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Hey all,

I've been doing web-based design for about 3 years, my expertise extends only so far though... (I'm self taught) I've been asked to undertake a job whereby 1,000 odd items will be sold online.

It will NOT involve secured servers / credit card / paypal payment methods. The owner simply wants a form based shop where items can be addded to a shopping cart and then a form dispatched to him.

I've built forms before (and have them intergrated into some of my sites) But in this case, I'll need to build a site where you can browse through categories and then 'checkout' > fill in final details > submit form...

Is there much involved beyond basic form knowledge? I use Dreamweaver to produce my forms...

Thanks in advance...

[wildboy211]

Sounds like you need server-side scripting, ASP and PHP work fine with forms and with what your trying to do...

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Originally Posted by wildboy211

Sounds like you need server-side scripting, ASP and PHP work fine with forms and with what your trying to do...

It won't require a secure server... it's essentially a glorified form where a shopping order is emailed to my client.

I just wanted to know if there's much involved on my side.

[wildboy211]

yes like i said youll need server-side scripting - which isnt a secure server, its just another way of programming...youll still use HTML (or Dreamweaver) to make the forms, but in order to take the information in the form and process it (in your case email) you have to use a server-side script (ASP or PSP)...

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Originally Posted by wildboy211

yes like i said youll need server-side scripting - which isnt a secure server, its just another way of programming...youll still use HTML (or Dreamweaver) to make the forms, but in order to take the information in the form and process it (in your case email) you have to use a server-side script (ASP or PSP)...

Apologies - I misunderstood...

It's just new terrain to me. Can you elaborate please re: the scripting on server - ie is it the responsibility of my webhost or mine to write these scripts?

[JRWalker]

it is your responsibility to write the script, I would recommend PHP. If you want something slick check out http://dhtmlgoodies.com/scripts/fly-...to-basket.html.