grabbing data from osC pages and posting on HTML page

[gheffron]

I want to try to include some data from my osCmax catalog on the home page of my site. Specifically, I'm hoping to list the newest Articles from my store on my home page. I tried to discern where the data was coming from (which php file within my catalog), but couldn't get it to include properly. Can anyone shed light on the theory behind such a "data grab?"

Note: though I'm a newbie to dynamic pages/PHP, I was recently able to include a php file in the midst of a normal HTML page (using a <script> tag with an "src" set to the php page I wanted to include) in order to display a rotating ad. It worked like a charm, so I'm hoping there's some way to do the same with a php page from osCmax.

Best,
G Heffron

[jpf]

The easiest is to hard code links in your main/other websites

To all articles:

www.yoursite.com/catalog/articles.php

To only new articles:

www.yoursite.com/catalog/articles_new.php

These would not be Auto updating.....
To specific topics (change the tPath number to the one you need):

www.yoursite.com/catalog/articles.php?tPath=1

To specific article (change the articles_id number to the one you need):

www.yoursite.com/catalog/article_info.php?articles_id=1

To make a dynamic showing of say - all the current titles of articles would take a bit of PHP programing. Not imposable - but would take a bit of time.

Good Luck!

[gheffron]

Yes, I'm definitely hoping to include a dynamic list of, say, the three most recent posts. Hard coding would be fine, but would require maintainance that the client's can't afford.

Is there any "easy" way to pull in the data dynamically using PHP?

If not, no sweat. Just thought I'd check.