Hey guys,
Thanks for your response. Thanks also to Ted for posting that tutorial. The
tutorial was good, but I'm still having a hard time figuring out why the
$find variable doesn't have the value specified in the "value" tag. Because
it looks like the value tag in Ted's example works correctly!
For example if I have this option selected:
<option value = "a">I’m a regular customer</option>
The contents of $find on the php page are "I'm a regular customer" and not
the value which should be "a". And that just strikes me as odd!
And if I select option a the output on the web page is the following:
This is what's in the $find variable: I’m a regular customer
We do not know how this customer found us.
I thought I enclosed both the orderform.html and processorder.php files in
the original email. But I guess I must not have attached one of them.
Just so I don't screw that up again, here's the two files inline in the
email! :)
Neither of them is that long, so I hope no one minds.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en-us">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Order Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="processorder.php" method="post">
<table border="0">
<tr bgcolor="#cccccc">
<td width="150">Item</td>
<td width="15">Quantity</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tires</td>
<td align="center"> <input type="text" name="tireqty" size="3"
maxlength="3" /></td>
<tr>
<td>Oil</td>
<td align="center"><input type="text" name="oilqty" size="3"
maxlength="3" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Spark Plugs</td>
<td align="center"><input type="text" name="sparkqty" size="3"
maxlength="3" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit"
value="Submit Order" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>How did you find Bob’s?</td>
<td><select name="find">
<option value = "a">I’m a regular customer</option>
<option value = "b">TV advertising</option>
<option value = "c">Phone directory</option>
<option value = "d">Word of mouth</option>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
And here is the processorder.php script:
tml>
<head>
<title>Bob's Auto Parts - Order Results</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Bob's Auto Parts</h1>
<h2>Order Results</h2>
<?php
// create short variable names
$tireqty = $_POST['tireqty'];
$oilqty = $_POST['oilqty'];
$sparkqty = $_POST['sparkqty'];
$find = $_POST['find'];
echo '<p>Your order is as follows:</p>';
if ($tireqty ==0) {
echo "You did not order anything on the previous page!<br />";
} else {
if ($tireqty > 0)
echo $tireqty." tires<br />";
if ($oilqty > 0)
echo $oilqty." bottles of oil<br />";
if ($sparkqty > 0)
echo $sparkqty." spark plugs<br />";
}
echo "<br /><br />";
$totalqty = 0;
$totalqty = $tireqty + $oilqty + $sparkqty;
echo "Items ordered: " . $totalqty. "<br ./>";
define('TIREPRICE', 100);
define('OILPRICE', 10);
define('SPARKPRICE', 4);
$totalamount = $tireqty * TIREPRICE
+ $oilqty * OILPRICE
+ $sparkqty * SPARKPRICE;
echo "Subtotal: $".number_format($totalamount,2)."<br />";
$taxrate = 0.10;
$totalamount = $totalamount * (1+ $taxrate);
echo "Total Including Tax:
$".number_format($totalamount, 2)."<br />";
/*echo "<p>this is the $_POST[find] variable: " . var_dump($_POST['find'])
. "</p>";
echo "<p>this is the \"find\" variable: " . var_dump($find) . "</p>";*/
echo '<p>This is what\'s in the $find variable: ' . $find . '</p>';
/*if ($find == "I’m a regular customer") {
echo "<p>Regular customer.</p>";
} elseif ($find == "TV advertising") {
echo "<p>Customer referred by TV advert";
} elseif ($find == "Phone directory") {
echo "<p>Customer referred by phone directory</p>";
} elseif ($find == "Word of mouth") {
echo "<p>Customer referred by word of mount</p>";
} else {
echo "<p>We do not know how this customer found us.</p>";
}*/
if ($find == "a") {
echo "<p>Regular customer.</p>";
} elseif ($find == "b") {
echo "<p>Customer referred by TV advert";
} elseif ($find == "c") {
echo "<p>Customer referred by phone directory</p>";
} elseif ($find == "d") {
echo "<p>Customer referred by word of mount</p>";
} else {
echo "<p>We do not know how this customer found us.</p>";
}
?>
</body>
</html>
Furthermore, the script I'm working with is actually hanging out on the
Internet right here:
http://php.lyricgem.com/orderform.html
That's in case you want to see it in action. That's just my hobby dev
instance on the amazon free tier! Notthing there needs to be secure that
isn't already protected by the firewall!
Thanks and Merry Christmas to all!
Tim
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Jim Giner <jim.giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> The code as posted works just fine for me. Must be something you are not
> showing us that is affecting your html. Have you looked at the source code
> in the browser window to see if it appears correctly?
>
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