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Jose F. Garcia
Jose F. Garcia
22,949 Points
Posted by Jose F. Garcia
Jose F. Garcia
22,949 Points

foreach <option> with paypal

I'm having some issues with paypal using foreach inside the select tag. When I use the paypal option tags with normal html (like the one commented out) everything works well and it adds the item to the cart. In the other hand, when I use the foreach loop to echo out the sizes along with the prices it shows well on the website, but then I get this error from paypal: "PayPal cannot process this transaction because of a problem with the seller's website. Please contact the seller directly to resolve this problem."

Here is how my array looks like:

$products = array();

$products[21101] = array(
    "name" => "Facial Wash",
    "img" => "img/img_detailed/facial-wash.png",
    "sizes" => array("30 ml 5.00 EUR", "200ml 25.00 EUR"),
    "paypal" => "XBSERUGPEXHDW"
);

Here is the paypal form:

<form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
                        <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
                        <input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="<?php echo $product["paypal"]; ?>">
                        <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="<?php echo $product["name"]; ?>">
                        <table>
                            <tr>
                                <td>
                                    <input type="hidden" name="on0" value="Sizes">
                                    <label for="os0">Size</label>
                                </td>

                                <td>
                                    <select name="os0">
                                        <?php foreach($product["sizes"] as $size) { ?>
                                        <option value="<?php echo $size; ?>"><?php echo $size; ?></option>
                                        <?php } ?>
                                    <!--
                                    <option value="200ml">200ml 25.00 EUR</option>
                                    <option value="30ml">30ml </option>
                                    -->
                                    </select> 
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="EUR">
                                    <input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_cart_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
                                </td>   
                            </tr>
                        </table>
                    </form>

Remember, when I remove the php code and use the commented out lines, it works great.

Thanks in advance for any help or input.

1 Answer

John W
John W
21,558 Points
John W
John W
21,558 Points

There are multiple points where things could've gone wrong to generate that error, so I can't tell you exactly where to look. To help you move along, the first step to debug a PHP-generated webpage is to view the page source via your browser's dev tool View Page Source option (safari is command+option+U) and see if the generated HTML is as expected.