Add token support for automatic node title

Me too! I'd love to use the various amazon metadata that is available, but can't figure out how.

I just tried the auto nodetitle trick and had no success. The title only has a dash ('-') in it.

Attached is a screen shot and here is the code I am using. I changed it a bit to add the word "Book Review: " at the beginning of the title.

  $asin    = _amazon_clean_type($node->field_asin[0]['value']);
  $_amazon = amazon_item_lookup($asin);
  $amazon  = $_amazon[$asin];
  $author = "";
  for ( $i=0; $i<count($amazon['author']); $i++ ) {
    if ( $i > 0 ) { $ownTitle .= ", "; }
    $author .= $amazon['author'][$i];
  }
  if ( strlen($amazon) > 40 && count($amazon['author']) > 1 ) {
    $author = $amazon['author'][0] . "...";
  }
  $ownTitle .= "Book Review: ".$author." - ".$amazon['title'];
  print $ownTitle;

Sorry. Here are three more screen shots they should have what you need (I hope!)

Hmm...very disappointing but it doesn't work :( I even tried deleting my original field and created a new one called "field_asin" but I get the same thing, a title with just a dash in it.

I created a new textfield called "asin" so I am using "field_asin" in the autotitle-form.

Thanks tirsales. It works now! I was using an amazon text field.

I am resurrecting this thread :)

I noticed that when I use this code in my auto title that it only generates the titles for books but not for movies or cds

  $asin    = _amazon_clean_type($node->field_asin[0]['asin']);
  $_amazon = amazon_item_lookup($asin);
  $amazon  = $_amazon[$asin];
  $author = "";
  for ( $i=0; $i<count($amazon['author']); $i++ ) {
    if ( $i > 0 ) { $author .= ", "; }
    $author .= $amazon['author'][$i];
  }
  if ( strlen($author) > 40 && count($amazon['author']) > 1 ) {
    $author = $amazon['author'][0] . "...";
  }
  $ownTitle = "Review: ".$amazon['title'];
  print $ownTitle;

Trying to see what I'm doing wrong, I'd love to get auto nodetitle to work this way. I'm getting nothing to show up when I rebuild my nodetitles.

<?php
  $asin    = _amazon_clean_type($node->field_amazonitem[0]['asin']);
  $_amazon = amazon_item_lookup($asin);
  $amazon  = $_amazon[$asin];
  $author = "";
 
  $ownTitle = $amazon['title'];
  print $ownTitle;
?>

I've attached screengrabs of my content-type settings

any help would be greatly appreciated!

Do you have evaluate php in patterns turned on? http://drupal.org/files/issues/Picture%204_75.png

Yes, I do, sorry that wasn't included the picture.

When I add a book I get the $amazon variable if I choose a CD (I choose a beatles cd) I get empty - no data at all :(

I assume I have the correct ASIN because the cd cover, artist, etc is put into my node

Ok. I solved my problem.

When you enter an asin that relates to a cd or movie the asin value listed on amazon's website is all uppercase but then it gets converted to all lower case in $asin so you have to make $asin uppercase as per:

  $asin    = strtoupper(_amazon_clean_type($node->field_asin[0]['asin']));
  $_amazon = amazon_item_lookup($asin);
  $amazon  = $_amazon[$asin];
  $ownTitle = "Review: ".$amazon['title'];
  print $ownTitle;

@tirsales

awesome, this worked for me. I'm not sure if something was wrong with my code or if it was because I didn't have the php evaluation module enabled...

Note that an ASIN is not a guarantee that the item will always be available from Amazon. It's quite normal that an ASIN disappears from Amazon, meaning that it's orphaned in your node on Drupal.

Marking this 'fixed', but I will add token support as a feature request in the D7 port list.

Two questions related to this.

I'm using the code in post #14 - the version for the amazon field type. It works just as expected. EXCEPT there is at least one ASIN that doesn't work. It finds the information for the post, but the title doesn't work. I'm using amazon.co.uk and the particular ASIN is 193339742X

Using the amazon module test page with this ASIN works as expected, picture attached, but the title doesn't work at all.

Any thoughts?

Second question - is it possible to modify the code to use the 13 figure ISBN number as the input?

Thanks.

@Edward Andrews: Please use the current version, if you're not already.

If you're having trouble doing a test on a specific ASIN, please (with the current version) do it and then follow the link to the error log and report the results.

The current version of Amazon module does ISBN-13. See the project page

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I'm trying to utilize the snippet in comment 14. My field name is aisbn. The snippet I'm using is:

  $asin    = _amazon_clean_type($node->field_aisbn[0]['asin']);
  $_amazon = amazon_item_lookup($asin);
  $amazon  = $_amazon[$asin];
  $author = "";
  for ( $i=0; $i<count($amazon['author']); $i++ ) {
    if ( $i > 0 ) { $author .= ", "; }
    $author .= $amazon['author'][$i];
  }
  if ( strlen($author) > 40 && count($amazon['author']) > 1 ) {
    $author = $amazon['author'][0] . "...";
  }
  $ownTitle = "Book Review: ".$author." - ".$amazon['title'];
  print $ownTitle;

I've tried numerous variations, but, all I ever get is Book Review: and no title or author. I've tried several ISBN numbers. The content is displayed properly with the appropriate book. But, the node title always comes out as just Book Review:.

I've attached a snapshot of my field list and also the automatic title section. It must be something simple that I'm doing wrong, but, I just can't spot it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thx.

Perhaps someone might be able to point me in the right direction. I've done some further work with this snippet. I've determined that it works fine for ten digit ISBN numbers, with or without leading zeroes. However, it does not work for 10 or 13 digit ISBN numbers with embedded hyphens. Also, it does not work at all for 13 digit ISBN numbers. I'm using version 6.x-1.0-rc3 of the Amazon module. My content works fine. The only thing that is a problem is this issue with Auto Nodetitles. Thanks in advance.

@hojoeast, the current version does fine with ISBN 13-digit ISBN numbers, and it accepts embedded dashes.

If you have an example or a specific problem, please open another issue. I'll do my best to resove it.

Thanks,
-Randy

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For anyone else who doesn't want to turn on PHP filter, you can try the following in a custom module to get a token to use for autotitle.

/**
 * Implementation of hook_token_list()
 */
function [MODULE]_token_list($type = 'all') {
	if($type) == 'node' {
			$tokens['[MODULE]']['amazontitle'] = t('Amazon Title');
	}
	return $tokens;
}

/**
 * Implementation of hook_token_values()
 */
function [MODULE]_token_values($type, $object = NULL, $options = array()) {
	if($type ==  'node') {
			$asin = $object->field_isbn[0]['asin']; 
			//field_isbn is my content type's amazon field name. Change it if yours is different
			$itemArr = amazon_item_lookup($asin);
			$item = $itemArr[$asin];
			$values['amazontitle'] = $item['title'];
	}
	return $values;
}

Correct code for this use case (auto_nodetitle with an ASIN CCK field) is in #991994-3: Using Auto NodeTitle with an Amazon CCK field to generate title (and using ISBN-13). The code in this issue has some oddities (unneeded _amazon_clean_type(), etc.)

How can I add the ISBN to the title for books?

In the case of books, a 10-digit ASIN is the ISBN number....
This code will work assuming the ASIN field is named field_isbn. Note that the ISBN is not formatted.

    if (!empty($node->field_isbn[0]['asin'])) {
      $asin = $node->field_isbn[0]['asin'];    // Get the asin from the field
      $asin = amazon_convert_to_asin($asin);  // Turn ISBN-13, etc into ASIN. Needed only if ISBNs are allowed
      // dsm($asin, 'found asin');
      $items = amazon_item_lookup($asin);   // Get the full data.
      // dsm($items, '$items');
      if (count($items)) {
        print $items[$asin]['title'] . " (ISBN " . $items[$asin]['isbn'] . ')';
        return;
      }
    }
    print t("No Amazon item can be used to generate title, so this is the bogus title (node @nid)", array('@nid' => $node->nid));

You can access any of the values shown on admin/settings/amazon/test.

#42 worked for me, thanks.

This token and others should be added to the module.

I actually never have figured out how the (existing) token support in ASIN module is useful, since it's not clear which field in a multivalued field creates the token. #42 assumes in advance that it knows the name and number of the specific CCK field on the page to use. General code does not know that.

Setting this to "fixed", but if somebody wants to make a specific proposal or provide a patch, please open a new issue.

Anyone who needs this functionality, please go to #1043030: D6: Improved token support (especially for Automatic Node Titles) and test the patch. Post any issues you encounter with the patch there.

(Make sure you download the latest one. Don't use the first one posted. It had mistakes.)