Tarzan 1.0 RC2 Now Available!

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by Ryan Parman • January 26, 2005 • Code, Projects, Technology • 2 comments

Tarzan 1.0 RC2 is now available for download. There are several new things in this version, including: Full support for all of Amazon’s locales (US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, and Japan), improved error handling, redesigned Tarzan info page, and a new demo page which combines the old sample.php and breakdown.php pages.

All you UK’ers should now be set to go! I’ll be converting my wishlist over the next few days in an effort to flush out any remaining bugs before I declare this a 1.0 final.

Have at it!

Ryan Parman is an entrepreneur, open source evangelist and passionate usability advocate currently living in Seattle. He is the founder and visionary behind SimplePie and CloudFusion, co-founder of WarpShare, member of the RSS Advisory Board, and creator of the AWS SDK for PHP. Ryan's aptly-named blog, Flailing Wildly, is where he writes about ideas longer than 140 characters.

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Discussion

Andrew

January 26, 2005

I think you have a bug Ryan…
Unless you mean to output all the $rpc array info at the bottom of the sample page?

Pretty damn cool, btw

Ryan Parman

January 26, 2005

That’s entirely intentional. It allows people who want to build Tarzan extensions to figure out how to access the data they’re looking for.

And thanks, BTW. I’ve seen a couple of other software solutions that are similar:

http://www.scriptrocket.com/piranha.php – $39.99+Tax/VAT: Tarzan does nearly everything it does, except allow searching of Amazon… which will change in RC3.

http://www.c3scripts.com/amazon/features.html – $99.99: Tarzan does nearly everything that this script does as well. Again, Tarzan does not YET support searching Amazon, but will soon. All of the other features deal with pre-designed templates and such, which I have no intention of adding. But again, you don’t have to be the head cashier at the Walmart to figure out the bare basics of calling a PHP function.

Neither script currently has full international support for all of Amazon’s locales. Both focus exclusively on either USA-only or USA/UK. And neither of them have a way to build extensions, and Tarzan does. Best of all? Tarzan is not only free, but completely open-source.

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