[Resolved] passing result data including drop down data

[PJNEW]

I am just trying to get the principal framework of this into my head. I have produced results of a product search on a mysql database. These results include (if appropriate) a drop down to choose some options against that particular product. THis all works. So I can have say 4 results...2 with a drop down of options, 2 without.

What I cannot get my head around is how to pass all this information (probably as a form?) to the final page. I can understand how one drop down could be converted to a variable and then passed, but I just cannot get my head around how to distinguish between the various selections. I take it that a form would be the most appropriate way to pas the results of a product search to a checkout. (In this case it is just a request to quote, so not a real checkout...just a 'quote basket'), but similar in principal. Sorry to drag on, but you can see, I just need to bounce the principal off something other than my own thick brain :-) Any help appreciated

[feldon23]

<form action="{$php_self}" method="post">
<select name="age">
<option value="[select one]" selected>
<option value="18-24">
<option value="25-35">
<option value="35-45">
<option value="45-64">
<option value="65+">
</select>
.
.
.
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

if ($_POST['submit']) {
echo $_POST['age'];
}

[tpiele]

I can get this to work and it passes the variable to another page with the action="addtocart.php" code. But addtocart.php is not an html page, just a script that takes the session info and puts it in a db table.

How can I somehow echo the drop down data into this page and then onto the next...?

Right now the user selects a choice from a drop down lstbox on product.php and it posts to addtocart.php. Addtocart.php has the code:

$userchoice = $_POST['listbox'];

and if I echo $userchoice it shows the righ choice.

Now, since this isnt an html page, and I cannot do a form here, how do I pass it on to the next page, cart.php?

[PJNEW]

Thanks Feldon23, that information worked and was very useful, and has allowed me to move on.

tpiele, if you have entered this information into a database, couldn't you just query the database on the next page and then echo the result?

[tpiele]

yup, that's what I ended up doing 🙂

Here is another puzzler. Each option in the select box has a different price right? 2.7oz toothpaste is $2.99 and 5.4oz is $4.99 or whatever. This data is stored in the database, there is a list of prices comma dilimeted and a list of sizes. I use

itemlist explode(",",$SizeOptionSizes);

to draw out the different sizes and then a foreach to populate the select box. But how should I go about assigning the correct price to the right item size? Can I do it here on the form or should I check it on the addtocart.php page? The problem I run into is that it is all dynamic and pulled from the database and there are hundreds of different sizes and prices (usually 3 for each item but not always the same 3 of course) so I cannot just say

if (itemlist == 2.3oz {
   $price = $2.99
else
    error("choose a size")
;
}

because it is not always $2.99 etc.

any ideas?