How do I display dynamic info on another webpage?

ExtremeGuy

I am trying to create a calendar program that I can display on another website. In other words, my calendar dates are going to reside in a MySQL database and be part of one website (lets call it website_1.com) and I want to display a dynamic calendar on another website (we'll call this one display_it.com) by adding a line or two of code, like ad companies do. How is this done?

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

bubblenut

Well, there are a number of different ways you could achieve it. You could put it in an i-frame; you could open the calender within php and skim the contents; or you could even set up a soap server on the machine with the MySQL database and then a client on the other and use SOAP to get the info.

I'd probably do it such that I have a page on the machine with the MySQL database which when called builds and outputs an xml file. The page on the other machine can then call this page, get the xml content and handle it any way it wants to. This method allows more control at the final end but without going OTT (doing it with SOAP would be a little silly really :p).

HTH
Bubble

ShawnK

OR why don't you just copy the php files onto the other site, and connect to the SQL server that the first site is using.

It would keep both sync'd, but if you wanna update code then you'd have to replace it in both sites.

ExtremeGuy

Originally posted by ShawnK
OR why don't you just copy the php files onto the other site, and connect to the SQL server that the first site is using.

It would keep both sync'd, but if you wanna update code then you'd have to replace it in both sites.

This wouldn't work since I want to create a small app for others to put on their websites. Ideally, I want a user to put one or two lines of code on their site which will pull info from my site based off of their ID and display information specific to them, specifically a calendar.

bubblenut

I would guess an iframe with an identification variable in the url would be the best bet then.