badger56 Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 hi ! I'm not a PHP master, now i'd like to program an online calculator on my website. it's not the classical calculator with + / - / x / ln etc... but a specific, simple though, calculator. I'd like even to be able to export the results of the calculations into a xls or csv file (that would be the next step) Is that possible to do that with PHP ? or i should look more at javascript or java (dont like that idea) or flash etc... Thanks for your replies ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy-H Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 It's possible using simply HTML and PHP, however, would involve a page refresh each time a 'button' on the calculator was pressed. I personally think you would be better off using javascript for this. When you say it's not a conventional calculator, what do you mean? You could do it by appending each button press to a $_GET[] querystring or storing it in a $_SESSION[], should you decide to use PHP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anti-Moronic Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 To clarify above, it means you would have to construct the query with just html, and then would require a page refresh for calculation. You can definitely do this very easily using a form. In fact, I recently built a specific calculator for calculating usage and savings on different types of lightbulbs. Only used php and html. If your calculator is *meant* to resemble that of a classic calculator you will definitely need to use javascript somewhere along the line to provide real time feedback. Are you a developer yourself? Because if you don't even know where to start, it may be a better idea to hire somebody to do this for you and you modify to your tastes. Here's a link: Search Results Hope that helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badger56 Posted November 3, 2010 Author Share Posted November 3, 2010 thanks very much for your replies guys ! by not a conventional calculator, i mean, it's not the calculator you have on your iphone, or windows calculator etc... that tells you what is the result of 3x4 etc.. it's actually a VBA program that i have (a formula using exponential and all), and that i want to transpose to an online calculator, to propose to my visitors to do the calculations straight from the website. you basically have 2,3 fields to fill with a number value, and when you click "result" it will tell you the result. if i understood well, with javascript, you may not have to click any "result" button, it would show automatically. am i right ? thanks anti-moronic, i'll start with some already existing scripts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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