designing an multi item order form

[Guest]

I am looking to design a order form for a sandwich shop that can be printed
for faxing and/or emailed. I can do a simple form ok for one item but I want
to be able to have any number of items with multible check boxs for each,
which would then be sent togather as one record. I am not up to date on web
programming. In a data base this would be similar to an invoice with parent
and child relationships. I guess it also kinda like a shopping cart but i do
not need anything so elaborate. thanks

 

[Guest]

The usual approach is to just hard-code 5, 6, 8 or whatever lines of text box
ane/or drop-down lists for quantity and item.

If you want something more elaborate, like a truly variable number of items,
a generated order number, and price computations (including discounts for
daily specials and "combo" meals) you'd have to program that in ASP.NET or
ASP.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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[Guest]

Looks like i'll be needing to learn another new language, though it may be
possible to limit customers to only 8 or less items per order i would rather
allow them more.