用于IPN的PHP自定义变量

Question

Ok so I'm sure a lot of people have already asked this, yet I have not seen any real clear answers. I need to capture a variable that I already have a value for....here is my example:

<?php

$data_p = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `dreams`") or die(mysql_error());

while($info = mysql_fetch_array( $data_p )) {
    <table>
        <tr>
            <td><?php echo $info['first']; ?> <?php echo $info['last']; ?></td>
            <td><?php echo $info['city']; ?> <?php echo $info['state']; ?></td>
            <td><?php echo $info['dream']; ?></td>
            <td>$<?php echo $info['donation_goal']; ?></td>
            <td>
                <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
                <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
                <input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="2HGLK2WGELUNG">
****************<input type="hidden" name="dream_id" value="<?php echo $info['dream_id']; ?>">
                <input type="image" src="images/donatebutton.png" id="donate" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
                <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
                </form>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table
}

This shows as this:

http://www.dreamsurreal.com/images/example.jpg

The line with all of the ** in it is where I'm having trouble.

I created the button in paypal.com but I added the * line in myself.

I need this variable to be passed to paypal so that I when my database is updated through ipn.php. Here is the MYSQL update area for ipn.php:

// add this order to a table of completed orders
    $payer_email = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['payer_email']);
    $mc_gross = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['mc_gross']);
    $dream_id = $_POST['dream_id'];
    $sql = "INSERT INTO orders VALUES 
            (NULL, '$txn_id', '$payer_email', '$mc_gross', '$dream_id')";

But for some reason even though I added the $dream_id = $_POST['dream_id'] and also added $dream_id into the INSERT part of the mysql insert, it doesn't insert the actual variable, it just makes it 0.

I hope I made this clear enough for everyone, could I please get a bit of help on how to make this work properly.

Answer 1

Got it working everyone....ok so here is how its done:

Here is our button script without the added variable....

    <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
    <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
    <input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="2HGLK2WGELUNG">
    <input type="image" src="images/donatebutton.png" id="donate" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
    <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
    </form>

Add this line into our form....

<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="<?php echo $MY_VARIABLE; ?>">

Replace the $MY_VARIABLE with your own variable.

Our new code for our button will look like

    <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
    <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
    <input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="2HGLK2WGELUNG">
    <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="<?php echo $MY_VARIABLE; ?>">
    <input type="image" src="images/donatebutton.png" id="donate" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
    <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
    </form>

After that, in your ipn.php change this area

// add this order to a table of completed orders
    $payer_email = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['payer_email']);
    $mc_gross = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['mc_gross']);
    $sql = "INSERT INTO orders VALUES 
            (NULL, '$txn_id', '$payer_email', '$mc_gross')";

Add these into it (I'm using an integer so I'm just making sure its the right type)

$MY_VARIABLE = (int)$_POST['item_number'];

and

$sql = "INSERT INTO orders VALUES 
    (NULL, '$txn_id', '$payer_email', '$mc_gross', '$MY_VARIABLE')";

After all of our fixes, this entire area should look like this:

    // add this order to a table of completed orders
    $payer_email = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['payer_email']);
    $mc_gross = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['mc_gross']);
    $dream_id = (int)$_POST['item_number'];
    $sql = "INSERT INTO orders VALUES 
            (NULL, '$txn_id', '$payer_email', '$mc_gross', '$dream_id')";

I hope this all helps, thank you for your time.