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[SolTek]

Thanks for the advice Jim, but when a button is clicked I need only one 
of the hidden "item" and one of the hidden "amount" values to be passed 
to the cart.

Thanks,
Steve

On Saturday, July 20, 2002, at 11:53 AM, Jim Hendricks wrote:

> As far as I know, the only way to get data outside a form to be sent 
> with
> the request
> would be the use of JS either to build it as part of the querystring, 
> or to
> finagle some
> form elements.
>
> But, based on what you have below, I don't see that you need all those
> forms, why not
> just one form.  If it's a matter of determining which submit button the 
> user
> chose, then
> give each submit button a different value, the selected button's value 
> would
> be associated
> with the button field item available on the server side which would 
> then let
> you know
> which of your hidden fields to use.  For example:
>
> <p>STEP 1. ENTER YOUR DOMAIN NAME:
> <form action="https://domain.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
> <input type="hidden" name="OptionName" value="Domain">
> <input type="text" name="OptionValue" size="25"></p>
>
>  <p>STEP 2. CHOOSE A PLAN:</p>
> <p>PLAN A 3 MONTHS
> <input type="hidden" name="item1" value="PA03">
> <input type="hidden" name="amount1" value="74.85">
> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit1"></p>
>
> <p>PLAN A 6 MONTHS
> <input type="hidden" name="item2" value="PA06">
> <input type="hidden" name="amount2" value="137.70">
> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit2"></p>
>
> <p>PLAN A 12 MONTHS
> <input type="hidden" name="item3" value="PA12">
> <input type="hidden" name="amount3" value="239.40">
> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit3"></p>
> </form>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "SolTek" <soltek at mac.com>
> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at nyphp.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 8:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Can this be done with PHP or JavaScript? Is it
> even possible?
>
>
>> Sorry to stir up such a debate earlier, but I still do need help. :-)
>> Maybe someone can assist me. I'm actually just learning PHP and was
>> hoping to concentrate on that before learning anything else. But it
>> seems I may not have a choice.
>>
>> I'm thinking this can only be done with JavaScript, but maybe I'm 
>> wrong.
>>
>> Is there a way I can get form values that are on the same html page 
>> as a
>> form but outside of the form tags, and then pass them along with the
>> rest of a forms values when a submit button of a form is clicked? The
>> page must contain multiple forms. Each form will contain different
>> hidden values and a submit button.  The form values outside of the form
>> tags will be associated with every form on the page which is why they
>> must also be sent along with the rest of the particular form's hidden
>> values.  To help illustrate this I've included and commented the HTML
>> code I'm using below.
>>
>> Many thanks to anyone who could help out!
>> - Steve
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