Quote Form

jbcobbs · April 18th, 2006, 03:21 PM

I need to create a quote form for an insurance company which will have a few different criteria, "************, smoking, and age" based on these values i want it to return a price. Is this something difficult to do and if its not can someone please point me in the right direction on how to do this. I appreciate any help.

janise · April 20th, 2006, 02:26 PM

On the page where you receive variables from a form on another page, just use them to calculate the price.

I don't know how you calculate it, so I cannot show an example, but from the form you would probably get three values:
$_POST ['************'], $_POST ['smoking'], and $_POST ['age']. Then use them.

How to transfer variables from one page to another, I tried to explain on this thread:
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=42691

You will have to use the drop-down menus probably, like this:

Code:

<select name="************"><option value='1'>Female</option>
<option value='2'>Male</option></select>

or adding the empty choice:

Code:

<select name="************"><option value='0' selected='selected'>-Choose-</option>
<option value='1'>Female</option>
<option value='2'>Male</option></select>

Mantis · April 25th, 2006, 06:02 PM

You could even do it in javascript.