Thanks Dominic. Yeah, that helps. I think the hardest part might be the session mgmt. with the client vars that the legacy CF app uses.
-----Original Message----- From: Dominic Watson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 3:18 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: CF and a Remote PHP Site... So it sounds like the data will need to be processed in the same request as the user visiting some page on your site (so that you can associate the data with the client in session / client scope). Something that occurs to me off the top of my head: * User finishes with 3rd party site and ready to return to you with the details... * 3rd party sends the user to your page, providing some token with which to fetch the data, e.g. locate to: yoursite.com/some.cfm?thirdPartyToken=3535A6F4587395EB5B * the cfm page that the user lands on makes a request to 3rd party, supplying the token, 3rd party responds with all the relevant data that can then be stored in the client/session scope as you are still within the clients visit request Alternatively, the url to which the 3rd party redirects your user could have all the neccessary data, e.g. locate to: yoursite.com/some.cfm?width=487height=48&picture=9734857 etc. HTH Dominic On 8 December 2010 18:27, Che Vilnonis <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:339923 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
