Creating a Part Number Form

Hello,

I'm trying to find out if there is a way to make a form page that would generate a part number.

As an example, say you were selling a new car.... The purchaser would have choices of 10 available options, with several choices per option. Each option would generate a digit in the 10 digit part number. The digit created by the option would be determined by a choice from a drop down menu. At the bottom of the form would be the generated part number, which would update live as the purchaser chooses options.

I hope I've explained my goal clearly enough.
Can this be done as part of a website ?
What type of program would be necessary to create this ?

Thanks in advance for your help !

Nick

PHP would do it, assembling the number after the form is submitted (submit could be labelled "Generate part number")

Javascript could write the number to the form, probably.

On your form each option would have its value set to the corresponding part number. Then, once submitted, the values would make up the part number.

To have it update automatically, as they choose options, you would probably have to use some Javascript / Ajax

You should have just said AJAX since J = Javascript.

Originally Posted by FourSeventy You should have just said AJAX since J = Javascript.

You don't necessarily need the features of AJAX, Javascript by itself could probably do it. Which is probably why he said Javascript / AJAX.

However, on a php page, assembling the part number from the parts that make it using PHP seems more sensible to me.