orty
Golden Member
I know there are PHP classes that can do this (Snoopy, for example), but is there other ways to do this?
Basically, what I'm trying to pull off is thus: I'm working on a site for a property management company. Their online reservation system is absolutely useless as a search tool, is ASP based, and can't be customized per the agreement with the company (working on changing that). So I plan on building a front-end search tools using www.interactivetools.com/products/realtymanager and then throw a "book now" button on each home listing, linking to that property's booking page on the online reservation server that's here in our office. I'd like to include that page in an already laid out page (that resides on our web server) doing something similar to a server-side include. The reason I'm just not running the site entirely on our local server is that while it's fast, the connection it has to the internet isn't all that quick or reliable. I'd like to keep traffic to it to a minimum, and host the bulk of the load with an external web host.
Basically, I'm just looking for a way to do a server-side include...but on a cross-site basis (and don't say use IFRAMES).
We have Perl and PHP at our disposal on the Web server at our Web host. The Webfetch perl library probably won't work, as they will be dynamic pages that I'll be linking to (but I don't know much about it). A former co-worker of mine created the snoopy PHP class (http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/) that is supposed to do this, but I don't know if I'll be able to get it to work, as the Web site's on a virtual server account (I haven't looked at the code, nor do I have much experience with PHP classes).
Any body have any ideas? I know Miva had ways to do this fairly easily....but <shrug>.
Ideas?
Basically, what I'm trying to pull off is thus: I'm working on a site for a property management company. Their online reservation system is absolutely useless as a search tool, is ASP based, and can't be customized per the agreement with the company (working on changing that). So I plan on building a front-end search tools using www.interactivetools.com/products/realtymanager and then throw a "book now" button on each home listing, linking to that property's booking page on the online reservation server that's here in our office. I'd like to include that page in an already laid out page (that resides on our web server) doing something similar to a server-side include. The reason I'm just not running the site entirely on our local server is that while it's fast, the connection it has to the internet isn't all that quick or reliable. I'd like to keep traffic to it to a minimum, and host the bulk of the load with an external web host.
Basically, I'm just looking for a way to do a server-side include...but on a cross-site basis (and don't say use IFRAMES).
We have Perl and PHP at our disposal on the Web server at our Web host. The Webfetch perl library probably won't work, as they will be dynamic pages that I'll be linking to (but I don't know much about it). A former co-worker of mine created the snoopy PHP class (http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/) that is supposed to do this, but I don't know if I'll be able to get it to work, as the Web site's on a virtual server account (I haven't looked at the code, nor do I have much experience with PHP classes).
Any body have any ideas? I know Miva had ways to do this fairly easily....but <shrug>.
Ideas?
