Order and calculate item by square meter

[Guest]

Hi,

I'm new to this forum. I'm checking several shop scripts to adopt for a customer. They have a shop where the customer can order some items by square meter. So the customer can pick the item and tell they want 2.5 meter by 3 meter of this item. At the moment, it's just a javaScript page that calculates width by height and puts the price times square meters into the total price field. (yes I know, that ist not a professional method for an order form :oops: but the customer told me to do so because he was on the very tight budget :roll: )

 

Now I would like to use osCommerce as a base for their new shop software. I want to implement this feature and now I wonder what would be the best way to start with. I would like to contribute the changes, so that future versions of osCommerce can use it.

 

Any hints are welcome

 

Marian

[Emmtee]

possible method:

use x and y options to store dimensions and use quantity for charging per m? (allows you to limit dimensions btw) ... place java script inside html description of product to calculate quantity depending on the selected dimensions..... use human to check if customer had cheated (better off, add comment that this will be checked before delivery and billing)...