Shopping basket of text

[humpingdan]

im creating a travel based website which is an online brochure for a particular area of spain, this alos includes adverts placed by local busineses, what i want to be able to do is list of all of these businesses on the site, for them to be organised by catergory and searchable, but also creat a shopping basket of information,

for instance if a business offers a map of the lacal shopping centre, when a user see's the information he/she can click a check box to add that piece of info to a basket.dossier that he/she can download or print off after she/he has finished browsing is this possible?

either on its own, simple list,

or as part of a database?

im a total novice at php so go easy! ;)

Dan

[jamie]

hi dan,

that sounds like a shopping cart. instead of storing articles or products in the database, you are storing bits of text.

have a read of some of the tutorials on zend.com and devshed.com about shopping carts, etc.

good luck

[humpingdan]

i supposse what id like is adverts and paragraphs of text to have a check box or button to add them to a another page which can be viewed at the end of there expreience and printed off to take away with them, its going to be tourist advice, walking trails, b&bs! that kind of thing!

[jamie]

hi dan,

that is exactly what i understood ;)

you are saving customer input/choices to a 'shopping basket' (in a database table) and then accessing the table to display it on the 'checkout' page.

[humpingdan]

can anyone help me out a little more with this?

it needs to be non mySql basically flat file based, can anyone point me in the direction of some sample shopping cart based php scripts?

much help needed!

Dan

[jamie]

hi dan,

i know it will take longer, but the best idea might be to try and learn a bit of php while going along. try the tutorials at zend, devshed, etc.

whilst most shopping cart scripts do more or less what you want, to get it exactly how _you_ want might need a bit of customization.

learning a bit of php can really open your eyes to what is actually possible to do with your site, both for your visitors and your own site maintenance.

good luck