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producing a comparison quote system

by wblearner
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hi i am a regular reader of the forums and i have feel the need to ask a question as i am really struggling to get my head around designing a quote comparison system.

i have built only two sites using wordpress and am very new to the internet marketing scene.

i wondered if someone would be kind enough to explain how a quote system built with in java in a webpage that sends and then receives xml data, to and from, a third party server which then displays the results in a comparison table would work?

to learn how to do this where would i need to focus my studies?

is this simply to big of a job for someone as an early project?

sorry if i am not clear on anything, I'm kinda nervous of sounding stupid too :confused: but everyone got to start somewhere right.

please ask if i haven't given enough info many thanks
#comparison #producing #system
  • Profile picture of the author tweakr
    Not to discourage your use of Java for this project, but if you're just starting out an easier solution might be to go with PHP. You'll be able to get your project off the ground and running much faster this way.

    A basic layout would be, have the backend code grab the prices from all the different data sources store it in a database, and possibly use Ajax calls to get the data and display it in the front end.

    I'm not sure how many sites you are planning to include or how many products. But if you're looking to do a huge site, you may have a hard time with this if it's one of your first projects. But you could at least mess around with it and see what you come up with.
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    • Profile picture of the author wblearner
      Originally Posted by tweakr View Post

      Not to discourage your use of Java for this project, but if you're just starting out an easier solution might be to go with PHP. You'll be able to get your project off the ground and running much faster this way.

      A basic layout would be, have the backend code grab the prices from all the different data sources store it in a database, and possibly use Ajax calls to get the data and display it in the front end.

      I'm not sure how many sites you are planning to include or how many products. But if you're looking to do a huge site, you may have a hard time with this if it's one of your first projects. But you could at least mess around with it and see what you come up with.
      thank you very much for your reply. i just looking to do the one site however once the quote system is designed, i figure i could impliment it on other sites using an iframe.

      the reason i said java was mainly because when i inspect code of existing systems it seems to use java so i assume this is what i would need to learn. but i will look at PHP if this is your advice.

      the people i have to send the xml data to already have the comparison system. i must send say around 5 fields to them via xml and in return, they send back the results in xml data. because of this do i need to store the data in a database then ?
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      • Profile picture of the author lluporini
        I think you can try to do a mockup of your interface and then when you are confident that you got your main requirements covered you can continue building your backbend code.

        the mockup can be done using something JavaScript based if you want a single page app kind or a typical request response oriented framework like groovy, cakephp, django or rails just to name a few.

        finally for your backbend code you can use java or integrate it on your already chosen framework if you followed that path.

        drop a line if you want more details, I will be glad to help.

        best,
        luis
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