Extension talk:MarketResearch

Todo

• Cache and check modified date before retrieving entire content
• Add args for max description length, and max results

Input

<marketresearch>term-1,term-2,term-n</marketresearch>

might want to do

<marketresearch>term-1+term-2+term-n</marketresearch>

to make it neater.

The usual way to have many items in a tag are with separate lines,

<marketresearch>
term-1
term-2
term-n
</marketresearch>

--nad 09:39, 12 July 2008 (NZST)

<php>$keywords = preg_split('/[\x00-\x1f+,]+/', trim($input));</php> This allows any of the forms above --nad 21:52, 12 July 2008 (NZST)

which will give formatted data from

http://www.marketresearch.com/feed/search_results.asp?bquery=computers&partnerid=951781402

just one term is fine for now, have a call in to see how they handle multiple.... --Phalseid 05:47, 11 July 2008 (NZST)

multiple is done in the form foo+bar:

http://www.marketresearch.com/feed/search_results.asp?bquery=computers+monitor&partnerid=951781402

--Phalseid 02:52, 12 July 2008 (NZST)

Process

the parsing needs to give

• the <TITLE>
• a snippet of the article(s)<DESCRIPTION></DESCRIPTION>
• the product id which is BUY id from the resultant XML file... (<BUY id=xxxxx)

Output

shows the title, description, and a link to buy it...

http://www.marketresearch.com/feed/cart/addtocart.asp?partnerid=951781402&productid=xxxxxxx

--Phalseid

Development

The current version is working and tested, check it out and give me some feedback. Its not caching yet, so there's quite a delay on page load and it will fail if the feed doesn't return valid xml etc. To use it include it like normal and set you partner id as in the following example: <php> include("$IP/extensions/MarketResearch.php"); $wgMarketResearchPartner = "951781402"; </php> The rendered output is in the following format, design aspects should be made as CSS rules in MediaWiki:Common.css.

<div class="marketresearch">
	<div class="marketresearch-item">
		<h3>Men's and Boys' Clothing</h3>
		<p>This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Men's & Boy's Clothing in Millions of US$.
		The specific product segments analyzed are Suits, Coats & Jackets, Shirts, T-Shirts, Trousers,
		Slacks and Jean...</p>
		<ul>
			<li><a href="...addtocart.asp?partnerid=951781402&productid=1281401">1281401</a></li>
		</ul>
	</div>
	<div class="marketresearch-item">
		<h3>Fashion and Media - UK</h3>
		<p>Fashion brands and retailers have a long-standing relationship with women's magazines and,
		more recently, with men's magazines. Television has been used to a lesser extent, particularly
		as it is very ...</p>
		<ul>
			<li><a href="...addtocart.asp?partnerid=951781402&productid=1089359">1089359</a></li>
			<li><a href="...addtocart.asp?partnerid=951781402&productid=1089358">1089358</a></li>
		</ul>
	</div>
	<div class="marketresearch-item">
		<h3>Clothing Retailing - UK</h3>
		<p>The clothing sector is the second largest in UK retail. The influx of value fashion has forced
		the specialists to re-think their value proposition, with the mid-market in particular feeling the
		squeez...</p>
		<ul>
			<li><a href="...addtocart.asp?partnerid=951781402&productid=1562450">1562450</a></li>
			<li><a href="...addtocart.asp?partnerid=951781402&productid=1562451">1562451</a></li>
			<li><a href="...addtocart.asp?partnerid=951781402&productid=1562452">1562452</a></li>
		</ul>
	</div>
</div>

Jump Page

Some new changes. the API supplier is requiring us to use a "Jumppage" File:Jumppage.pdf. Please take a look at this and email me your revised quote for financial and chronological requirements.--Phalseid 06:19, 17 July 2008 (NZST)

sure...search string --> <---xml--> results in article --->jumppage (details of selected article)

• pending approval: getting the cart from MR, adding link to wiki, and jump page with article and details and back button, cart button, and search?
• Jump page would probly be best as an unlisted specialpage which is linked to by the buy links
• An extra tag added for rendering links to the shopping cart so that it can be added to nav or personal urls etc