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PHP

Posted by alexismaillard
alexismaillard
2,023 Points

HELP for Extra Credit Challenge : "Build a Simple PHP Application" Stage 6

Hi everyone,

Noob here.

"Users might like to add a shirt to the cart directly from the home page or the Shirts Listing page. Add to the function we just wrote so that it displays a dropdown field and an Add to Cart button."

First try: I tried to concatenate via a variable $addtocart the Paypal HTML code into the function hold in the index.php page:

<?php 
    $total_products = count($products);
    $position = 0;
        $list_view_html = " ";
        $addtocart = '<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 $product[\"paypal\"]; ?>"><input type="submit" value="Add to Cart" name="submit"></form>';
foreach($products as $product_id => $product) { 
            $position = $position + 1;
                if ($total_products - $position < 4) {
$list_view_html = get_list_view_html($product_id,$product) . $list_view_html . $addtocart;
}
}
echo $list_view_html;
?>

Second try: I tried to concatenate the paypal button HTML code of the button into the function hold in the products.php page:

function get_list_view_html($product_id, $product) {
    $output = "";
    $output = $output . "<li>";
    $output = $output . '<a href="shirt.php?id=' . $product_id . '">';
    $output = $output . '<img src="' . $product["img"] . '" alt="' . $product["name"] . '">';
    $output = $output . "<p>View Details</p>";
    $output = $output . "</a>";
    $output = $output . "</ br>";
    $output = $output . '<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="submit" value="Add to Cart" name="submit"></form>';
    $output = $output . "</li>";
    return $output;
}

It displays a Add to cart button but the php code "value="<?php echo $product["paypal"]; ?>" is not working and shown as text.

I guess there is a much simplier alternative!

Thank you!

1 Answer

alexismaillard
alexismaillard
2,023 Points
alexismaillard
alexismaillard
2,023 Points

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