Can't get price to show up in checkout page.

Question

On my website's checkout page, I have the cost calculated by
charging customers per word at:
http://www.grammarperfection.com/cost.html.
After they get their estimate and click "Quick Checkout," the
number of words does not transfer to the next checkout page:
http://www.grammarperfection.com/checkout.php?serv=1&words=120.
Note, at the end of this url is 120, which shows that the word
count feature is getting sent to this page, but that number (or
whatever the word count currently is) does not transfer to the
"Number of Words" box.
Lastly, the info also will not populate on the final page:
http://www.grammarperfection.com/confirmorder.php
Please let me know what I am doing wrong.

Answer 1

Hello,
The reason the number of words is in the URL is because there
is JavaScript
in the page code that causes that to happen.
function goToCheckout(serviceOption){
var numWords = document.quickcalculator.txtWordCount.value;
var checkoutUrl = "/checkout.php?";
window.location.href = checkoutUrl + "serv=" + serviceOption
+
"&words=" + numWords;
This JavaScript is client side code. That means that it is in
the page code
downloaded from the server and your browser makes it work.
More to the point, you can see it in the page code the server
downloads so
it's included when you view source and copy.
PHP is a server side language.
There is PHP code in the checkout page that the owner
uploaded to the
server.
That code is what takes the URL parameter (the 173 in your
example) and uses
it.
The trouble is, all of that happens on the server and not the
page in your
browser as with the Javascript.
When the server downloads the checkout page to your browser,
it doesn't
download the PHP code in it. Just the HTML.
You are not seeing the same code the owner has in his copy of
checkout.php.
On the site you got the code from, it works like this:
When you click the "Quick Checkout" button, it triggers the
Javascript in
the page to insert the 173 into the URL and then sends a
command to the
server to download the checkout page to your browser.
However, before the server downloads the checkout page for
you to see, the
PHP code in that page tells the server to do something.
It tells it to add the 173 to the HTML in the checkout page,
and then it
downloads the page to your browser without any of the PHP
code.
In other words, the page you copied is very different than
the owner's page
on the server.
You can't get the page with the PHP in it unless you ask the
owner to send
you a copy.
You'll need to insert your own PHP into the checkout page you
made that will
tell the server to grab the 173 from the URL and insert it
into the HTML
before sending the page to the browser for your visitors to
see.
Take care,
Tim
"SeanWoods" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> The code came from
http://www.proofmydoc.com/proofmydoc.php.
So far the
> only
> things I have changed are to replace my own urls in the
code to make the
> pages
> change to my own when clicking "proceed with order."
Once I get the basic
> code
> working properly, I will change the look and feel of the
page to match my
> own
> page.
>
> Here is my website with the code inputted
>
http://www.grammarperfection.com/checkout.php
>
> Note: One part of the code is working properly which put
the number of
> words
> into the url. On the previous page,
>
http://www.grammarperfection.com/cost.html,
if I put in a document that is
> 173
> words long and click "quick checkout," it puts 173 in
the url
> (
http://www.grammarperfection.com/checkout.php?serv=1&words=173)
but not
> on the
> page where I need it.
>