A listener page would imply that they will be sending you all the information in bulk at a non-determined time, if that is the case them yes that would work. However if this needs to happen in real time when someone is placing an order then you would need to be calling a web service of some kind to get the info to display to the customer while they are using your site. You need to speak with the 3rd party to find out what they provide by way of an API.
Russ -----Original Message----- From: Che Vilnonis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 08 December 2010 18:28 To: cf-talk Subject: RE: CF and a Remote PHP Site... Thanks Russ. Let me explain further. The third party PHP site would mimic the entire line of products that the picture framing company sells. (IDs and SKUs would be the same.) I would then pass a "Frame ID" to the third party PHP site. Over a period of time, the customer would build his/her frame. Once he/she hits "add to cart", the third party PHP site would pass back several variables such as the selected frame width, frame height, mat width, mat height, second mat width and height, mat style, mat cut, plexiglass width and height, foam core width and height, etc. Basically, I would need to get back 15-20 variables of data to create one custom picture frame. Does that make more sense? Would a simple CF "listener" page work where all the data is passed back in the query string and then parsed? Would that be the best way to do this? Thanks, Che -----Original Message----- From: Russ Michaels [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:13 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: CF and a Remote PHP Site... >From what you have said this sounds really simple to achieve. You presumably have pictures of the frames. User chooses the frame. User uploads their photo Resize the photo to fit in the frame, and overlay it on top of the frame image using a div and position it. Russ -----Original Message----- From: Che Vilnonis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 08 December 2010 17:19 To: cf-talk Subject: CF and a Remote PHP Site... We have a client that sells custom built picture frames on an older CF app. His competition uses software that allows customers to upload photos and to "visually" see the picture frames they are building. He wants to add this functionality to his web site. I was put in touch with a company that sells this type of software. It is written in PHP. The PHP developer thought we'd be able to "pass data" from my site to his. Once the "visualized" frame was built, he'd "pass data" back to me and I would add the custom built frame to the shopping cart. Sending data to the remote site (via XML and CFHTTP) is not an issue. I'm looking for a solution on how to best "receive" the data. Keep in mind, the CF site runs on a CFMX 6 shared server that uses client variables for storage. I realize this is not the best way to do things and there would be pitfalls with session timeouts, etc. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Che ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339920 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
