[css-d] Out of the stone age

[Lineberger, Scott]

I feel like I am working from the stone age.  I have a legacy custom Cobol 
application running on SCO Unix and I have built a basic, although very 
in-efficient, web order application.  If you click on the link below, you will 
see that I have a simple order form that will allow the customer to select up 
to 15 different items per order.  Each line item has a drop down that contains 
every item available for purchase, which is several thousand items, and each 
drop down contains an identical list of items.  So, 15 order lines times 
thousands of items and you have a huge html page.

There has to be a way to streamline this.  Due to the age of this server and 
the legacy app, it seems my options are limited.

http://www.coastalind.com/ciordersample.html

Any and all suggestions are welcome.

Scott


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Re: [css-d] Out of the stone age

[Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

Lineberger, Scott wrote:


Any and all suggestions are welcome.


Well, before the list-police step in, this probably isn't
the best place to ask (since it has nothing to do with
CSS per se), but perhaps your server technology will
allow you to dynamically add records, so the initial
form can be minimal.  There is an example of such
a form here :


http://web-consultants.org.uk/sites/porphyrogenitus/Autograph-MSS-V2.3.aspx

Philip Taylor
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