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Posted by Joel La Russa
Joel La Russa
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PHP - PayPal - 3 of 3 Challenge Tasks

I don't get it... Can anyone spoon feed me, or point out the correlation video?

Finally, we need the form to submit a unique identifier for the order to the process.php file. We need to be able to access that value in an “order_id” element of the $_POST array like this: $_POST["order_id"]. For this particular order, the order ID should be 7546. We don’t want this value displayed in the browser. What do we need to add to the form? (Hint: We need to add a new HTML element with three attributes.)

Bummer! It looks like you have added a hidden input field correctly, but the name attribute has the wrong value. The information in this element needs to be accessible on the server in the "order_id" element of the $_POST array.

<!--input type="hidden" name="flavor" value="<?php echo $_POST["order_id"]; ?>"-->

3 Answers

Zoe Peng
Zoe Peng
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Zoe Peng
Zoe Peng
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<input type="hidden" name="order_id" value="7546">
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The challenge is asking for the name of the input to be "order_id", which can be accessed later using the $_POST["order_id"], and the value to be equal to "7546".

So the final answer would be: <--input type="hidden" value="7546" name='order_id'-->

Joel La Russa
Joel La Russa
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Joel La Russa
Joel La Russa
4,087 Points

Ohh, for a minute it sounds like, grab the $_POST["order_id"] array sitting on the server, and display it in the input name value...

Thanks for clearing that up, I also was unsure about the name element :S