If you're lucky, some vendors set up cgi interfaces so that anyone can
bounce a query off it and give you the results for whatever it is you are
looking for. In my case, a friend wanted to sell baseball cards online and
one of the big card sites (Topps or whatever) had some kind of cgi interface
so you could send it various info (year, player, etc) and it would send you
back a price.
If you're going to do it this way then just create a form to send the
parameters to the cgi interface <form method=POST
action="http://www.topps.com/ecommerce.cfm"> although it would probably be
better to use <CFHTTP> and <CFHTTPPARAM>.
----- Original Message -----
From: Joel Firestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: cf-talk
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 7:02 AM
Subject: Comparison sites in CF
> Everyone:
>
> Looking for a little insight. I'm interested in setting up a comparison
> feature
> for my web site. I've seen several sites that do it (books, computers,
> software,
> etc.) and I'm wondering:
>
> Do they get a current db from all of the vendors to compare with? Or do
they
> write their own components to go out and get the prices "on-the-fly"? What
> would the best scenario? I figured the first would be alot faster, but the
> second
> would be alot more current.
>
> Any input would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
> ===================
> Joel Firestone - Developer
> Delmarva Online
> http://www.dmv.com/
>
>
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