help

kevinritt

Hi,
I'm not sure if this is a php or javascript. But what i would like to do is something similar to this:
Customer goes to a page to select a choice http://www.namemaker.com/100woven.asp
Then the customer goes to another page to make anothwer choice http://www.namemaker.com/wovencolor.asp
Finally, the customer is sent to a third page to make a final selection
http://www.namemaker.com/wovenmotif.asp
After selections are complete the customer can see all the components ordered
http://www.namemaker.com/buywoven.asp
Basically the customer builds a label and can then see it. How do I do this-PHP or Javascript
Thanks for any help

gregmiller

The server side language used here is ASP.....you can very well do this stuff in PHP
And as for javascript.....it is a client side language.
So PHP's got to be your answer

tommynanda

JavaScript can do the work too, using cookies. But its more secure to use PHP. PHP should be installed on your web server for coding. U dont need to instal anything for JavaScript...

I would say PHP for sure, but JavaScript works when there is no Server Side Scripting Lang installed on your web server.

Good Luck
TommYNandA

kevinritt

Hi,
Thanks for your responses. I know it's ASP. What I would like to know is how to achieve this using PHP. Thanks.

rachel2004

What you're describing is similar to how shopping carts work. A user goes to page, selects items A, B, C, etc. These items get added to the cart. Visitor goes to another part of the site and possibly removes an item, but then adds items D and E.

It might be easier for you just to search some PHP script repositories and look at the source code for shopping carts in order to model your code.

If you want to do it yourself, you could do it as follows:

create an array.
register the array in a $_SESSION variable.
With each visit to a page in your site, check that the $_SESSION['array'] is set and maybe do a count of it if you want to display the number of items selected thus far.
As a visitor selects items, use PHP functions to append values to the array kept in the session variable.
When the visitor is done and wants to "check out" or display what he has selected thus far, you just use a foreach loop to echo out the values in the array.