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I’ve already decided to buy at least three licences, but I’d like to find out (for a potential fourth), is it possible to do this:

I need to set up a shop for a client and she also wants a dynamic box in the sidebar where she can put whatever she wants - news, links, pictures… most shopping cart systems don’t seem to support an open element like this, so I was wondering, is it possible to install EE in the same place with for example Avactis, then use EE tags to put this dynamic content box into the shop layout? I wouldn’t need to integrate them any further than that, just enough to get the client able to put her own information in the sidebar of the shop front. I tried Magento that has the added capability of CMS static blocks, but skinning it was such a nightmare, I really can’t start learning that from scratch right now.

I understand this is probably a stupid question, but I’m very pressed for time and I’d like to get something up and running asap, hence the idea of inserting EE tags into another system…

Thanks in advance!

spaceboy, I use an iframe for content that comes from an EE system on several other sites.

That’s one way of grabbing the information.

But you don’t use EE tags, you just display a template that has tags in it.

So the answer is —it depends. 😊

But you don’t use EE tags, you just display a template that has tags in it.

I’m confused, what does this mean?

I’m having a slow day, sorry…  :red:

Let’s say you want to display a quote of the week.

You’d create an iframe with this code.

<iframe src="http://www.liveinlaurel.com/index.php/share/index/" />

This code gives you a quote of the week that is hosted on my client’s site.

The code to display this is inside of the template called share/index. It uses EE code to get the information. Your site that calls the iframe can’t use any EE code, because it isn’t an EE site.

Does that help now?

Ah, gotcha now! Thank you! 😊

EEWiki:// HowTo Use an IFrame to Display Content

Freshly written wiki entry. 😊