How do I get information from an order page to:

ghost2012

How do I get information from and html order form to a Php Form developed that will take the submitted information and transfer it to the confirmation page. Only the information that was selected will be transferred. No hiding information will be allowed. Therefore the information that was selected from the order form will transfer to the confirmation page and it has been verified then the remaining information will be submitted for completion of order. I have and order form already with the php form for processing the order and responding with an email. But my problem is that the order for is very large and the client wants just what is ordered not 0's in the non ordered spaces. This is my delimea and I am a noob. So if anyone can help me please do. 😕

itaym02

Try something on the lines of
foreach($_POST as $fields)
{
//Do validation/ process on this field instead of the var_dump
var_dump($field);
}

This is really a very general direction, there are today ready made libraries that can take this black work away from you. (I use ZF, but I wouldn't recommend this to someone new to programming).

ghost2012

<?php

// Receiving variables
@$pfw_ip= $SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
@$company = addslashes($POST['company']);
@$customerCode = addslashes($POST['customerCode']);
@$address = addslashes($POST['address']);
@$phone = addslashes($POST['phone']);
@$suiteno = addslashes($POST['suiteno']);
@$orderedby = addslashes($POST['orderedby']);
@$city = addslashes($POST['city']);
@$states = addslashes($POST['states']);
@$zipcode = addslashes($POST['zipcode']);
@$item001 = addslashes($POST['item001']);
@$item002 = addslashes($POST['item002']);
@$item003 = addslashes($POST['item003']);
@$item004 = addslashes($POST['item004']);
@$item005 = addslashes($_POST['item005']);

// Validation
//Sending Email to form owner
$pfw_header = "From: $customerCode\n"
. "Reply-To: $customerCode\n";
$pfw_subject = "test subject";
$pfw_email_to = "test@test.com";
$pfw_message = "Visitor's IP: $pfw_ip\n"
. "company: $company "
. "customerCode: $customerCode "
. "orderedby: $orderedby\n"
. "address: $address "
. "suiteno: $suiteno "
. "phone: $phone\n"
. "city: $city "
. "states: $states "
. "zipcode: $zipcode\n"
. "item001: $item001 "
. "item002: $item002 "
. "item003: $item003 "
. "item004: $item004 "
. "item005: $item005 "
@mail($pfw_email_to, $pfw_subject ,$pfw_message ,$pfw_header ) ;

This is a demo for the test code that I'm using. How do I get only the information that is chosing from the initial orderform which is Html to the confirmation page. That would show only what is ordered.

djjjozsi

you should apply a function to add items to your message body

function add_if_not_null($postvar,$title)
{
if(!empty($_POST["$postvar"]))
return ($title.":".   htmlspecialchars($_POST["$postvar"])."\n");
}

/********
and you program can use it:
********/

// Receiving variables
$pfw_message.="Information:\n";
$pfw_message.= "Visitor IP: ".$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . "\n";
$pfw_message.= add_if_not_null("company","company");
$pfw_message.= add_if_not_null("customerCode","customerCode");
..............
.............
..............
$pfw_message. ="Selected Items:\n";
$pfw_message.= add_if_not_null("item001","Item1");
$pfw_message.= add_if_not_null("item002","Item2");
................
mail(.......................);

ghost2012

djjjozsi

I do appreciate that but i'm lost on how to apply it for use.

djjjozsi

ghost2012;10910646 wrote:
djjjozsi

I do appreciate that but i'm lost on how to apply it for use.

So, i was showing you how to build a function to create a string using the $_POST index name.

if you have a $POST variable called $POST["customerCode"], if you wanted to add to a mail message, you need to check if its not null , in that case add to the mail string.

if(!empty($_POST["customerCode"]))
$pfw_message.="Customer Code: " .$_POST["customerCode"];

then you have to use this method to add the other variables such as $_POST['zipcode'] ... ect.

if(!empty($_POST["zipcode"]))
$pfw_message.="zipcode: " .$_POST["zipcode"];

See, this technique takes hours to build a mail message, a shorter is to make a function:

function add_if_not_null($postvar,$title)
{
if(!empty($_POST["$postvar"]))
return ($title.":".   htmlspecialchars($_POST["$postvar"])."\n");
}

i passed two arguments, first will determine the $POST array's name, and the 2th will be the title in the mail message. This checks if that $POST index is not empty , then return from the function with a string (Title: value). htmlspecialchars function will change the harmful scripts into html codes.

How you call this function?

$pfw_message .= add_if_not_null("item001","Item 1");

.= means include the following string values to the variable on the left.

There are simplier ways, but first build simple functions to learn how
these things going.

on www.php.net search for the mentioned functions and operators to read better explanations.
hello, jjozsi.