Using store window in web pages

Hi Neil,

You're welcome to use the store window on your website if you'd like. Then, when one of your customers clicks on an item in the store window, they'll be directed to that particular eBay listing.

-Mike

Hi Mike,

If I have the gallery on my own web page, when I click on an item it tries to open "http://www.mydomain.com/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1234567890".

My guess is that the gallery code is deliberately written this way (without absolute URLs) so that the same piece of code works on any listing on any eBay site.

The Vendio gallery will work on external web pages, but when you create a gallery you have to specify which eBay site it relates to, then presumably the full item URL is hard-coded into the HTML.

Let me know if I'm wrong, I'm using Dreamweaver to create the web page so it is possible that it is altering the URL somewhere in processing, but I think my first guess is probably right!

Cheers,
Neil

Hi Neil,

I may actually be wrong...but I'll look into it further. You can expect a response from me tomorrow.

-Mike

I'm interested in knowing the response to this also.

Any word on this? It would be good to know if I can use this outside of ebay. Thanks!

I was sucessfully using the store window on my web site, but had to pull it because the URL's started going haywire. My domain was inserted into the URL instead of going to the ebay listing...resulting in a 'file not found' error.

Hi all,

I'm sorry it took me so long to get back to you on this. I was ill on Friday and couldn't come in to the office.

Well, I just heard back from the engineering department and they confirmed that Flash based store window is "hardwired" for looking for items on the site it is located on. The store window was designed with this in mind, so it looks like our customers will be unable to use the store window on their personal web pages.

My apologies to anyone I have misinformed about this issue.

-Mike

That is so sad Can it be changed?

Hi Peach,

Unfortunately not=( ...that I know of.

-Mike

There is a workaround, as posted in the "404 not found" thread.

When you get your HTML code, do a search for the following string:

&baseurl='+escape(location.href.substring(0, location.href.lastIndexOf('/') + 1))

Delete it and replace it with an apostrophe.

This will now open the auction items on ebay.com instead of trying to open them on your own site.

I'm hoping that some code nut will know of a trick that I can use to open all my items on ebay.com.au - either a hard fix for that particular site, or a universal fix that will open all items on their native eBay site.

Any takers?!