traveling field data over two pages

jaybeast

Hey all,

i'm working on a simple order form for my organic farmer girlfriend and am just about ready to go postal on my monitor....

here's the lowdown:

there is a simple order form that a user would complete. it contains their personal data and the items they want to order. we would like them to be able to click a button to preview the data before sending and then click again to submit their order.

the order page is a simple html form calling a php doc. on that php doc is the passed data and now i want them to be able to send the data via email.

my problem is that the data is not getting passed on in the email.

here's the link to the order form: www.andersonalmonds.com/beta/order-cart.htm

any ideas would be greatly appreciated?

LordShryku

On get-info.php, under the form tag, you should create hidden input fields to store the data.

jaybeast

thanks so much for responding to my post!

a coffee enema couldn't help it pass any better!

-jay

tpiele

I have a similar question. I have a listbox where a user selets what size tey wanna buy, say small, medium or large. My form posts that onto the next page just fine, here's the cde:

<form name="size" method="post" action="addtocart.php">
    <select name=\"listbox\">\n"; 
       foreach ($itemlist2 as $selectitem) { 
       echo 
       "<option value=\"$selectitem\">$selectitem</option>\n"; 
      } 
       echo "</select>"; 
      } 

   <input type=submit value='Add To Cart >'>
</form>

and then on the addtocart page:

$userchoice=$_POST['listbox'];

but addtocart.php is not an html page, it is a quick script that shoves all the product data into a table called cart on the database, and then loads the next page called cart.php which displays the contents of the shopping cart.

How do I forward value of $userchoice on to the cart.php page? Addtocart.php does not have any submit buttons or input devices since it is never 'seen' by the user... can I somehow do a form on addtocart.php with a hidden field only and somehow pass that onward?

LordShryku

Your best bet would be either to create a session and put the variable in there or pass it through the URL. You could pass something like the unique DB field through the URL if you don't feel like passing the actual choice, then do a DB lookup on cart.php to get the value.