Posted by Dan Williams on 12/06/05 00:28

Awesome reply, thank you.
My big thing with all of this is keeping it simple.
I agree about the tables etc, the problem is, the specs change so fast.
And I do not want the customer to be with tom amny choices.
That is what I like about the sneakers set up,
They list what they want you to pick that is known to work form 3 or 4
choices, it then calculates, and can create a printable quote.
I have a web server (Linex) with mysql on it, but am not a programmer.
Do you know of any canned solutions you have seen that would work with
slight modification.
Or better yet, a ballpark of what it would cost to have something like this
set up?


"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
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> Dan Williams wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Can anyone advise what "should" be used to creat a pc quote builder
>> similar
>> to what is used here.
>> http://www.sneakerscomputers.com/systems/
>
> I would pick to have a database where I can store the "computers" and
> parts
> that can be picked.
>
> You can have a table for each category, like memory, hard drive, graphics
> card
> and so on. Then you have a table for the computer models. Then you create
> relation tables, computer-part relations, this will be as many as there
> are
> parts that you can pick from. Last you need a default parts table, where
> you
> have the connection for computer and what parts by default.
>
> After that you make a page where you select the compute model, which then
> loads a page which dynamically generates the table depending on which
> relations are between a computer model and parts, so that only those
> things
> that can be used in a computer is shown. The whole page is a big form of
> course, which then stores the data in some way, either into a database
> or/and
> send you a mail.
>
> It's really not that much work if you know basic php and sql.
>
>
> //Aho

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