Lots of forms on one page

dunni

I'm writing a PHP shopping cart. I have a number of items (sometimes as much as about 200) on a page and I want each item to have an "add to cart" button (or link or whatever). The user should also be able to specify a quantity before pressing the "add to cart" button, and sometimes other options too.

To me it seems that I want each item to have it's own form with a text box for quantity and the "add to cart" button being the submit button. What I want to know is if it's OK to have hundreds of forms on one page, or will that cause problems (e.g. slow it down)?

If it's not OK, can you suggest a better way to do this?

richie

A typical page should be around 80 - 100K in size.

You can have as many submit buttons as you need to on a page, and the form would still work correctly.

I'm sure you can come up with a better way than to dump hundreds of items on a page.

dunni

Thanks for the reply.

I do want hundreds of items on a page though. It's only a couple of pages that have that many though, and they are laid out nicely, not just dumped. It's currently a php generated price list and I just want to add "add to cart" buttons to it. My biggest page currently is only about 50K.

I've had a think about it though, and I'm now just going to make it a simple link (no forms). The quantity will be changed on the shopping cart, and if there are other options they will be given on a seperate page after "add to cart" is clicked. That way it avoids a silly number of forms and keeps the price list neat.

Thanks again though.