Allow users to select listings they want to print

[pugs421]

I making a site with realestate listings and I want to allow the user to select the listings that interest them, and then allow a page to be displayed with all of their selected listings on a that for printing. Could someone point me in the right direction as far as how the user selections should/could be stored. It's pretty much like a shopping cart.

 

[sleipnir214]

I'd put the data in a session variable array. That array to hold the table record ids of the property

As your users find properties in which they're interested, you add values to the array.


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[pugs421]

So far in my php experience every time I have a user make a selection that has a value, it is contained in a form that is processed. But in this case there is no form being processed. There is just a display of all the results. If I use a checkbox in each of the listings, how would the entered value be processed? Or could I just make a regular button that somehow has an action to store the result as a session variable? Thanks.

 

[sleipnir214]

I'd just put checkboxes next to all listings. When the form is submitted, those boxes that have been checked will appear in either $_POST or $_GET, but the unchecked boxes will not.

The script to which the form submits can then add the ids of the checked boxes to an array that is a session variable. The session variable can then be available to all scripts.

You can produce a script that displays all the previously-selected "products" -- and give check boxes that allow the user to remove items throught the use of form submission and a submit button with a value of "Update entries".

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[pugs421]

There is a site that does what I want to do, but they use a single button image with a javascript onclick assigned to it that I guess stores the value into an array. The user just clicks the button by every listing that they want, and a pop up comes up saying that there selection has been saved on their print list(which they can access whenever).

*Any one know how to implement Javascript onclick to assign values to a variable(or put into an array)?*

Site in question

http://tcpalm.abracat.com/c2/reforrent/results/index.xml

Note the little scissors that allow you to 'cut' the listing. Thanks