Drop Down Menu Search Confusion

[modeman]

Hi All,

I am confused as to what I need to do in order to obtain the results I am looking for. Let me explain it a little further and hopefully someone will be able to give me some insight on what needs to be done.

I have a buddy of mine who owns a used car dealership. He asked me to make him a website so he could display his inventory online. The problem that I am running into is that he has been a big fan of www.autotrader.com and likes how you can choose from a drop-down menu the manufacturer of the car, the model, price range, etc. and then once you click search a new page is populated with the results according to what you asked for. My question is what language is used to do the search and generate a results page like that and what exactly do I need to do to make it work?

In case it is a factor his website will be on a linux server.

Thanks all

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

Well its done with a server side language, possibly php, asp. Its going to require a database, possibly a sql, then a script to process the users request and return the correct results. The script should pick the results from the database that needs to be made.