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Car Lookup in my website?
Hi all,
Designing a website for a friend who has a small business buying and selling cars.
I'm decent-ish with forms and php so I can bounce someone's Car Reg to my friends email okay...but all I'd really like to know is if there's some way I could integrate some free Reg lookup script after they've put it in and hit the 'submit' button so it looks professional.
No heavy details really. Just an 'Is this your car?', Make, Model, Year type thing. Like these:
http://www.webuyyourwheels.com/
http://www.kwik-fit.com/tyre-search.asp
Thanks guys!
1 Answer
- AshLv 49 years agoFavorite Answer
This sort of code is a few days work, unless you offer to pay a web developer to design this form you're pretty screwed, I'm a pro at this sort of stuff, but this would take me weeks to suss, I will have a look at it for you, but I can't promise that I will succeed. Better to be honest with you, than lead you down a dark path of problems...
Might update in a hour or so.
{EDIT}
After a little look, if I'm honest you have no chance! The script that I have just looked at is 4222 lines long, and that's the shortest i've found, and the thing is although you could port 90% of it directly onto your website, there is several hundred tags that are website specific and I fear that way that you'd never get it to work, furthermore there is the moral issue that you would be stealing someone else's work.
If i was in your position I would create a contact form, and just phone people back, if you've got the money you could contact Blue Shark Design, the people that designed http://www.webuyyourwheels.com/ and did a great job.
It really depends on what you want, if the business is small, with minor growth, and long term future gains, is a kick *** website really going to improve his business? Or would a contact form with a promise that he'll contact them ASAP improve customer relations and give a personal touch to the whole thing!?
That's my ten pence, sorry I couldn't have been more help!
Ash