Re[2]: [PHP] related products, how to's best practices

2003-12-04 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Jon, Thursday, December 4, 2003, 12:59:17 PM, you wrote: JB They are in groups (type, category) but the problem is the way their JB products relate doesn't correspond to their type (book, video etc) or JB their category (like Classic Books, Rewarding Social Skills etc) and JB some products

Re: [PHP] related products, how to's best practices

2003-12-04 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Jon, Thursday, December 4, 2003, 12:42:28 PM, you wrote: JB I don't think getting the info into the db will be a problem, what I JB see as a problem is how an admin will select 3 out of 200+ products. JB Obviously a drop down is a bad idea, but so would a alphabetical list. JB has anyone

Re: [PHP] related products, how to's best practices

2003-12-04 Thread Jon Bennett
Hi, Why should I not use drop downs ?? are they generally out of favour now ?? why ??? I ask because I was thinking of having each categories products listed in a drop down ! Thanks, Jon jon bennett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] new media designer / developer _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Re[2]: [PHP] related products, how to's best practices

2003-12-04 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Jon, Thursday, December 4, 2003, 1:08:36 PM, you wrote: JB Why should I not use drop downs ?? are they generally out of favour now JB ?? why ??? Not at all. JB I ask because I was thinking of having each categories products listed JB in a drop down ! You said there were over 200 of

Re: [PHP] related products, how to's best practices

2003-12-04 Thread Jon Bennett
They are in groups (type, category) but the problem is the way their products relate doesn't correspond to their type (book, video etc) or their category (like Classic Books, Rewarding Social Skills etc) and some products appear in more than one category as well. Any other ideas ?? Thanks,

[PHP] related products, how to's best practices

2003-12-04 Thread Jon Bennett
Hi, I'm currently working on my first e-commerce site and would like to offer my client the option of adding, maybe 3, related products for each product using the CMS I'm developing. I guess this would be much like Amazon et all. I don't think getting the info into the db will be a problem,

Re: [PHP] related products, how to's best practices

2003-12-04 Thread Justin French
On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 11:42 PM, Jon Bennett wrote: I'm currently working on my first e-commerce site and would like to offer my client the option of adding, maybe 3, related products for each product using the CMS I'm developing. I guess this would be much like Amazon et all. I

Re: [PHP] related products, how to's best practices

2003-12-04 Thread Jon Bennett
Would I be right in thinking that php alone can't change the content of a dropdown once the browser has loaded the file without a page refresh ??? In which case I need to source out some javascript, anyone got anything that might help me (code, tute, urls etc) as I'm not having much luck with

Re[2]: [PHP] related products, how to's best practices

2003-12-04 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Jon, Thursday, December 4, 2003, 3:43:53 PM, you wrote: JB Would I be right in thinking that php alone can't change the content of JB a dropdown once the browser has loaded the file without a page refresh Right. JB ??? In which case I need to source out some javascript, anyone got JB

Re: [PHP] related products, how to's best practices

2003-12-04 Thread Matt Matijevich
** Low Priority ** snip Jon Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/4/2003 9:43:53 AM Would I be right in thinking that php alone can't change the content of a dropdown once the browser has loaded the file without a page refresh ??? In which case I need to source out some javascript, anyone got

Re: [PHP] related products, how to's best practices

2003-12-04 Thread Jon Bennett
How about a dropdown for each category (max 25 products per cat I'd think) with either a series of radio buttons or another dropdown to determine the order of preference (1,2 or3), how would something like that stand up to the user interface and usuability bods ?? Dang, that wouldn't work,

Re: [PHP] related products, how to's best practices

2003-12-04 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:43:53PM +, Jon Bennett wrote: Would I be right in thinking that php alone can't change the content of a dropdown once the browser has loaded the file without a page refresh ??? In which case I need to source out some javascript, anyone got anything that might

RE: [PHP] related products, how to's best practices

2003-12-04 Thread Chris W. Parker
Justin French mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, December 04, 2003 6:03 AM said: 2. Javascript pop-up -- you could take this part of the process out of the main window, and into a JS pop-up window which let's the user dig through categories, do searches, WHATEVER to find each product.