Version 2 of ASM came incorporated with programming parameters that will enable you to set up your ASMs (Amazon Store Manager) for Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de and Amazon.jp aside from Amazon.com itself. The standard template that comes with the download, however, is only created for the Amazon.com locale, and this, thus have to be slightly modified to suit each of the other locales.
The modification is very small and only entails the relacements of the Amazon Association graphic image, the linkbacks to the 'correct' Amazon in the 'Information' section of the menu and the "Buy from Amazon.com" button on the products page.
You can however, only set up ASM to only one locale per installation, meaning that you have to do a separate installation for each locale that you want to subscribe to. This, of course, can be on different TLDs (shop1.com, shop1.co.uk, shop1.de, shop1.fr), different domains (shop1us.com, shop1uk,com, shop1de.com, shop1fr.com) or on different subdirectories of your one domain (shopASM.com/us/, shopASM.com/uk/, shopASM.com/de/ and shopASM.com/jp/).
Unzip to separate sub or different folders
The proper way is of course to unzip the download into the respective folders or subdirectories on your harddisk. Give each folder a different name which you can relate to easily (asm-us, asm-uk, ask-de, asm-jp).
Edit the script/config.php file to configure each folder to the locale that you are setting it to:
You only need one 'subscription-id' for all your ASM installation, but your 'associate-id' is unique to the 'locale' that you are registered to. Change the '$AssociatesID' and the '$locale' accordingly.
Graphic images
The Amazon Association graphic images used for the US locale in the original download is stored in the script/ folder under the name a150X70b.gif. This image has to be replaced by first unloading the appropriate image from each Amazon locale and saving it in the same script/ folder.
You may 'save as' the new image under the same name as tho original (a150X70b.gif) and this will save you from having to change to the new file name in the template file (script/templates/header.tpl).
The other graphic image which you have to replace is the "Buy from Amazon.com" button to that of the locale that you setting up. The image file is located in the script/images folder and is named 'buy1.gif'.
Backlinks to Amazon
Next asertain that each locale (Amazon.com, .co.uk, .de, .fr) has the appropriate corresponding pages to the 'Payment Method', 'Shipping' and 'Safe Shopping' links as listed in the 'Information' section of your menu column.
What you need to acquire is the 'node number' of each 'Amazon page' you are browsing. This number is displayed within the URL that is being displayed in the location bar of your browser.
As an example, the node number of the page URL that your browser is showing :
Editing the Backlinks
The backlinks to Amazon information pages are hardcoded into the script/header.php fle.
Use your word editor to access the script/header.php file, look for the corrsponsing codes, as displayed below, and edit the locale and node numbers accordingly.
