[RESOLVED] Passing vars to 3 pages

shifty18

I have a form where users enter their infomaiton. I then have a second page where users entre differnt infomation, i then have a page which creats a HTML script to make a paypal button

My question is that how do i parse varbiles of the first page, though the second page and on to the third. I manged to pass varbiles from page 2 > 3 by doing

$_POST['FirstName']; << Var from page1
$_POST['Amount']; << var form page2

AND

<input type='hidden' name='item_name' value='<?php echo $_POST['FirstName'] ?>'>

But i tried to include the varibles from page one and it didnt work, so in page two i added

<?php  

$_POST['FirstName']; << vars from page 1 
$_POST['Surname'];
?>

to the top of page thinking it would just pass them form the second and the third could act on them but it doesnt as no data is added

Any one know how to help
Thanks

thorpe

because you changed the name of the hidden form field to 'item_name'. this;

should be

shifty18

no that section of HTML is in page 3 is and the input field in which my data is added from the varible $_Post['FirstName']

That is not a factor and i know it works due to data from page 2 >> 3 works but i cant get data from page 1 to page 3

If i look at the source of the page 3 when i go though page 1 >> 3 i can see that the value o enter for Amount is there, but the FirstName value isnt there and this is the var form page 1 where amount is from page 2

thorpe

im getting a little lost here, so here is an example. page1 asks for a firstname which is then sent to page2. page2 asks for a last name and then sends both first and last names to page3.

page1.php

echo '<form action="page2.php" method="post">';
echo '<input type="text" name="firstname">firstname?';
echo '<input type="submit">';
echo '</form>';

page2.php

$firstname = $_POST['firstname'];
echo '<form action="page3.php" method="post">';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="firstname" value="'.$firstname.'">';
echo '<input type="text" name="lastname">lastname?';
echo '<input type="submit">';
echo '</form>';

page3.php

echo $_POST['firstname'].' '.$_POST['lastname'];

shifty18

ok i guess it was kind of confusing, its kind of like that but a bit more complicated

Page 1:
A form colleciton infomaiton about the user, all varibes are enterd in to a database, but 1 varible FirstName needs to goto page 3 this is firstname for my testing purposes

Page2:
a form collection infomaiton about the server. 1 varible is sent to page 3 this is surname for my testing purposes

Page3:
a script to create a button which creates an invoice in paypal for there order. The HTML script is already created but with 2 varibles missing, this is what i am collecting. Here is it

<?php
$_POST['FirstName'];
$_POST['Surname'];
?>
<form action='https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr' method='post'>
<input type='image' src='https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but20.gif' border='0' name='submit' alt='Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!'>
<input type='hidden' name='cmd' value='_xclick-subscriptions'>
<input type='hidden' name='business' value='shikane@blueyonder.co.uk'>
<input type='hidden' name='item_name' value='<?php echo $_POST['FirstName'] ?>'> //this is the var from page 1
<input type='hidden' name='no_shipping' value='1'>
<input type='hidden' name='no_note' value='1'>
<input type='hidden' name='currency_code' value='GBP'>
<input type='hidden' name='a3' value='<?php echo $_POST['Surname'] ?>'> //This is the var from page2
<input type='hidden' name='p3' value='1'>
<input type='hidden' name='t3' value='M'>
<input type='hidden' name='src' value='1'>
<input type='hidden' name='sra' value='1'>
</form>

Thanks

shifty18

well i have added echo $_POST['FirstName'];

to page 2 and it echoed the varible corectly, so the data is just not going from page 2 to page 3..i am just wondering if maybe i should store this in a session or tempory cookie and recalling the data in page 3 from either of those

shifty18

no one got any advice?