使表单结果显示在同一页面上，其中数据来自另一个站点

Question

Ok, I have a unique issue. I have a real estate wordpress website that uses IDX (Internet Data Exchange) data to show MLS (Multiple Listing Service) listings. So all the IDX data is stored through my IDX provider's site. Currently, when a user submits a form, it goes to a results page that is hosted through my idx provider (example: http://www.mysite.idxco.com/idx/my.account#/results.php? ). What I am trying to do is create a form which would render the results on the same page....how would I do that? If I am not being clear enough please let me know.

Answer 1

If I understand what you mean, you have different options, you can

1) POST via ajax, and have your hosted page send back html in response that you can show in the same page in a div. Its very easy to do with jquery. It might be easier to integrate in a wordpress page, but you need to be able to modify your hosted page.

2) you can post to a page on your server (not on the idx provider's), then use curl to send the data you received from your form as a post to the idx provider page, grab the returned html, parse it, get the results, reload the page with your own form along with the results you got from curl.

You might need to check with your idx provider if it is ok that you 'scrape' the data.

(Of course if you had a api access which is very likely with idx you can just send a api request, which would be much more efficient )