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The Student Books, Book Search Widget

Grab hold of your pants...

What the heck is it?

Maybe you have a book or student related website. Maybe you don't. What you will need is a website. That's the hard part.

The easy part is copying and pasting either the html or php code below into your website to offer your visitors a book search feature. You can see a working widget below and in different colors at the bottom of the page:

Why should I bother?

Many reasons:

It's a great feature that your website visitors will use and appreciate
It's a small and sexy little search box which comes in 4 flavours
Only takes a copy and paste to install it on your website
Put the small search box anywhere on your site and take it off whenever you want
Configurable for 6 different countries (UK, US, Canada, Japan, France and Germany)
It's completely free
It can make you money

That's right, you can earn affiliate income.

You just need add an Amazon Associates ID to one place in the code below and you could be making over 5% of any book sales that go through the site.

When one of your website users searches for a book (by ISBN, keywords, book title or author), they are taken to a search results page. If the user clicks "buy" under an item on this page, you are credited with the full commission through Amazon's Associate program. If the user clicks to make a purchase in another part of the website then we are credited with any commission.

That's not only it! If a user clicks on "buy" with your affiliae code embedded, and then adds more products to their amazon shopping cart, then you will earn commission on all purchases.

That's it in a nutshell. If you don't have an Amazon Associates ID, visit the correct countries Amazon site and click the Associates link at the bottom of the page to sign up for free. If you have any questions about this or anything else, contact us. Otherwise please copy and paste either the html or the php code into your website to start offering your users a great feature and earning affiliate income at the same time.

The four colors

The PHP code

Just copy and paste the code in the box below inside one of your .php website pages. You may need to remove the <?php and ?> brackets if you are pasting the code inside a block of php code. You can also change the first 3 variables as commented in the code.

<?php

// choose a color scheme from these 4 only (white, blue, green, red) *lowercase only
$color = 'white';

// enter country code only as: (uk, us, ca, jp, fr, de) *lowercase only
$ext = 'ca';

// enter your amazon associate id inside quotes(example: 'tagname-21') or leave as is
// if using your own amazon associate code, it must be registered at the Amazon locale/country code above to earn commissions
$exttag = '';

//********************************************************************
// DON'T CHANGE ANY OF THE CODE UNDER HERE
//********************************************************************
// Student Books search code 03-02-2009 v1.0

if($ext == "uk"){ $initialtext = 'Search Books'; $rollovertext = 'New and used student textbooks at cheap prices'; }
elseif($ext == "us"){ $initialtext = 'Search Books'; $rollovertext = 'New and used student textbooks at cheap prices'; }
elseif($ext == "ca"){ $initialtext = 'Search Books'; $rollovertext = 'New and used student textbooks at cheap prices'; }
elseif($ext == "jp"){ $initialtext = '書さぐる'; $rollovertext = '安い教科書学生'; }
elseif($ext == "fr"){ $initialtext = 'Recherche Livres'; $rollovertext = 'Manuels bon marché pour des étudiants'; }
elseif($ext == "de"){ $initialtext = 'Suchbücher'; $rollovertext = 'Preiswerte Lehrbücher für Kursteilnehmer'; }
else { $initialtext = 'Error: Set Country'; $rollovertext = 'New and used student textbooks at cheap prices'; }

echo "<link media='screen' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='http://www.studentbooks.com/external/$color-style.css' />";

echo "<div id=\"search-books-form1\">
<form method='get' target='blank' action='http://www.studentbooks.com/$ext/search.php'>
<a title=\"$rollovertext\" href=\"http://www.studentbooks.com/$ext/index.php\" >
<img class=\"formimg\" src=\"http://www.studentbooks.com/external/images/student-textbooks-$color.gif\" border=\"0\" ></a>	  
<input class=\"keywords\" id=\"keywords\" name=\"search\" onFocus=\"this.style.background = '#EEEEEE'; if(this.value == this.defaultValue) this.value = ''\" onblur=\"this.style.background = '#CCCCCC'; if(this.value == '') this.value = this.defaultValue\" value=\"$initialtext\"  type=\"text\" >  
<input name='mode' value='Books' type='hidden' />
<input name='searchtype' value='Keywords' type='hidden' />
<input name='locale' value='$ext' type='hidden' />
<input name='language' value='en' type='hidden' />
<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"npage\" value=\"1\" />
<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"atag\" value=\"$exttag\" />
<input name=\"image\" type=\"image\" class=\"formimg\" src=\"http://www.studentbooks.com/external/images/$color-triangle.gif\" alt=\"Submit\" >
</form>
</div>";

// End of book search form code. Don't forget that you may or may not need to wrap this code in php brackets within your webpage

The HTML code

Just copy and paste the code in the box below inside one of your website pages. You can edit the color scheme and add your affiliate id within the html code below.

<link media='screen' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='http://www.studentbooks.com/external/green-style.css' />
<div id="search-books-form1">

<form method='get' target='blank' action='http://www.studentbooks.com/ca/search.php'>

<a title="Cheap Student Textbooks" href="http://www.studentbooks.com/ca/index.php" >

<img class="formimg" src="http://www.studentbooks.com/external/images/student-textbooks-green.gif" border="0" ></a>

<input class="keywords" id="keywords" name="search" onFocus="this.style.background = '#EEEEEE'; if(this.value == this.defaultValue) this.value = ''" onblur="this.style.background = '#CCCCCC'; if(this.value == '') this.value = this.defaultValue" value="Search Books"  type="text" >

<input name='locale' value='ca' type='hidden' />
<input name='language' value='en' type='hidden' />
<input type="hidden" name="npage" value="1" />

<input type="hidden" name="atag" value="" />

<input name="image" type="image" class="formimg" src="http://www.studentbooks.com/external/images/green-triangle.gif" alt="Submit" >

</form>
</div>

The iFrame code

Just copy and paste the code in the box below inside one of your website pages.
(In this code you cannot edit the colour scheme or add your affiliate id to earn commission. Please use either the PHP or the HTML code above if you want to make color changes or add your affiliate code)

Good luck and contact us if you need help or have any questions.