Archive for January, 2010

store designer database driven ebay listings

January 29th, 2010

After looking how frooition produce their ebay templates, I wondered if it was possible to produce dynamic ebay lisings, basically this would enable you to aler youe ebay listing, without having to even touch ebay or use their api,

Well after two days of playing around with php, mysql and javascript, I came up with the following listing template

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=250570029692&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

The title, pictures and description are all pulled from a mysql database, meaning you can alter the listing from your own backend on your website.

The categories and items are all produced via the ebay api, and can be updated at any time

This is more proof on concept rather than a working enviroment,