Although I had to overcome a lot of difficulties with Amazon’s API I never gave up and completed another mashup. Alas as time as passed many APIs have become more restrictive so a decade later I can’t really recommend using the code I’ve written…

Although I’m not happy with the track listing portion. I wanted to get previews of the songs on the album and I thought I could get this information from Amazon Product API, I even found an example of what needed to be done, but I couldn’t get it to work. I asked for some help on their forum, but no one replied. Eventually I moved on to using a variety of other APIs…

As someone who has written and given away way too much PHP code, there are definitely bigger priorities than ensuring your open source PHP code works perfectly, forever. People have lives offline. They have commitments. There is a need to make a living so although I’m still not the biggest PHP fan, my mashup codebase remains available, but it is a shadow of its former self, these old blog posts remind me of the struggles and accomplishments I made coding alone online back in the day…

I never set out to write this much PHP code. But after seeing what passes for a PHP API to access Amazon Product Information, well I vowed to do a good job on my PHP class, even though it was intended for my own personal use. I had modest goals at the beginning I just wanted to take a list of CDs I own and produce a gallery of album covers…