Not sure if this is simple or not..but here agos..
I have a system that displays our in house inventory of product on our site. I am being asked to merge our product inventory with a 3rd parties inventory for both to be displayed on our site with ours being displayed first and then the 3rd parties next on the same page.
Where the catch comes into play is the 3rd party vendor will not allow any form of access for searching their database unless it is through their search interface. So in essence...they want us to place a search field for their product on our website which would redirect the user to their site for their inventory to be viewed. This defeats the goal of being able to display our inventory first, then thiers seconds. Plus im not interested in confusing visitors by having search number 1 and 2 for product.
I can throw their system a variable through the URL and receive the results I want. How, if at all, would it be possible for me to have a user enter their search data, throw that info to my database, then throw it via URL to the 3rd parties system for their results, and merge the two different pages together on a single page?
I know this can be accomplished with frames..but was looking a solution to make it seem as its all on a single page without frames.
THANX!
