[Resolved] Value from HTML to PHP

TNchatmonk

I may not have made myself clear the other day but I have added an option to a form in my shopping cart checkout to ask if the customer wants the shipment insured. All I want to do is pass this new field/value to a PHP module which will check the value and intern either populate or not populate the $packageValue field which is sent to UPS.

My problem is, the value in $ship_insured is always false for each of my three options. Yes, No, not entered. I currently have the values set to equate Yes="1", No=" " and not entered=" " but I could use Yes, No and blank or whatever.

Here is my HTML code I added to my cart checkout form:

<tr>
<td class="contentckout"><b>Select Insurance:* Option</b></td>
<td class="contentckout" width="70%"><input type="hidden" style="color:#FFFFFF; background-color:#333333;" name="ship_insured" value="">
<SELECT ID = "ship_insured" style="color:#FFFFFF; background-color:#333333;">
<OPTION VALUE = "">--Select Option--</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE = "1">Yes</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE = "">No</OPTION>
</select>
</td>
</tr>

Here is where I am checking for if set in my PHP which is always false for some reason:

if(isset($_POST['$ship_insured'])){
$packageValue = $cart_subtotal;
}
else{
$packageValue = '';
}

This must be something very simple that I am not doing as I can't find another single post regarding this situation.

Thanks for your help even if it is pointing me to a place in a manual!!

bradgrafelman

Look at your index: '$ship_insured'.

$ship_insured is not the correct string; 'ship_insured' is. Had you used double quotes, i.e. "$ship_insured", PHP would have looked for the variable called ship_insured (which doesn't exist).

To make a long story short: $'s are used to identify variables. Indeces of the $POST, $GET, etc. superglobals are not variables, they are merely strings identifying the HTML elements.

Also, even if the values are NULL (meaning empty, '', etc.), the variable still should be set. I believe you would be better off using [man]empty/man than [man]isset/man in this case, like so:

if(!empty($_POST['ship_insured'])){

TNchatmonk

It now takes the if empty logic and falls through? I guess I need to go back to my HTML and see what I am not doing there. I guess what throws me is this is in the same script as all my other options and things like zip, city etc. get to the PHP module fine.

TNchatmonk

I have attached my HTML checkout form in text format. If someone gets a chance can you see if you can spot why my ship_insured option is never true once I check it in ups_xml_lib.php.

I did have an error earlier in my ups_xml_lib.php but I was led back on the right path by bradgrafelman.

Thanks for any help!

TNchatmonk

Well,

After beating myself up for days now and trying to read everything on the internet to do with PHP, I finally resolved my problem.

In my ups_xml_lib.php module instead of:

if(!empty($_POST['ship_insured'])){

I had to do this:

if(!empty($_GET['ship_insured'])){

After doing this it recognizes my "1" for Yes and "0" for No

Thank I will have a beer or "2"

Thanks to everyone who looked at this!!!