rispud
08-10-2003, 05:12 AM
Hello all,
I am not a programmer, although I can usually work out the bits that make scripts work, but there are so many options out there now I no longer know where to look for the best results.
I am building a site selling greeting cards to retail outlets, and there are often 2 varieties of the same card (different sizes) and at the moment about 50 different cards. Making about 100 options.
At the moment the buyer has to select the card they want, which takes them to a shopping cart, then they have to go back to the order form, select the next item and so on, back and forth. Then they have to put the number of items they require in the cart itself, before being taken to the processing section. Real long winded pain.
What I would like to do, is to give the customer the option of selecting the item they want, by putting the quantity required in a box next to the item. Select all their choices, and then submitting the form. I can do that OK.
Now where I come unstuck is how to add the different sizes of card together, which are different prices, and total them up. The form process will send an email to the site owner, and to them with the actual items they have ordered. Hopefully with the total sum of the order as well if this works properly.
Then I want to be able to link to a payment system with the total, so that they can pay.
Any ideas welcome, and do I look first in PHP, which seems to me to be more suited to this, or do I look under javascript?
Or has anyone got a script that will to the adding of items that can be modified?
All forms of help welcome. (pun)
:confused:
I am not a programmer, although I can usually work out the bits that make scripts work, but there are so many options out there now I no longer know where to look for the best results.
I am building a site selling greeting cards to retail outlets, and there are often 2 varieties of the same card (different sizes) and at the moment about 50 different cards. Making about 100 options.
At the moment the buyer has to select the card they want, which takes them to a shopping cart, then they have to go back to the order form, select the next item and so on, back and forth. Then they have to put the number of items they require in the cart itself, before being taken to the processing section. Real long winded pain.
What I would like to do, is to give the customer the option of selecting the item they want, by putting the quantity required in a box next to the item. Select all their choices, and then submitting the form. I can do that OK.
Now where I come unstuck is how to add the different sizes of card together, which are different prices, and total them up. The form process will send an email to the site owner, and to them with the actual items they have ordered. Hopefully with the total sum of the order as well if this works properly.
Then I want to be able to link to a payment system with the total, so that they can pay.
Any ideas welcome, and do I look first in PHP, which seems to me to be more suited to this, or do I look under javascript?
Or has anyone got a script that will to the adding of items that can be modified?
All forms of help welcome. (pun)
:confused: