hi,
i want to create some sort of order tracking for my website. How could i do this, it doesnt have to be password protected but that would be useful

How are you taking orders now? How is order information being stored?

This kind of thing needs to be integrated into your whole ecommerce system.

What kind of site do you have? .asp, .php, etc?
Could you put up a link to your site?
Mdurkee

hi,
the website is www.protectyourplates.co.uk

You seem to be using PayPal, so you either need to get the tracking info from them, or upgrade to an ecommerce system that will provide you with the tracking info you want.

Hi,
Paypal doesn't do this. I figured that the easiest way to do this is to have pages on my website that contains everyone's order details. For example, www.protectyourplates.co.uk/ng46he would be the page where someones unique order details are contained. I would like a text line where people can enter their name and when they press submit they are forwarded to www.mywebsite.com/thecodetheyentered. Does anyone know of a html code which will allow me to do this?

HTML pages can "contain" everyone's order details (unless you plan to publish them). There are no "html codes" that do the sort of thing you want - it has to be done by a server script. If you have a database with the details in, it is easy to display whatever is needed in a particular case. If you don't it's not realistically possible.

Hi,
Maybe I am being a bit confusing. I plan to publish pages like www.protectyourplates.co.uk/ng38dj. These pages will contain when the order was sent, the city it is being sent to and when it is expected to arrive. When someone orders i will manually create a code and page for them. Instead of asking them to type in the url i want then to type in the code and when they press submit they are transferred to a page. For example. If someone orders they are sent a code, aaa777 for example. I want a box in which they can enter aaa777. When they press submit they are sent to the page www.protectyourplates.co.uk/aaa777. Is there a code to do this?
Thanks,
Jordan

See the FAQ entry How can I use forms for pull-down navigation menus?

The only difference is that you'll be using an <input type="text"> element rather than a <select> element.

Thank you but this doesnt help. Is there a code that will take the user to the page they entered? By the way, I am not very experienced with html. I need something like this: document.pressed=this.value. Thhis doesnt work because my host doesnt let me have special characters in web addresses