demonhale — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:38:26 +0000

e.g by process of elimination... Make a page with all blue with small sizes, and so on... Let the selection be per page... eg. when a visitor selects blue on the first or color selection page it links to the (blue)size selection page, then when they select the size "small" it forwards you to the "blue and small sizes page"....

demonhale — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:31:52 +0000

Im sure It could be done with javascript... I can ponder about this when I need to use it for myself... I dont have the time right now; Anyways, since you have quite a few selections, maybe you could make it logical in sequence and make it page by page like chain forwarding until they get their desired outcome...

lanoak — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:14:11 +0000

it's going to be about 10 cars in total, with 4 different colours and 3 different sizes. That's going to be the only thing that people can select on (colour, size) and then it just returns the results the appropriate results, so sometimes there could be 4 cars returned, sometimes just 1.

CptAwesome — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:08:18 +0000

it sort of depends on how many cars and colours you have, and if those are the only concerns.

lanoak — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:05:37 +0000

so am I looking at a major piece of php code here or do you think it's the kind of thing I'll be able to pick up of some 'scripts' website?... I don't mind learning php but I need to get this done in the next few days !?!...

CptAwesome — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:59:51 +0000

the source as you can read it, yes. php (or in this site's case it appears to be ColdFusion) the server side code is not shown in the end result, because the purpose of it is to make readable HTML, Javascript or whatever else.

lanoak — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:53:53 +0000

I've found a page which does exactly what I'm after and looking at the source code it appears to use javascript for it (and a form). Would this be using php as well?

url is: http://www.beachcomberhottubs.com/app/public/index.cfm?public=perfecttub&perfecttub=tubselector

Thanks,

CptAwesome — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:47:41 +0000

It's a way to dynamically generate pages with backend coding. Think Javascript before the page loads. What you're looking for sounds like it needs php, but depending on the scope of a page you're looking into, you've got a lot to learn.

lanoak — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:43:04 +0000

I don't know anything about php (although I'm pretty sure my site does support it). Any chance of enlightenment?!?!

vibins — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:40:16 +0000

I dont know about javascript or DHTML but it can be done with php if you have access.