API? Displaying a zen cart product listing in another php app

Hi there!

I'm building a site that has a zen cart installation at a subdomain, but the main domain will be some other app -- possible Drupal, possibly a PHP framework.

I would like the site at the main domain to show product listings from the zen cart installation -- featured products, new products, current specials, stuff like that. My first inclination was to just cobble something together -- connect to the database, and create an array from the featured, products, etc tables.

But then I thought "hell there's an API -- maybe there's a better way?" For example, maybe there's an API call that gets a product listing that is aware of inventory, aware of a site being down for maintenance, etc.

Any advice (general or specific) that you can provide would be greatly appreciated!

All the best!
Dave

hello,
Can you use the rss feeder and display to your main domain as this would update itself i would think

Ha! That's too funny. Didn't even occur to me to look for an rss feed. Some web developer I am :)

Thanks so much Rich -- you just saved me countless hours of php screwing around.