Selection based site

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(I’m posting in this section as well, as I’m not sure where the best place is)

Hi,
I think I’ll start by describing what I’m trying to do. If you’ve ever seen those sites like a car manufacturer’s site, when you start off with an image of a basic car model, and you can choose features, for example: red paint, rear spoiler, roof racks, whatever (and it updates an image and a price as you add/remove features). Well, that’s pretty much what I’m trying to figure out how to do.

I’ve worked a mainly with html, actionscript, css…a few things like that, but not a lot with dynamic content etc.

So, really what I’m looking for is a place to start, like some links to some useful tuts, or some ideas of how you would do it…

Thanks,
Josh :thumb:

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Start by learning PHP and SQL (mysql, postgres type databases).

Basically those sites are just running queries in a database from what you tell it in the form. So learn how to use PHP and MySQL those basic tutorials should start you in a good path.

id name      type  color spoiler roofracks
1  something suv   red   false   true
2  hmm       4door blue  true    false
ect...
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Thanks for the reply :slight_smile:
I think I’ll look into trying to actionscript, I might try create variables so that if a button is selected then it loads a movie which is part of the (example) car picture. And if it isn’t selected it loads a blank movie clip ( so the nothing is displayed). Then I can create variables to represent the components selected and then send it to myself so I know what they’ve selected…that’s where my thoughts are at the moment…

I will also have a look into PHP and see if I can pick it up enough to do this.

Thanks again.