I am a MySQL/PHP coder. A client recently asked me for a quote to set up a CJ site. She sent me a PDF with field names and data transfer info. I've seen some posts on the forum that mention web services and real time feeds. I can't find any documentation on such services. Can anyone tell me where to find some -- if it exists? Basically, I want to know the bulk of my options. The pdf makes it look like I choose a data transfer type and schedule; and then just develop something for the client to either pull the data from the files on demand with or put it into a database on our end and go from there. Any thoughts/info would be appreciated. Thanks!
that's basically correct. You select available merchant feeds, select what format (xml, csv, etc) and they will either be FTP'd to your server or will be available on their server on a weekly basis. You will get a notification email when the feed is read, and it will be in zip format (tar.gz which I think is configurable). You'll then need to write a PHP script that will take that feed and suck it into a local database, etc. Hope this helps. hanji