Hi,

 

I cannot find anything on the net to explain how I would go about making a form with a preview area, so if I changed a font or the text colour it would preview what I have typed in a preview box.

for example something along the lines of this:

Example

I don't know if it is my terminology i wrong when searching in google, would it be called a form preview??

 

Any ideas on how to go about designing one of these forms or know what they would be worded as, will be most appreciated thanks.

You'd need javascript and php (to handle the fonts/images). Css3 could be capable of handling the font preview bit.

 

Their code is here (don't steal, examine). - http://www.vipergraf.../personalize.js

 

Notice that they're processing it the image via php, and just passing the variables (like font and colour etc) to the url through js

 

I don't know what the terminology is for it though, i'll have a look around for you

 

Edit: I have a jquery based ajax form submit tut posted somewhere on this forum, that could probably be modified to suit. But you'd still need to find or write the php to process the images. How comfortable are you with these languages?

Thanks for your reply, I have only just got html and css down still need to study the others. Great help, time to get my head down I think, where would be best to start.

 

Thanks

I have done a bit a reseach on this and don't know where to strart. I found another example here, but don't need it anywhere near as detailed as this, I just need a text area, font choices, colour choices, and outline, then a button to send all details to my zen cart purchase.

here's the complex example My link

and here's another, this is more basic and close to what i'll need My link

 

any help will be greatly appreciated

Would it be quicker to learn flash and make a flash 'design online tool' rather than learning Css3, java and php?

 

thanks