I am considering developing a module however, I wanted to discuss it first, get some ideas, recommendations and understand if there is anything that sort of does what I am looking to do...
Firstly, I have a number of websites which all sell similar products. What I want to avoid is having to recreate the same product list in every website. The product list is about 15 - 20 items but the description, options and inclusions is quite extensive...
At the moment, I have replicated the same stuff over the websites but everytime a product changes, I need to modify it over the multiple websites... Painful!
What I want to do is as follows:
- use a module similar to the Gocart module
- create an xml feed of the Gocart products
- create some type of module to read and interpret xml
- display unique formatting over the top of the data
Therefore, I maintain one single database of products and then each individual site, reads, formats and displays the data however it chooses.
Any advice, guidance, recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
If it wasn't for the links I would say use a hidden page and then the aggregator module to "scim" the products from that page. But that leaves the original links intact.
cheers
Klaus