is this a command

[sean_paul]

coming from checkout.php where a customer fills in their address etc.

the action of the form sends the customer information to "purchase.php"

and in purchase.php there is this line of code

"// if filled out
if($cart&&$name&&$address&&$city&&$zip&&$country)
{
// able to insert into database
if( insert_order($HTTP_POST_VARS)!=false )"

is the if statement a command to insert details into database? Or is the MySQL command somewhere else?

Thanks in advance

[cgraz]

Which if statement are you referring to? neither will insert data into a mysql database. To insert into a mysql database, you'd have to use INSERT() For Example:

$query = mysql_query("INSERT INTO your_table (fname, lname, phone) VALUES ('John', 'Doe', '555-7654')");

Cgraz

[sean_paul]

What is

"if( insert_order($HTTP_POST_VARS)!=false )"

what is $HTTP_POST_VARS

is this if statement checking to see if the variable from the form can be written to the database?

Thanks again

[cgraz]

insert_order is probably a function the author wrote as it is not in the php manual (php.net), so I couldn't tell you what it's supposed to do.

$HTTP_POST_VARS is a method used by older versions of PHP to grab the variables that were sent through a form using a method of post. Newer versions of php use $_POST

Cgraz