Hi Jim -- I know about $POST and passing info. I already used that info to
populate the new form.
There is an exchange on blindwebbers on this thread that seems to say the
only clean way to do what I want is to set up an IPN with paypal where they
send me the results of a successful transaction that I can use on a thank
you page. I don't want to go into the whole thread on blindwebbers.
The problem is that I want to send jamal his email notifications on
successful transactions, but the only way I can set it up now is for the
verification page to send the mail saying the person is about to hit the
donate button, but of course the person could back out, and go back and
change the amount, etc.
So jamal will get some mail that is inaccurate. This also impacts the
running sum of donations, so it may not be accurate.
Hey there jamal, perhaps you might have an idea on how to do this...
The IPN is the only sure way to go but I don't want to spend more time on
this page.
I'll put it up and let jamal look at it and then see if he thinks he can
either wait or us it just the way it is.
*sigh*
This has really been messy.
Not all of it is Jamal's stuff -- I was just doing my personal site and
wanted to get a good framework and a little content and then add Jamal's
fund raiser at the end.
So I've been hacking practically around the clock on ridiculous stuff... but
the paypal transactions are a bit more important to get right.
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim"<jhomme1028@xxxxxxxxx>
To:<programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 10:44 PM
Subject: RE: stuck on minor php problem
Hi Laura,
If I understand what you're trying to do, you have a separate form on an
HTML page. You have a PHP script that will get the data from the HTML page.
The user presses the submit button from the HTML page, and the PHP form
finds the data and does its thing.
Here's what you do.
You code the action attribute of the form so that it has the name of your
PHP script in it. That passes the data to your PHP script. The field names
from your HTML page can be found in the __post__ array. Check to make sure I
have that array name correct. This array is a dictionary. The field names
are the keys, and the values are the values that got submitted from the HTML
page. If you have groups of check boxes, they'll be in single dimension
arrays. I know you can find an example of this in the PHP documentation from
http://www.nonvisualdevelopment.org. In there, you'll find a little book
called PHP Essentials. I think an example that shows this is in chapter 3 or
chapter 4.
Jim
Jim Homme
Skype: jim.homme
"Every day's a gift."
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of qubit
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 7:26 PM
To: bprogramming; bwebbers
Subject: stuck on minor php problem
Hi all -- I know someone must have done this, but I have searched the php
docs and can't find a way to submit a form from within an intermediate page.
Someone please tell me this is easy...*smile*
I have a simple form with a submit button that I need to process in an
intermediate CGI file written in php. For reference, the intermediate file
is called nittygritty.php.
It is quite simple -- all I want is to be able to print and email some
things and then automatically submit the requisit form to paypal.
I don't want to present the form to the user as he/she has already entered
the data on a previous page. It is going to be invisible to the user.
The form in nittygritty.php has a form action equal to the paypal page --
that's fine. I also have a bunch of hidden form fields giving relevant
parameters to paypal. I also have the results of the previous page that I
put into the form. Then I have a submit button.
Now I want that form to be submitted to paypal. I can't seem to do it -- do
I have to present the page to the user to press the button again? or is
there a way to send the http header and the parameters to paypal?
I've been hacking this site -- not this particular problem, but the site as
a whole -- since Sunday and I want it to be done tonight. Could someone
knowledgeable of php please enlighten me on form submission.
I did a search on php.net for submit, send, action and a bunch of other
strings. I found some interesting functions, but none what I wanted.
Thanks in advance for any info!
--le
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