newbie needs H E L P

[Anon]

I've got a problem and I hope you can give me a hand with this. I need to do something in phph.You have a form where someone puts his
name, his email, his address etc...the usual fields and then in another
field you put the colour you want the product to be. This is the relatively
easy part. Ok now we have the prices

item 1 2-3 4-5 6-10 11-20 >21
price per unit 39 36 34 32 29 27

so if you order several items of the same type you get a discount for every
item. Ok so the user simply puts in a field the number of items he or she
would like ok? But he should also know how much money that means. So how do
you do that? Basically on pressing "Send" this order is sent to a certain
email address. SO it's not something fancy. Can you give me a hand? ..I got to finish it in a couple of days and I don't have time
to learn exactly how to do it...pleeeeeeeeeease 🙂

[majik-sheff]

This isn't the best way to do it for maintainability reasons, but in a pinch it's probably the quickest:

switch ($quantity) {
case 1:
unitPrice = 39;
break;
case 2:
unitPrice = 36;
break;
case 3:
unitPrice = 36;
break;
case 4:
unitPrice = 34;
break;
}

and so on...

[majik-sheff]

Another approach would be:

$priceList = array(1 => '39', '36', '36', '34', '34', '32', '32', '32', '32', '32', '29', '29', '29', '29', '29', '29', '29', '29', '29', '29', '27');

if ($quantity >= 21) {
$unitPrice = $priceList[21];
} else {
$unitPrice = $priceList[$quantity];
}

Almost as bad for maintainability, but less coding to do...

[Anon]

you don't understand I am a total newbie!!! the only thing I did in php was a contact form! but this guy wants this order page in php and wants it urgently! oh what do I do 🙁(