Like a Shopping Cart but -NOT- a Shopping Cart

[Nenadmail]

Have you ever seen [url]www.apple.com/store?[/url]
And if you noticed when you choose G5 for example... you select the kind of
MAC and then you can customize it, add memory, another hard drive, bigger
monitor... etc.

Well, each time you select from the menu to customize the computer, the price
updates.

I am making a similar thing. BUT ITS NOT A SHOPPING CART!!!.. I want the
visitors to be able to make their own custom package of "wedding
videography"... the advantage? They see in real time, how much it will cost
them. Then when they're ready, they send it as a "Request for Services" to the
videographers.

The vidographers in turn, get an email and see a request, and can contact
their potential client and discuss what they've chosen.

That's the idea. Now in that process, I know everything except the part that
UPDATES THE PRICE in real time, as if it was a cart.

How do I do that?

[Nenadmail]

Have you ever seen [url]www.apple.com/store?[/url]
And if you noticed when you choose G5 for example... you select the kind of
MAC and then you can customize it, add memory, another hard drive, bigger
monitor... etc.

Well, each time you select from the menu to customize the computer, the price
updates.

I am making a similar thing. BUT ITS NOT A SHOPPING CART!!!.. I want the
visitors to be able to make their own custom package of "wedding
videography"... the advantage? They see in real time, how much it will cost
them. Then when they're ready, they send it as a "Request for Services" to the
videographers.

The vidographers in turn, get an email and see a request, and can contact
their potential client and discuss what they've chosen.

That's the idea. Now in that process, I know everything except the part that
UPDATES THE PRICE in real time, as if it was a cart.

How do I do that?

[ryanthered@mac.com]

The Apple Store uses AJAX technology to dynamically update the price when a
control is selected. I would recommend doing a search or getting a book on
basic AJAX to learn how to do that. If you already know Javascript and XML,
then you're 90% there.

[Magic Maker]

My best guess would be to add an afterUpdate behavior on each field that you
have that will refresh the page.

but you will probably need to pass the current field contents to a session
variable and bring it back in to the fields after refreshing so that you donlt
loose the data