Hi guys/gals,
I wanted to give others the opportunity to show off their drupal coding skills. I am in contact with one drupal developer but he may not be able to take the job. I anticipate this project to be done completely by the end of the month.
First, this drupal site will not sell anything but will have products on it...
I have a site using an xml api that provides categories, products, product reviews, store reviews, consumer reviews and product specs. I want to get this xml api to work in drupal. The basic idea is to call a HTTP GET request and turn that xml into pages and use certain parts of the xml to build terms. A additional part to the equation is to have certain data from queries to be stored into the database. It is important to have the xml data connected with other terms. For example, if there is a product that is linked to terms like, digital camera, canon, 8 megapixels, then if someone was to click on one of those tags, it would bring them to a new page will all related content to the term. So, if canon is clicked, then all products, news, articles linked to canon will be displayed.
Some other features I would like to see on this drupal site are ratings (for news/articles) and an option to give a review on product pages.
I have been given a quote by one programmer that the time needed would be 40 hours - just for the xml api part. I have a complete whitepaper on the entire xml api. I am pretty familiar with the api so most questions could be answered. I have a majority of the code written to generate the xml queries and to parse the xml. I think the majority of the work is to build a module and maybe a few other files to 'hook' into drupal. It seems the amazontools is very similar to what I am looking for, but for a different xml api.