Re: Form Process Question

Gary wrote: > I have a client that I have made some forms for. On one of the forms, their > customers are to registar for a class. The cost of the class is 195 per > person. She would like to have the people be able to have the total cost > calculated for them before they submit the form. (I already have the cost > calculated in the email and result page). > > I thought about creating a separate form within the original form page that > could calculate the cost, and process it to itself, I suppose I would need > to create a session so all the information in the first form is not wiped > out. > > Is there an easier way to do this or is there a way to create this > calculator that changes upon the input instead of clicking a calculate > button? > > Thanks > > Gary > > > You have two options as I see it: 1. Use some javascript that calculates onchange of the form controls. 2. Have a continue/submit button that posts back to the same page that does a calculate on submit and show a confirmation page with the total and then a finish button. -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com