Job calculator?

[Sky Captain]

I'm pondering a challenging request from a client. They'd like to offer a sort of job calculator on their website. Essentially, a visitor would choose several multiple choice options (items for sale), and the site would spit out a recommended "package deal", possibly with a price.

I'm pretty sure this is outside of something I can do -- there are dozens of variables. But I'm posting here on the off chance that anyone knows a Javascript calculator or Wordpress plugin I can modify.

Any advice?

[DaveSawers]

Seems to me that this is something that is crying out for a bespoke solution, not something cobbled together from bits of free code. Javascript on its own is unlikely to give you the flexibility of user interaction you need so find yourself a programmer who can do it server side using AJAX or similar. That way you can put the user requests on a database so they can be manually reviewed/refined.

[nickseo]

You could use a typical database search script where you have to select options, there are loads of those about... all that springs to mind are restaurant guides, like where you choose the area you want to eat, then the type of cuisine and it gives you the options available, you could adapt something like that I guess.
I would definitly say its not going to be built just in Javascript, and for the amount of time spent searching and customising an existing script, if you have an idea in mind already of what you want, a bespoke solution might just save you a lot of time and frustration.

[Sky Captain]

Thanks guys. I suspected going to a programmer for something custom-made would be the right solution. I just wanted to confirm there wasn't something ready-made out there already.