Widget Development Time

[idiotekniQues]

check out this blue box on this website with dates and locations:

http://www.digitaldaysphoto.com/

currently it is just plain html and when a date or city changes, our designer just manually updates it.

another website wants to place this calendar on their website, but they dont want to have to update it manually, so they want a widget that will update itself.

something that everytime someone visits their page, it would know to look to our website for the most up to date cities and dates and display them to their visitor.


so how long would it take for a reasonable web developer to code something like this?

 

[troytime]

even with it being manually updated on YOUR site, making a little js widget that pulls YOUR data shouldn't really take more than 2 hours.

 

[idiotekniQues]

Originally posted by: troytime
even with it being manually updated on YOUR site, making a little js widget that pulls YOUR data shouldn't really take more than 2 hours.

thanks.

anyone else have an assessment?

 

[Ken g6]

The problem with Javascript, IMHO, is that it can't pull data from someone else's website. (Supposedly it's done for security reasons.) If their website is not in the same domain, they'll need something on the server side, like PHP or ASP.

That said, I agree with troytime's time assessment: pulling the <li>s from <div id="events"> is not hard.

 

[troytime]

Originally posted by: Ken g6
The problem with Javascript, IMHO, is that it can't pull data from someone else's website. (Supposedly it's done for security reasons.) If their website is not in the same domain, they'll need something on the server side, like PHP or ASP.

That said, I agree with troytime's time assessment: pulling the <li>s from <div id="events"> is not hard.

you keep the javascript on the source domain and call the js from domains with the widget.