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TalkingFish

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5:40 pm May 8, 2009

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If there is a thread that addresses this, I'm not finding it. I'm under a pretty serious deadline to finish this, and any help would be appreciated.

What I'm doing is using cForms II to send me information collected from a customer to create products specifically for the customer, which I'm calling an "order" form. I do not bill at the time of order, I bill on acceptance. However, it is only fair to give the customer an idea how much he/she will be paying on the collection form.

I thought of adding a simple shopping cart in addition and stripping out some of the functionality, but I would still need to know what their choices were along with additional information I'm collecting through the form, so this would require the customer to make the same choices twice. Rather than trying to make two different plugins talk to each other, it still makes sense to me to keep this all within cForms.

What I think will do is a set of dropdowns. Each product has two or more pricing options (conditional, but I think I'll pass on trying to program in the enforcement of the conditions), and it seems like I could place the product and cost in each dropdown line and the cost by itself for the product in a hidden field for the drop-down line. Then I could have some field at the end of the group of products show the total cost for the items selected. It would seem to me that even an "onclick" function would be acceptable ("Click here for your Total.")

I see how this would work in Excel or Access, but obviously this isn't Excel.

This has to be possible here, but my programming skills are nil.

Again, any help would be appreciated.

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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7:50 am May 9, 2009

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It seems that you're doing this on a commercial project, please not that when you do change core code of cforms that you adhere to the GPL conditions and regulations, speciificlaly conerning any form of code modifications which needs to be fully documented (in the code).

For this type of engagement I further recommend you hire a programmer to help you build this. That's how they make their living.

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TalkingFish

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6:25 pm May 9, 2009

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Oliver –

It is possible I did not communicate with sufficient clarity, but my intent is not to have anything to do with the core code. The text fields in cForms "honor" HTML, and I was exploring the premise that perhaps these fields and the hidden output value fields could be used for the kind of data calculation and display I was attempting to describe, perhaps by embedding a piece of javascript in the page where the cForm "lives."

Not being a programmer, I don't know if such is possible.

I was interested in utilizing your product, not tampering with it.

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Oliver

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7:24 pm May 9, 2009

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sorry if I read too much between the lines. even if you wanted to tamper with cforms, it'd be OK, just wanted to point out the GPL implications.

cforms doesn't support real-time form field changes, e.g. one drop down determining whether or not another field is shown, totals based on input in other fields can not be automatically calculated and so forth….

all the above you'd have to do 'ontop' of cforms using Javascript (e.g. jQuery).

if you need to have the form (only intially when called) display different custom values, you need to use cforms dynamic form feature (requires PHP knowledge, see Help page for examples)

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