multiple forms one page image submit buttons

[mikerogers]

I have searched and searched and tried many things but can not get this working correctly for some reason. I'm sure I am overlooking something simple. I appreciate your help in advance.

I have an order page with 3 forms on it and each has 3 submit buttons for checkout buttons to paypal, googlecheckout and direct debit/credit card.

On the first form I can check for which image/submit button was clicked and it performs the correct action with no problem at all. However, on the second and third form it isn't working at all for some reason and I have been killing myself trying to figure out why.

Here is the first form:

<FORM name="elp_ear_combo" id="elp_ear_combo" action="checkout.php" method="post">
<input name="PHPSESSID" value="<?php echo session_id(); ?>" type="hidden">
<input name="x_Description" value="ELP/EAR Combo ($99/mth)" type="hidden">
<input name="x_Amount" value="99.90" type="hidden">
<input name="x_Amount_monthly" value="99.90" type="hidden">

 <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">
 <input name="elp_ear_combo_paypal" value="Submit" type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_xpressCheckout.gif" alt="Checkout With Paypal">
	 </span>

 <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">	 
 <input name="elp_ear_combo_googlecheckout" value="Submit" type="image" src="https://www.extremeleadprogram.com/images/google-checkout.png" alt="Checkout Using Google Checkout">	 
 </span>


 <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">	 
 <input name="elp_ear_combo_direct" value="Submit" type="image" src="https://www.extremeleadprogram.com/images/checkout1.gif" alt="Checkout Using Credit/Debit Card Directly With Us">
 </span>

 </form>

Here is the second form:

<FORM name="elp_ear_pro_combo" id="elp_ear_pro_combo" action="checkout.php" method="post">
<input name="PHPSESSID" value="<?php echo session_id(); ?>" type="hidden">
<input name="x_Description" value="ELP/EAR/PRO Combo" type="hidden">
<input name="x_Amount" value="129.95" type="hidden">
<input name="x_Amount_monthly" value="129.95" type="hidden">
	 <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">	 	  

	 <input name="elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal" value="Submit" type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_xpressCheckout.gif" alt="Checkout With Paypal">
	 </span>

 <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">	 
 <input name="elp_ear_pro_combo_googlecheckout" value="Submit" type="image" src="https://www.extremeleadprogram.com/images/google-checkout.png" alt="Checkout Using Google Checkout">	 
 </span>


 <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">	 
 <input name="elp_ear_pro_combo_direct" value="Submit" type="image" src="https://www.extremeleadprogram.com/images/checkout1.gif" alt="Checkout Using Credit/Debit Card Directly With Us">
 </span>

 </form>

And the third:

<FORM name="leads_only" id="leads_only" action="checkout.php" method="post">
<input name="PHPSESSID" value="<?php echo session_id(); ?>" type="hidden">
<input name="x_Description" value="ELP Only" type="hidden">
<input name="x_Amount" value="49.95" type="hidden">
<input name="x_Amount_monthly" value="49.95" type="hidden">


 <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">	 	  
 <input name="leads_only_paypal" value="Submit" type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_xpressCheckout.gif" alt="Checkout With Paypal">
 </span>

 <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">	 
 <input name="leads_only_googlecheckout" value="Submit" type="image" src="https://www.extremeleadprogram.com/images/google-checkout.png" alt="Checkout Using Google Checkout">	 
 </span>


 <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">	 
 <input name="leads_only_direct" value="Submit" type="image" src="https://www.extremeleadprogram.com/images/checkout1.gif" alt="Checkout Using Credit/Debit Card Directly With Us">
 </span>

 </form>

On the checkout.php file I have tried many things to detect say if either of the 3 paypal submit buttons were clicked and the 1st one works great, the 2nd and 3rd do NOT. Here's code I created just to debug why and it seems like it should work:

// Selected paypal
IF ( $_POST['elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal_x'] ) {
echo 'paypal selected 2';
exit();} 

IF ( isset($_POST['leads_only_paypal_x']) ) {
echo 'paypal selected 3';
exit();} 

IF (isset($_POST['elp_ear_combo_paypal_x']) ) {
echo 'paypal selected 1';
exit();} 

//debug
while ($var = each($_POST) ) {
printf ("Key <b>%s</b> has the value of: <b>%s</b><br>", $var['key'], $var['value']);
} 
exit();

But instead of ever getting to 2 or 3 when you click those two it simply gets to the debug code and runs it. Even when it does run it it shows that the correct thing is set, like if I click on the second paypal submit form, it goes past the code and shows all the post forms and will show:

Key PHPSESSID has the value of: cf1tevubmjiiqf8alht0vkp6a4
Key x_Description has the value of: ELP/EAR/PRO Combo
Key x_Amount has the value of: 129.95
Key x_Amount_monthly has the value of: 129.95
Key elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal_x has the value of: 80
Key elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal_y has the value of: 14
Key elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal has the value of: Submit

So if "Key elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal_x has the value of: 80" then it isset and should trigger that if right? But it doesn't.....

Can anyone point me in the right direction, I am GOING CRAZY here, thanks!

[dagon]

print_r($_POST); you will see what the form submits.

[mikerogers]

That is basically exactly what I was doing in my debug code.

Yours outputs:

Array ( [PHPSESSID] => cf1tevubmjiiqf8alht0vkp6a4 [x_Description] => ELP/EAR/PRO Combo [x_Amount] => 129.95 [x_Amount_monthly] => 129.95 [elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal_x] => 75 [elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal_y] => 6 [elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal] => Submit ) 

Which clearly shows elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal_x => 75

So in my code:

IF ( isset($_POST['elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal_x']) ) {
echo 'paypal selected 2';
exit();} 

It should trigger and echo 'paypal selected 2'. However, it does NOT...

[dagon]

yup, odd. try creating the post var yourself, also, remove any other code.

<?php
$_POST['elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal_x']='75';

IF ( $_POST['elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal_x'] ) {
echo 'paypal selected 2';
exit();
}else{
echo 'faiil';

}
?> 

x and y are locations on the image, your better using submit

if($_POST['elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal'] =='Submit'){
//
}

[Weedpacket]

Perhaps if you used submit buttons for your submit buttons? Use styles to decorate them to look like images.

[mikerogers]

yup, odd. try creating the post var yourself, also, remove any other code.

Tried this and this is VERY odd, it still only works on the first form, here's my code:

$_POST['elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal_x']='75';

IF ( isset($_POST['elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal_x']) ) {
echo 'paypal selected 2';
exit();} 

IF ( isset($_POST['leads_only_paypal_x']) ) {
echo 'paypal selected 3';
exit();} 

IF (isset($_POST['elp_ear_combo_paypal_x']) ) {
echo 'paypal selected 1';
exit();} 

This should trigger it everytime no matter what but it doesn't, this doesn't make sense. I went ahead and attached the order.php and the checkout.php as a .zip file to this, maybe with the full two files someone can make sense of this?

If anyone wants to see this in action here's a link to where I am actually doing it ( hope this doesn't violate TOS of the board ):https://www.extremeleadprogram.com/order-test/order.php

x and y are locations on the image, your better using submit
if($_POST['elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal'] =='Submit'){
//
}

This is how I originally started to do it because it made the most sense to me. However I quickly realized that Internet Explorer doesn't set that variable since I am using images ( I guess ). Firefox does so it was working in FF but not IE, so this isn't a good solution.

Perhaps if you used submit buttons for your submit buttons? Use styles to decorate them to look like images.

This would be a last ditch option for me, i'm not great with styles so it would take some time to figure out.... although maybe not as much time as I've already put into this... still I'd rather get it working the right way without doing a workaround, thanks for the option.

[niroshan]

Hi mikerogers,

As for testing purpose I have removed all your PHP code and only kept the HTML part and now its working for me. I think the problem is with your html. Its kind of not a proper way. Please always try to use proper HTML like if you open a tag try to close it in a proper place. In your code tag closing and opening are some what all over the place.

</TR>

<FORM name="elp_ear_combo" id="elp_ear_combo" action="checkout.php" method="post">
<input name="PHPSESSID" value="<?php echo session_id(); ?>" type="hidden">
<input name="x_Description" value="ELP/EAR Combo ($99/mth)" type="hidden">
<input name="x_Amount" value="99.90" type="hidden">
<input name="x_Amount_monthly" value="99.90" type="hidden">

<TR>

As a best practice never put your <form> tag out side <td>. Try to put it inside a <td>.

Im saying this sometimes because of this misplacing of html element cause unexpected results.

I have arrange it in proper way now but you might have to add all your PHP code back. (sorry)

Now when i press paypal button on each form it gave me correct results.

By the way your testing code missing one isset().

IF ( $_POST['elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal_x'] ) {
echo 'paypal selected 2';
exit();} 

here goes the code,

<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
<head>
<title>extreme lead program - secure order form</title>
</head>
<body>
<p align="center"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:1.875em;">extreme lead program - <span style="color:#ff0000">secure order form</span></span> </p>
<div align=center>
<table bordercolor="#111111" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="640" border="1">
  <tr>
    <td> choose your package and options - select your payment / checkout options:<br>
      <br></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td style="border:solid;border-color:#cccccc"><form name="elp_ear_combo" id="elp_ear_combo" action="checkout.php" method="post">
        <input name="phpsessid" value="sessionid" type="hidden">
        <input name="x_description" value="elp/ear combo ($99/mth)" type="hidden">
        <input name="x_amount" value="99.90" type="hidden">
        <input name="x_amount_monthly" value="99.90" type="hidden">
        <p align=left> 
        <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:1.25em;color:blue;">leads & auto responder combo - $99.90 per month</span><br />
          <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:.95em;color:red"> ( best value - customers choice )</span><br>
          <span style="font-size:.9em;"> - includes all of the regular lead groups shown on the faq page<br>
          - includes the regular version of our extreme autoresponder<br>
          - allows 300k outgoing emails per month<br>
          - simple way to email each lead once<br>
          - need more?  upgrade the autoresponder to the pro version ( see below ) </span>
        <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:.95em;">optional features you can add only to this combo:</span><br>
        <br>
        <input type="checkbox" name="ear_pro" value="yes" >
        <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:.95em;">upgrade the auto responder to the pro version (add $50/mth)</span><br>
        <span style="font-size:.9em;"> - this allows you to send 1 million outgoing emails per month instead of 300k<br></span> 
        <span style="font-size:.9em;"> - means you can contact each lead 3-4 times which is key to getting your message across<br></span> <br>
        <input type="checkbox" name="setup_emails" value="yes" >
        <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:.95em;">create initial email campaign ($29.95 one time)</span><br>
        <span style="font-size:.9em;"> - we take a look at your website/landing page and create a professional, hypnotic email message for you.<br>
        - unique to your site and you approve the content we create.</span>
        <p style="text-align: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;"> to order this package select any options you want above and then select your checkout method:<br>
          <br>
          <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">
          <input name="elp_ear_combo_paypal" value="submit" type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_us/i/btn/btn_xpresscheckout.gif" alt="checkout with paypal">
          </span> <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">
          <input name="elp_ear_combo_googlecheckout" value="submit" type="image" src="https://www.extremeleadprogram.com/images/google-checkout.png" alt="checkout using google checkout">
          </span> <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">
          <input name="elp_ear_combo_direct" value="submit" type="image" src="https://www.extremeleadprogram.com/images/checkout1.gif" alt="checkout using credit/debit card directly with us">
          </span> 
          </p>
          </p>
      </form></td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor=#ffffff>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td style="border:solid;border-color:#cccccc"><form name="elp_ear_pro_combo" id="elp_ear_pro_combo" action="checkout.php" method="post">
        <input name="phpsessid" value="sseion id" type="hidden">
        <input name="x_description" value="elp/ear/pro combo" type="hidden">
        <input name="x_amount" value="129.95" type="hidden">
        <input name="x_amount_monthly" value="129.95" type="hidden">
        <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:1.25em;color:blue;"> leads & pro auto responder combo - $129.95 per month</span><br>
        <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:.95em;color:red"> ( special - limited time only offer - expires <?php echo date('f js'); ?> )</span><br>
        <span style="font-size:.9em;"> - includes all of the regular lead groups shown on the faq page<br>
        - includes the pro version of our extreme autoresponder<br>
        - allows 1 million outgoing emails per month<br>
        - includes the "initial email message/campaign creation" above at no additional cost<br>
        - save $29.95 on the email creation and $30 per month<br>
        </span>
        <p style="text-align: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;"> to order this package simply select your checkout method:<br>
          <br>
        </p>
        <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">
        <input name="elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal" value="submit" type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_us/i/btn/btn_xpresscheckout.gif" alt="checkout with paypal">
        </span> <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">
        <input name="elp_ear_pro_combo_googlecheckout" value="submit" type="image" src="https://www.extremeleadprogram.com/images/google-checkout.png" alt="checkout using google checkout">
        </span> <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">
        <input name="elp_ear_pro_combo_direct" value="submit" type="image" src="https://www.extremeleadprogram.com/images/checkout1.gif" alt="checkout using credit/debit card directly with us">
        </span>
      </form></td>
  </tr>
  <tr bgcolor=#ffffff>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td style="border:solid;border-color:#cccccc"><form name="leads_only" id="leads_only" action="checkout.php" method="post">
        <input name="phpsessid" value="session id" type="hidden">
        <input name="x_description" value="elp only" type="hidden">
        <input name="x_amount" value="49.95" type="hidden">
        <input name="x_amount_monthly" value="49.95" type="hidden">
        <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:1.05em;color:blue;"> leads only - $49.95 per month</span><br>
        <span style="font-size:.9em;"> - includes all of the regular lead groups shown on the faq page<br>
        - you must email/contact these leads via your own method(s)<br>
        - we have some suggestions on the "ready to go page" after ordering<br>
        </span>
        <p style="text-align: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;"> to order this package simply select your checkout method:<br>
          <br>
        </p>
        <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">
        <input name="leads_only_paypal" value="submit" type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_us/i/btn/btn_xpresscheckout.gif" alt="checkout with paypal">
        </span> <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">
        <input name="leads_only_googlecheckout" value="submit" type="image" src="https://www.extremeleadprogram.com/images/google-checkout.png" alt="checkout using google checkout">
        </span> <span style="padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;">
        <input name="leads_only_direct" value="submit" type="image" src="https://www.extremeleadprogram.com/images/checkout1.gif" alt="checkout using credit/debit card directly with us">
        </span>
      </form></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>

IF (isset($_POST['elp_ear_combo_paypal_x']) ) {
echo 'paypal selected 1';
exit();}

IF (isset( $_POST['elp_ear_pro_combo_paypal_x']) ) {
echo 'paypal selected 2';
exit();}

IF ( isset($_POST['leads_only_paypal_x']) ) {
echo 'paypal selected 3';
exit();}

Hope this helps,

Best regards,
niroshan