Forms and php

[eddy666]

Alright, here is my problem.

 

I have a form to buy some products. I enter quantity only for all the items I want to buy. I pass those values off to a php file as qty1, qty2, qty3, qty4. Well call that file process.php

 

In process.php, the client has to enter his details. Example, name, phone number, email. Now I get stuck.

 

I want to pass everything including the value of qty1-2-3-4 to email.php. I can get the form values of process.php which are his details. But I can't get the first html file values of qty1-4. Is it possible to pass them over to the 3 file? I was thinking of using hidden fields and assigning the value of the $qty1-4 to them except I don't know how to assign php variable to javascript DOM variables. Can anyone help? Please.

[taquitosensei]

use sessions

at the top of each page that's not an include

put

 
session_start(); 

then just do

$_SESSION['whatever']="whatever"; 

then you can access that from any page that you put the session_start on.

 

 

[eddy666]

Ok, quick question on that.

 

Let's say I use session.

 

I have a field on file 1 called qty1.

 

So in sessions this code...

 

<? php

$_SESSION['whatever']=how do I reference my input field?

?>

 

Or do I do it in file 2 after submitting the form?

 

like this

 

$_SESSION['whatever']= $_POST['qty1']

 

and from file 3, I just can get the value of whatever without needing to submit?

 

Is the syntax and ideology correct?

[dubc07]

check this out

 

http://v3.thewatchmakerproject.com/journal/276/building-a-simple-php-shopping-cart

[eddy666]

Ok, I have something going. If I get stuck, I'll be back again.

 

Thanks for the help

[br0ken]

If process.php receives the quantity values you use the following code to store it in a hidden input field.

 

echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"qty1\" value=\"".number_format($_GET['qty1'], 0, "", "")."\">";

 

Then when you submit the form in process.php, these values are passed to email.php