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    Web based flow chart..thing

    Hello guys and gals,

    Noob here looking for help.

    I am wanting to create a web based/ button based flow chart.

    Simply and basically, if it was not clear from the above.

    I want it to hopefully work like this for example.

    First question would be: -

    What operating system do you use?

    XP VISTA MAC OS (Dont know name/s)

    User selects one of the option's, for example XP.

    That quest hides/ closes and next one appears.

    Is the problem "X"?

    Yes No

    User clicks, then next question.

    etc etc

    I think you get the idea.

    I dont really have a clue on how to do this or what language I might need to use.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks
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    Re: Web based flow chart..thing

    2 options really.

    1) make a series of web pages and use a server-side technology like perl, php, asp, asp.net. Each time the users clicks a button it sends a request to the server, depending on the value sent the server serves the appropriate next page.

    2) use javascript, using the display style property to show and hide different <div> elements with the appropriate next questions on.

    Both relatively simple - the javascript option would benefit from not having to round trip to the server for each click and also you could write the page yourself then just open it in a browser for testing, rather than having to have it properly hosted on a suitable server. If you intend to do this buy yourself a decent teach yourself book. perl and php books usually come with a software disk that lets you install Apache / Perl / PHP to either linux or windows machines (I have a Win 2K Pro PC at home serving PHP and Perl pages via Apache) so you can run your own test server.

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    Re: Web based flow chart..thing

    Well the first option is out as we dont have servers and the chances are we wouldnt get permission to have perl and such installed, so it looks as if the Javascript is the way to go.

    Will have to look into the javascript option as not really done much with it before, I know I could get the options opening in the same div and stuff.

    Cheers Jim
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    Re: Web based flow chart..thing

    Make sure you have a good look at CSS as well, as that's the easiest way to interact with the page. You can have each set of questions / answers in their own div, set them to all have the same position with position: absolute; then use a function to simply turn off and on the appropriate divs using display: none;. Should be fairly straightforward, if longwinded.

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    Re: Web based flow chart..thing

    Jim again, cheers.

    CSS I like to think I know pretty well as for HTML as well.

    TAKTAK, thanks! That should be perfect for what I need!

    Just need to look at editing it when I have a little more free time.
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