Form Variables and Verisign

[stinkypup]

I've read some of the other postings about Verisign and Form Variables and I still don't know how to get this to work.

I have a conference registration form that captures a lot of detailed information (e.g., meals, tours, workshops, etc.).

Here's how things are set up:

a. The user completes a form and clicks submit.

b. The user goes to a "confirmation page" that repeats the info they just filled out and totals the amount.

c. Here's where I'm stuck.. the user clicks Submit and only specific form data (name, email, total....) is sent to Verisgn.

d. The user agrees to the Verisgn authorization statement and clicks Sumbit.

All I want is to be able to email the conference administrator all of the form information. Can I do this without sessions or storing the info in a database? I really don't want to have to create a db.

TIA
stinkypup

[devinemke]

what I usually do is handle all the email/database stuff first before sending the data on to Verisign

[stinkypup]

Yeah, but how then do you really confirm the user didn't get declined. If I send an email before credit card approval, then the information may not be valid.

I don't really want to resort to using a db.

So, what are the steps you have set up?

[devinemke]

i know that with some verisign services you can configure them to post the data back to a user defined URL so you could have your own script process the data afterward. this would be something in your verisign user control panel

[gordonisgod]

Ok. I've figured it out and figured I'll post the info for other people. It's actually quite simple. Verisign allows you to include the fields USER1 through USER10.

You can use these fields to pass variables to Verisign (verisign doesn't use the variables). You can then set verisign to POST, SILENT POST, and FORCED SILENT POST to return the variables to a cgi script. For example, after the user makes a purchase use the following script to email the variables to yourself:

<?php

##Get form variables for non-array items
$name = $POST['NAME'];
$amount = $POST['AMOUNT'];
$address = $POST['ADDRESS'];
$city = $POST['CITY'];
$state = $POST['STATE'];
$zip = $POST['ZIP'];
$phone = $POST['PHONE'];
$email = $POST['EMAIL'];

$user1 = $POST['USER1'];
$user2 = $POST['USER2'];
$user3 = $POST['USER3'];
$user4 = $POST['USER4'];
$user5 = $POST['USER5'];
$user6 = $POST['USER6'];
$user7 = $POST['USER7'];
$user8 = $POST['USER8'];
$user9 = $POST['USER9'];
$user10 = $POST['USER10'];

$result = $_POST['RESULT'];

if ($result == "0") {
$approvalcode = "This transaction has been approved and the credit card has been charged.";
$shortcode = "Transaction approved.";
}else {
$approvalcode = "This transaction has been declined and the credit card was NOT been charged. You can delete this message.";
$shortcode = "Transaction denied.";
}

$recipient = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Conference Registration: $shortcode ";
$mailheader = "From: $email\n";
$mailheader .= "Reply-To: $email\n\n";
$message = "$approvalcode\n";
$message .= "Registrant's name: $name\n";
$message .= "Address: $address, $city, $state, $zip\n\n";
$message .= "Email: $email, Phone: $phone\n\n";
$message .= "$user1\n\n";
$message .= "Membership: $user2\n\n";
$message .= "Sessions Attending: $user3\n\n";
$message .= "$user4\n\n";
$message .= "$user5\n\n";
$message .= "$user6\n\n";
$message .= "$user7\n\n";
$message .= "$user8\n\n";
$message .= "$user9\n\n";
$message .= "$user10\n\n";

mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $mailheader) or die ("Failure");

?>