Pulling one web site into another

[icky_thump]

Hi all,

 

We are a wholesaler and have built an online catalog site (just a catalog, not ecommerce) of our products (using a RocketTheme Joomla template). Some of our smaller customers would like to be able to do a live feed of our catalog right into their existing site.

 

I know one method is for our customers to use an iframe to accomplish this. That's kind of old school though and has some limitations, but it works for now. I'd like to find a better method. Thoughts?

 

SSI Includes only work on the same server.

PHP Includes don't seem to be doing the trick for me, but I'm totally new to them and could be missing it entirely.

RSS Feeds seem to be only for individual content on sites, not the site in it's entirety.

 

Stumped!

Thanks for your input!

[falkencreative]

PHP includes are probably not going to work -- most hosts don't allow PHP includes to pull from external domains.

 

You might look at jquery's load() function, though I'm not sure how performance would be affected if you are pulling in a majority of the page content through javascript. http://api.jquery.com/load/

[is_numeric]

The best way would be to develop a Web Service which you would send the content of the catalogue back as XML. This would allow the developer at the other end to theme and style the content accordingly and provide more flexibility.