Simple scripts help

mowhouston

I learned a bit of PHP through online sources awhile back but I cant seem to get myself to learn what I need to do for the following. So I'd like to ask for some help with it.

First of all, I run a lawn maintenance business, just to give you a little background on what this is for.

I need a service area script for my page so that potential customers can enter their zip code to see if we even service their area. This will consist of about 25 zip codes. I figured I could do some sort of if...else script to where if we do serve the zip code, it progresses them on to the estimate request (described below) if not, it will simply echo that we do not service the area.
The estimate request would be a bit more complicated and would consist of a form with a few fields, whose variables would give the potential customer a price right from the website.

I would need the form to calculate a base price, based on three choices of lot sizes. The original base price may be affected by service frequency. This second price, MAY be affected by whether or not their grass is overgrown.

Example:

Lot size: 0-8000 square feet = $25.00
Frequency: Bi-weekly = +$7.00
Overgrown: Yes = +$20.00
Estimate Total = $52.00

I hope that helps everything make some sense.

Is there anyone that could give me some help with this? Thanks.

Ryan

bretticus

Sure, hire a freelancer: http://www.php-freelancers.com/

Or, if you can do this on your own, what have you got so far?

mowhouston

I tried to hire a freelancer on getafreelancer.com but he hasnt followed through and I'd like to get this done pretty soon. I know it isnt a big project.

At this point, I dont have anything as far as scripts go. I've been looking at PHP tutorial pages for about 3 or 4 hours in between work that I have to do already. I was hoping someone could let me know what I would need to do, or point me in the right direction to a tutorial that would help me figure this out.

mowhouston

Okay. I've got this so far. I can enter ONE zip code and make it work. But I need to enter multiple zip codes where "77550" is. How do I do that? Here is the code I've got so far.

<html><body>
<?php
$zip = $_POST['zip'];

if ( $zip == "77550" ) {
	echo "We service your area";
} else {
	echo "Sorry, we do not service your area";
}

?>
</body></html>

bretticus

Good start,

keep in mind there is an elseif statement as well. However, since you are either accepting a zip code or not, why not just make an array of zip codes you accept.

<?php
$zipcodes = array(
	"77550",
	"77551",
	"77552",
	"77553",
	"77554",
	"77555",
	"77556",
	"77557"	
); // add your zips accordingly
$zip = trim($_POST['zip']);
if ( in_array($zip, $zips) ) {
       echo "We service your area";
} else {
       echo "Sorry, we do not service your area";
}
?>

Also, you might want to make sure that a dash or space doesn't create a false negative by filtering the $zip variable a bit.

<?php
//get rid of dashes and spaces (numbers only)
$zip = preg_replace("/[^0-9]/", "", $_POST['zip']);
//get just the first 5 numbers
$zip = substr($zip,0,5);
?>

Good luck!