Bit of Coding Help?

faile486

I hope this is in the right place...

Here's what I'm trying to do:

I need an application that can display a number of forms based on user input. For example, lets say the user has three cars - they would select three from a drop down menu. Then three forms would appear that would allow them to enter the make, model, and year of their cars. After they entered that information, they would go to the next form page, which would allow them to enter who drives which car.

First Form Page:
How many cars do you own <drop down box>

Second form page
Car 1
Make <drop down box>
Model <drop down box>
Year <drop down box>

Car 2
Make <drop down box>
Model <drop down box>
Year <drop down box>

Car 3
Make <drop down box>
Model <drop down box>
Year <drop down box>

Page 3:
Car 1
Driver <drop down box>

Car 2
Driver <drop down box>

Car 3
Driver <drop down box>

I'm not quite sure how to accomplish this...if anyone has any ideas, please let me know. I've got a decent amount of code already if anyone would like to see that.

Thanks!

seisei

i think what you need for this is a client side based which is javascript. but im not sure though.

Pikachu2000

How about entering the info for one car, and present the user with buttons for either "Done" or "Enter Another Vehicle", and just continue that sequence until they hit the "Done" button?

illzz

I think OP wants 3 different pages, in which case JS isn't needed to display the different number of car selections. It can be done using FORMs to transfer information from page to page. Then running a loop in PHP based on the values passed through the FORM.

If you wanted to dynamically populate the entries in the select boxes, then JS/AJAX would be the way to go.

If OP wants this all in one page, then like seisei said, you will want to use JS for that.

faile486

I think the Pikachu's answer would be easiest to implement...I don't remember much javascript and I don't know any Ajax o.O Not even sure what it is, honestly. 'Next until done' might make the pages a little bit more difficult to read, but I'm the only one reading it, so it shouldn't matter ^.

Thanks for the replies!

illzz

In my first suggestion the only JS you would need is to help filter (at run-time) possible Models from the chosen Make. Other than that it would be all server side (PHP)

Here is a tutorial on Chained Select Boxes that has helped me out a lot.