Making a PDF usable as a Ordering tool

I have an excessively large catalog that is both printed, and cut into sections for posting on our website.
Each section is accessable through various links on our website, depending on what your looking for. We have a shopping cart on our website, but it is rudimentary at best and you have to fill in the part numbers and other important information yourself. It is at current, not tied to the pdf's that are created.
We would like to streamline this and use the pdf we currently create as an online catalog with the ability to order from.
Say someone is looking for a certain cutting unit... (in the golf course maintenance business). This individual can go to the link to the section that is pertinent to their needs. Find the cutting unit, then click on the part number, price, or a button out to the side to add to cart. Then be able to go to a DIFFERENT section of the book for something else, add something from that section to the cart that was created from the first selection of the cutting unit.
This sounds like something that is completely plausable to me, but I have not one clue how to impliment this with the use of the PDF's we are creating.
Can someone help me and point me in the right direction of the information i'm needing to complete this task? Or is this even possible?
Thank you to all in advance.
Dkennedy

I have found how to make links in InDesign clickable in the PDF, which I can use for the button to add things to a cart.
Thank you all for your help.
But I have one question that the answer seems a bit further in the programming end then I am aware of. At least I think it is. Someone please clear it up if it's possible.
Question:
Can I submit information WITH the mouse click. Like say, I click on the part number for a mower. The number is R32456. (example)
Is it possible when I click on that part number, that the number automatically fills in on the shopping cart so server side it can be used to que up the price and description? My IT person says he can get it to do that on his end, I just need it to send the number from my end! Is there anyhelp in this? (yes this is from the PDF).

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