what programming language am i looking for?

Hobbsie · 12 Oct 2015 at 19:02

Hi all.

Im looking to learn to make a bit of code for my dads website, a basic breakdown of what i want......
he sells lampspares/cable/plugs etc.

He wants to have a create your own custom cable section, were the customer can choose 1st the cable type then colour from there it will narrow down the options to choose the plug or if they want an inline switch.
all this to add up a total somewhere to then add to cart.
also to have each product picture by the sidw of the options... or something similar.

im getting more and more confident in HTML and CSS but i think this may be java script / j query? if i know what route to go down i may be able to try and have a crack

thanks

sb89 · 12 Oct 2015 at 20:03

Creating the cable selection and option narrowing system could easily be done using html/css/javascript.

I'm not sure on how you plan on the customer paying/order handling, that'll be more involved.

jsmoke · 13 Oct 2015 at 06:38

AJAX/Javascript would do the job.

GravyMonster · 13 Oct 2015 at 09:08

AJAX is an odd suggestion if you've got no server-side code knowledge to hook to.

peterwalkley · 13 Oct 2015 at 10:05

At some stage you will need some code running on the server side. You should check what the hosting provider will allow as that is probably the key limitation.

Hobbsie · 13 Oct 2015 at 18:29

hmm ok thanks maybe that bit may be above my knowledge.