Some help for a newbie please - just some pointers to get started.

[budfox]

Hello everyone.

 

I'm a bit of a PHP newbie I'm afraid. My experience is limited to slightly modifying existing code, such as in Joomla, to make small changes.

I have no real idea how to write a piece of code from scratch and unfortunately, I need to.

 

For my own satisfaction, I'd rather do it myself, learning as I go, with just a few pointers to get things started. I need to do the following:

 

On my page (which happens to be a Zen Cart store) I need a box where someone types their UK postcode. I'm going to simplify the next bit so that my explanation is easier.

 

Once the script has got the postcode, it checks against a list of postcodes that we deliver to, and then either prints: 'yes we deliver to your area' if it finds a match. If not is says 'sorry, we don't deliver'

 

So in summary this is what happens:

 

User inputs postcode and hits a 'check' button.

PHP checks to see if the postcode is on the list.

If it is, we get a 'yes' message.

If it isn't, we get a 'no' message.

 

I don't want the page to reload, just the answer to appear underneath the input box. In reality, there are three delivery zones, and I want 'yes we deliver and it will cost £x.xx to deliver to your area' but I'll work that out.

 

Thanks for any help

 

Steve

[schilly]

well if you don't want the page to reload you'll have to look into AJAX.

 

basically a form with one field and a submit button. use ajax to submit the form to your php script that checks the postal code and returns yes or no.