[Ruggy]

I wanted to know if there was a script written for the shopping.com APL XML. I know nothing about XML, so I wanted to see if someone knew of a way around XML via a known script.

[grafman]

Its not clear what you are looking for. Be more specific in what you want to do rather than focus on scripts or XML.

[Ruggy]

I am looking for a script to handle the Shopping.com XML API.

[grafman]

Restating an already unclear statement doesn't give anyone much more to go on. That's like saying "I want to do something with the Google" API. You give a very clear message that you want to do something with the search engine but not what you want to do.

If there is already an API then that means you want your script to do something specific with it. What is it you want to do "specifically" with the Shopping API? Do you want a new cart, do you want to tie some other type of data into an existing cart?

[Ruggy]

My mistake. I want the script to make the API to relay results in like a banner format where I can place the banner, like a 728x90 on various pages of my site.

[grafman]

Have you looked into Shopping.com's widgets? I've done a little work on building a parser for their XML feed for a client but haven't seen the widgets library they are now providing. The feature you are asking for might just be in there.

If not, then its a fairly straight forward process to send a sample feed to someone and describe how you want it parsed. The API will let them break out the pieces and decide what part will go into your banner. Then you can use some of their default xsl transforms that you can get from the partner site, or have a web designer create their own.

So if you have pages that display products now, all you need to do is create a couple new php functions or a simple class that would build the banner and either apply an xslt template or process the raw XML data into html.

I don't have access so I can't be any more specific at this point as to what is available.

[555five]

If you are interested, I saw the hotscripts.com free script working with Shopping.com API. Write your partner ID and get a site similar to shopping.com
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/68907.html