Good Morning and Happy Friday!
A client wants his site to link to another site for the purpose of searching that site's database. What's the best way to do this using PHP and/or Joomla?
Thanks!
A:
Does that site have the values you are interested in show up on their front-end, because then all you would need to do is write a site-scraper using PHP (optionally using cURL). You'd programmatically go to their site, perform search functions, and return what you get.
AlbertoPL
2009-07-17 18:50:08
Unfortunately, I would need to pass in user search criteria.
SidC
2009-07-17 19:49:07
That's fine, you can do that with PHP.
AlbertoPL
2009-07-17 19:52:58
A:
Since you're already comfortable with Joomla you could just make a 'wrapper' page and show the other site inside the iframe that the wrapper gives you. A tiny bit crude but very quick and easy to do.
Joomla will make a wrapper page for you with no programming through your menu interface in the admin.
Travis
2009-07-17 18:51:31