# Selection based site **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [June 22, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/selection-based-site/264070 "2008-06-22T23:14:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JoshuaR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e57/32.png) [@JoshuaR](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JoshuaR)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/selection-based-site/264070/1 "2008-06-22T23:14:55Z")
(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: ---
**Author:** ![Templarian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/templarian/32/7152_2.png) [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/selection-based-site/264070/2 "2008-06-23T00:10:55Z")
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. ```auto id name type color spoiler roofracks 1 something suv red false true 2 hmm 4door blue true false ect... ``` ---
**Author:** ![JoshuaR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e57/32.png) [@JoshuaR](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JoshuaR)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/selection-based-site/264070/3 "2008-06-24T03:36:28Z")
Thanks for the reply 🙂 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.