Minimizing portlets programmatically

We have version 5 of the portal and we won't be upgrading to G6 until later this year so we can't yet make use of the CSS methods to hide a portlet, so we are looking at other methods to best hide a portlet when back end data is in particular states.
Is it possible to programmatically minimize a portlet from a remote web service?
We want to default a portlet to be minimized when back end data is in a particular state (e.g. there are no items remaining for you to purchase).
Daryl

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