Topic: Amatuer requiring assistance

[Iamdbat]

Beginner and amateur in need of assistance

My Site - www.spareparts.ie (Spare Parts for Domestic Appliances)

I've gone as far as I can go on my own and need guidance

What I require is custom searches - I need to return records based on multiple criteria for example

1: Enter Make > 2: Enter Model > 3: Enter description

If anyone can offer any assistance - I would be grateful

Thanks

[Adam]

Me thinks wrong forum for this. What kind of assistance are you after?

[Iamdbat]

Wrong Forum? - I figured that as my site isn't quite there that it may have been the right place

What I need are custom searches on my site which basically I don't know how to do or go about so I was looking for advice and pointers to get to where I need to be

[Adam]

Well... You'll need to start by learning a web programming language, perhaps PHP? Advance on to querying databases, returning results, etc. Then learn the theory behind searching and apply it to your needs. If you have no PHP experience, in all honesty, I'd say time to completion would be around 6 months to a year (at least really). You could find tutorials showing you how, but I don't think you'd find any specific any enough for what you're after. If you're willing to pay someone to have this done, you could have it working within a few days.

[Iamdbat]

Thanks for that - I would be willing to pay somebody but it would really depend on the cost

[Dorky]

depending on your host you may find they have the tools to do this in a cost effective package. otherwise i would not go it alone, you run the risk of leaving your site open to web attacks.

[Iamdbat]

With all due respect Dorky, what has custom filters on a database got to do with web attacks or my hosting company?

[Dorky]

With all due respect Dorky, what has custom filters on a database got to do with web attacks or my hosting company?

well i assume you will be using a scripting language to do this(php) and you will need forms that send data to those scripts. if you need further info of the risks involved with server side scripting you can google it.