service and then prep'd for output. This RSS feed is cached in the "cache/[campaign id]" directory for 5 minutes. This allows for a user to page through all the results with EASy not needing to re-download the RSS feed. The cache of this RSS feed is only accessible to sites with the same eBay campaign id.

All product links are cloaked. The link in the eBay RSS is modified to redirect back through the EASy script. This allows for a nicer url that does not look like an affiliate link.

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