Remote Catalog

[BestBuyDan]

Can anyone give me a hand here? I need to connect our site to a remote catalog. (A Frontpage temp site has the catalog connected in a frame. Eurocarpart

 

I need to somehow get this connection established in php (apparently without the use of frames). How can one accomplish this? I have tried an include (http://.....) and the first part of the menu came up; but when you click on the year or make you get a 404 error. I can't see how this is to work without the use of frames.

 

Any ideas?

 

BestBuyDan :(

[rcmdesign]

Are you going to want the customer to be able to add products from this remote catalog? Are you dealing exclusively with WorldPac because that site uses the WorldPac catalog database?? I am currently working with WorldPac and using their catalog, well in the process of setup and there's much more to it than just an include file...

[BestBuyDan]

Sounds like you are doing the exact same thing. Yes they will need to be able to to add Worldpac products to the osCommerce cart, then after payment confirmation, we send the order to Worldpac's fullfillment API via a VPN (which we are currently trying to find a host willing to set up).

 

Lot's of work.....hope it's worth it.

[rcmdesign]

Yes indeed it's a lot of work. I am currently hosting with www.inetter.net which allows VPN connections. WorldPac stated that purchasing a Cisco 3002 VPN Client hardware device is easiest for the VPN setup, and then you just mail that device to WorldPac and they program it, and then mail it off to your Hosting company. The only problem with WorldPac is that it uses a link to add products to the cart. And in OsCommerce you cannot add products from outside of the database of course. So what I did is create a custom page that WorldPac points to that takes all of the WorldPac variables from what the customer wants i.e. price, category, etc and then adds it to the oscommerce database. It was a lot of work to setup so I wouldn't necessarily want to give away the code. And I am not sure how "safe" it is, or how it will be in the future if you have thousands of visitors buying WorldPac stuff, since it does add a new product to the database when the user adds a WorldPac item to their cart. But the cool thing is I created a new category called WorldPac that is unviewable to the customers, but in the admin area I can see all of the products from WorldPac that people have added, then I can delete them to free space on the server after an order is completed and has been shipped....

[BestBuyDan]

Hmmm.....I think I might just take a look at a different cart. Or perhaps you could email me at: [email protected] and we could discuss your code.

 

Thanks