First of all id like to say hi, as im new here. this place looks pretty cool and im hoping it will help me with my work and in time i might be able to help others
anyway just to set the background this is the assignment i have to do:
Developing an Open Source shopping list application using PHP
Your application should have the following functionality:
The ability to:
• Create, save, edit and delete shopping lists.
• Add, delete, edit items on lists
• Create, edit and delete categories for the lists.
Where a list may have a number of categories and categories may have a number of items. Think of the categories as aisles or areas of the supermarket.
It is important that a user can edit the order of categories and of items within categories. This allows a list to be formatted to suit different shops.
You should use two CSS files, one for web viewing (mobile device compatible) and one for printing to A4.
You must demonstrate the use of:
XML or JSON, and OO techniques.
I kind of had to jump in the deep end into my course, so whilst this may seem easy to you guys it isnt that easy for me.
my plan was to create a database which will store everything in, and then the users can add and delete things (which ill have to figure out).
i was thinking of having a drop down box which displays "add category, edit, delete, etc", then based on what the user clicks another box will come up, for example if you click add category a box will come up allowing you to type and submit a new category, or if you want to add to an existing one, you can select it from a drop down list and then some fields will appear and you can write in the data.
would this work / are there any other ways of doing it? found some code on the net to produce drop down boxes but i cant get it working and its now making me wonder if i should keep trying it or if im just missing the task at hand all together, as there just isnt a lot of info on what to do.
any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers.