Would it be possible for me to do this on my site?

Colbaker · 3 Dec 2009 at 12:49

Hi all,

I am looking at putting something on my website that has a sort of questions and answers interface, basically on the front page my site will be asking a question, for instance "do you live in a flat" then i want either a drop down box or an input box to enter YES or NO, When this is answered i then want the site to give another question and so on.

How could i do this, Maybe using a Flash interface? I am a noob at anything web based so am planning on teaching myself.

Many thanks

GravyMonster · 3 Dec 2009 at 13:01

Yup. That's pretty straightforward to do. However I would say Flash is the last thing you'd want to do it in.

Do you know what server side languages your hosting supports? - eg. PHP/ASP etc.
A mix of that and javascript to show/hide the options would be the best way to go.

GravyMonster · 3 Dec 2009 at 13:27

You could do it all in a server side language, but every time you answered one question and wanted the next to appear it'd mean a trip back to the server for the user and slow the whole process down.

JS would make it better for usability, and also less load on the server - although that's just a minor corollary.

suarve · 3 Dec 2009 at 14:07

Spunkey said:
corollary.

nice word, had to google that one

GravyMonster · 3 Dec 2009 at 14:32

Sorry

I've been wading through tech specs today who were written buy a guy who has a vocabulary instead of a penis, and he just loves to **** my head with it.

suarve · 3 Dec 2009 at 14:44

Will try that word myself at some point

Colbaker · 3 Dec 2009 at 14:47

My Host server has PHP and SQL, Is there a 3rd party application that will help me with this or am i going to have to learn html?

Colbaker · 3 Dec 2009 at 16:44

vaultingSlinky said:
If you don't know any html, php, javascript or mysql, you best start learning

http://www.w3schools.com/ is a good place to start

Thanks for the site linky, pretty good site.