Hey,

I've been searching my *** off to try and find a script for what I need and I'm having no luck. So here's what I need it to do, if anyone knows of anything to help me that would be great.

I own a screen printing company and have a price list made up, the problem is it's huge. I don't want to scare customers away with a massive table of numbers. My goal is to have a form with simple drop down menus so the user can select the details of their order and on submitting the form they will be given the price. I have no problem with making a form etc. I just don't have ANY php knowledge. I figure php is the way to go with what I want, I could be wrong.

To be more specific, I don't want the form to add anything. So here's a better example to show you:

I need the following info for a price...
1. Shirt color
2. # of print colors
3. Print on front, back, or both
4. QTY. of shirts

So when the user selects their answers, each answer will be given a value so that when the form sees that the user selected: black, 2, front, 100 it knows to show them $7.66 each.

So hopefully I've explained this well enough....heh.
Thank you so much for any help I get.

Ryan Monk

Ryan I doubt you'll find a script that does exactly what you want. It's too specific to your needs for anyone to have coded it exactly.

However it's not something hard to do. Your best bet, is hiring someone to code it for you. You're probably talking a couple hundred at most if I'm understanding right. Though, you can most likely find someone to do this for a lot less.

Does the information about pricing come from a database or will that just be coded directly into the form?

Now having said all that you can probably find several scripts on dynamic forms. They won't be exactly what you want, but they might be enough to help you understand the php you need.

Here's a list of php form processing scripts at HotScripts and here's a similar list of form processing scripts from The PHP Resource index.

I've used scripts from both sites as starting points in the past. You'll find a mix of free and paid scripts on both sites and some will be much closer to a final product than others.

If you search enough through both you may find something very close to what you need. Hope one or the other helps.

I understand it's a bit too specific, but as you suggested I was trying to find something similar that could be modified. There wouldn't be a database I don't think, I'm not skilled in PHP at all so I don't know. To my understanding the data could just be within the form. Each selection the user makes has a value attached to it. Then the script knows that when a certain combo of values are selected, it needs to present the right answer.

So the script just has to know A, B, C, D = $7.99 or A, A, B, C = $9.99
Almost like a combination.

I checked out those sites but all I could find were form mail scripts. Which is all I can find on google too. I suppose I'll keep searching, because there's no way I'll pay 100's for some text, unless someone is interested in doing it for less.

Thanks for your help,

Ryan

You can definitely have all the information for this inside the form itself. The question about the database was part curiosity and part that a database might mean someone would charge a little more for the programming.

The form you describe isn't difficult. How much it will cost will depend on someone's experience, but I'd bet you can get find someone to do this for under $100.

You might want to post a thread on the freelance programming jobs wanted forum here. I would think one of WT's members would program the form for you, but I wouldn't jump on the first person who says they can do it.

Sorry the scripts didn't pan out. Try searching for 'dynamic forms with php' or something similar.

Another thought is to code up the form as best you can and then hire someone to add in the php to the form. I'm not sure how much money that would save you, but it might save some.

So you don't need this emailed to you or anything?

You basically just want an online estimator?

How many shirt colors do you have?
How many print colors are possible 1-X? x=

Colby's comment made me take a look at your initial question again. Will the price from this form get submitted to a shopping cart?

I've been assuming you would want to use php because you would later use this value as the actual price, but if this form is just meant as an estimate then you could just as easily code this in JavaScript.

The reason for php would be so no one could change the price if this was an actual order form, but if it's just an informational sort of thing then it might be easier to use JavaScript.

I've been assuming you would want to use php because you would later use this value as the actual price, but if this form is just meant as an estimate then you could just as easily code this in JavaScript.

There are several ways it could be done and none of them are expensive.