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Name: Dimebag
Date: November 25, 2005 at 04:51:56 Pacific
Subject: Booking form
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I would like to create an HTML web booking form, preferrably one similar to the one here - http://www.nationalexpress.co.uk/ . I am using Dreamweaver MX. Thanks!



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Response Number 1
Name: Michael J (by mjdamato)
Date: November 25, 2005 at 11:37:26 Pacific
Subject: Booking form
Reply: (edit)

You are going to need a lot more than Dreamweaver. In fact, you may not be able to use Dreamweaver at all (except to maybe design the page layout). You are going to need to use a scripting language such as ASP or PHP with a database backend in order to accomplish this. It will get really complex if you are wanting this to integrate into another system as the one you liked to most likely does.

Michael J


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Response Number 2
Name: Dimebag
Date: November 26, 2005 at 04:34:43 Pacific
Subject: Booking form
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Uhhhh, I'm ready to learn and/or copy. If there's a tutorial somewhere, then I'd be grateful. I'm sure Dreamweaver supports ASP and PHP


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Response Number 3
Name: Michael J (by mjdamato)
Date: November 26, 2005 at 08:30:28 Pacific
Subject: Booking form
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Are you hosting this yourself or are you having someone else host it? If you are having someone else host it, what technologies do they support? If you will host it yourself, you need to decide upon which technology you want this to be based on (the two most popular being PHP and ASP). then you need to decide upon a database server (Microsofts SQL and MySQL come to mind).

OK, once you've settled on your technology, I'd start with the system requirements. Having a form for someone to make selections on is one thing, but what happens to the data once they submit it. Does it get email to someone, does someone log into a admin site to verify/confirm the reservations. Are you wanting these reservations to feed into another system? Etc., etc.

Then you need to designing the database. If you've never designed or worked with databases before I can't really explain what you need to know in a forum post. Do some googleing or pick up a book.

As for the actual coding, if you have ever programmed before then you should be able to pick up pretty quicking using some reference sites for PHP or ASP. If not, you either need to find some beginner tutorials or get a book on the language you will use. If you know JavaScript fairly well, then PHP will be VERY easy to pick up - the biggest difference being that you will need to learn about database interaction.

Here is a tutorial on creating a login for PHP that I used to get started with PHP. However, I had some experience with programming and databases beforehand, so that helped.

Going forward, do what you can and if you get stuck ask specific questions in this forum. There just isn't enough space to fully answer a question such as this. Good luck.

Michael J


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Response Number 4
Name: Dimebag
Date: November 26, 2005 at 11:11:52 Pacific
Subject: Booking form
Reply: (edit)

First of all, it's not going to be hosted. It's for an ICT course. I have to make an online booking type wesite for funnily enough, a coach complany. I want to do something a bit special. As with the national express site, I want people to be able to select a departure point and destination and for as much info on the journey as possible to be produced. then other things such as hotels or tourist attraction which can be added to the bill. Then possible credit or debit details can be provided for payment, or tickets can be booked and mailed which would probably require the details to be e-mailed upon submit. I think I'm looking way ahead of my game, but I don't want anything tacky. Thanks a lot!


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