[paatus]

Hi all!

Is it possible to make a script that would update a price based on a variable? I'll explain: The spot price on silver changes every minute. I sell silver bullion for let's say $2.50 over spot. The script would check for changes in the spot price every minute, add my $2.50 markup, and then adjust the price accordingly directly on my website. I also need an option to easily change/edit the markup in the script. The script must also calculate the price based on discounts:

5-49 (basic price)
50-99 (5% discount, editable)
100-499 (7% discount, editable)
500 or more (9% discount, editable)

So, if the editable part in the script looked something like this;

[spot] + (markup) 2.50 * (amount) 49 = [price]
[spot] + (markup) 2.50 * (amount) 99 / (discount) 5% = [price]
[spot] + (markup) 2.50 * (amount) 499 / (discount) 7% = [price]
[spot] + (markup) 2.50 * (amount) 500 / (discount) 9% = [price]

I don't know any programming and if this is possible at all, so I thought this might be the right place to ask. Am I way off on what can be done in programming here?

[paatus]

*bump* Anyone? Just a "No-can-do!" would help..

[Steelman]

You won't get any answers in here. This is a New Members & Introductions area. Try asking in the appropriate forum located here: http://www.programmingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=137 (Script Requests)

[paatus]

Thanks, I'll try there! Admin: delete thread?

[Christian]

Thread moved to appropriate forum...
Welcome to the forums, all scripts request should be posted in the Script Request forum.

[wirehopper]

This can be done in programming, but I'd argue it is custom, you're not likely to find something immediately usable.

My (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) approach would be to develop a cron job that gets the price of silver every minute. It would simply write that value to a file on your server - every minute - and then the computations you describe above would use that value to compute the price for the pages on your site.

You might want to post it as a job opportunity and see what it would cost. It should not be too expensive.