[Pro] customizable "cost calculator" php script

Hello,

I will be working in a Cargo Freight company and the requested me to include a customizable cost calculator form similar to this link. I researched sites such as PHPJabbers, hotscripts.com and others and haven’t found anything. The only options I found was to write it from scratch or hire somebody to do it, because I don’t code yet…, but maybe this something I could do myself, using the PHP easiForm, Forms to Go or even the PHP feedback form. What do you guys think?

Thanks!

Marcus

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There’s two different approaches you can take for a cost calculator. One is to offer an “estimator” on the screen, you code that in JavaScript, and it updates in real time as the visitor updates one or two form fields. Those fields (but not the calculated product) are uploaded to your server – and any form handler can manage that. But that’s inherently un-trustworthy, though, because the calculation is happening in the browser (where it can be tampered with) so while you show it to the customer to give her an idea of costs, you then make the actual calculation yourself once you get the two or more fields in your in-box.

The other approach is to calculate the values in the server. You can do this pretty simply by altering the code that PHP Feedback Form generates to handle your form, and then using that altered handler manually (after removing the Action from your page). The down-side to this is that the customer can’t see the result of the calculation until after the form is submitted.

If you can mock up what you want the form to look like in Freeway, and post a link to it here along with instructions (multiply the ‘weight’ field by the current phase of the moon) to calculate the value, someone can help you through this either way. Arithmetic is very simple in either language – it usually ends up looking like you wrote it out in your grade-school homework.

Walter

On Oct 8, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Marcus Do Carmo wrote:

Hello,

I will be working in a Cargo Freight company and the requested me to include a customizable cost calculator form similar to this link. I researched sites such as PHPJabbers, hotscripts.com and others and haven’t found anything. The only options I found was to write it from scratch or hire somebody to do it, because I don’t code yet…, but maybe this something I could do myself, using the PHP easiForm, Forms to Go or even the PHP feedback form. What do you guys think?

Thanks!

Marcus

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Thanks, Walter!
I will go mockup the form during this process and as soon as I have it I’ll post it here. On the meantime I will talk to my client to see which option would better suit his needs

Again, Walter, thank you very much!
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I will start working on this site asap. However my client requested that on the meantime if I could fix something wrong on his actual website. The actual website they have wasn’t built in Freeway but if I probably could use “Coda” or “TextWrangler” to fix it. Supposedly that problem started suddenly with any apparent reason. Any ideas whats wrong?
Here’s the link: http://www.chronoscargo.com


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Hi Marcus,
There are certainly some errors there. It looks like this site is using Joomla version 1.5 which isn’t compatible with PHP 5.3 or above. Ask the web host if they can roll the server back to PHP 5.2 or below or see if you can update Joomla to at least version 1.5.22;

Regards,
Tim.

On 9 Oct 2012, at 22:34, Marcus Do Carmo wrote:

Here’s the link: http://www.chronoscargo.com


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Hi Tim, Thank you very much for giving me this information. I will try one of these options

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