Use of a Form in a Select Case scenario

JonB · October 20th, 2004, 09:29 AM

Vijay,
      I sincerely appreciate your efforts! And perhaps I'm just having troubles explaining myself. Could you please evaluate the following code and confirm that the syntax is correct. If so, I'll go back and look at other possible causes for this not working.

<%

Select Case (varPaymentType)

    Case "Check"
    Response.Write"<p>You have chosen to pay by check.</p>"

    Case "Cash"
    Response.Write"You have chosen to pay by cash. <br>"

    Case "PayPal"
    Response.Write"You have chosen to pay by credit card. Please click on the link below to pay securely via PayPal."

    <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
         <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
          <input type="hidden" name="business" value="[email protected]">
          <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="<%=Request("EName")%>">
          <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="<%=strTotal%>">
      <p>
      <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!">
      </p>
    </form>

End Select
%>

Many thanks,
Jon

happygv · October 20th, 2004, 10:43 AM

As I said in a couple of posts earlier(Check my SECOND post on this Thread), you are still missing the ASP tags there. That is causing the problem.

Code:

<%
Select Case (varPaymentType)

    Case "Check"
    Response.Write"<p>You have chosen to pay by check.</p>"

    Case "Cash"
    Response.Write"You have chosen to pay by cash. <br>"

    Case "PayPal"
    Response.Write"You have chosen to pay by credit card. Please click on the link below to pay securely via PayPal."
%>
<!-- as the following lines are HTML codes, you have to close the ASP 
tag before this and Open again as shown below, before END SELECT -->
    <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
         <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
          <input type="hidden" name="business" value="[email protected]">
          <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="<%=Request("EName")%>">
          <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="<%=strTotal%>">
      <p>
      <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!">
      </p>
    </form>
<%
End Select
%>

OR the other way of doing this is, using RESPONSE.WRITE.

Code:

<%
Select Case (varPaymentType)

    Case "Check"
    Response.Write"<p>You have chosen to pay by check.</p>"

    Case "Cash"
    Response.Write"You have chosen to pay by cash. <br>"

    Case "PayPal"
    Response.Write"You have chosen to pay by credit card. Please click on the link below to pay securely via PayPal."


    Response.write "<form action='https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr' method='post'>"
        Response.write "<input type='hidden' name='cmd' value='_xclick'>"
        Response.write "<input type='hidden' name='business' value='[email protected]'>"
        Response.write "<input type='hidden' name='item_name' value='<%=Request("EName")%>'>"
        Response.write "<input type='hidden' name='amount' value='<%=strTotal%>'>"
    Response.write "<p>"
    Response.write "<input type='image' src='https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc.gif' border='0' name='submit' alt='Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!'>"
    Response.write "</p>"
    Response.write"</form>"
End Select
%>

Hope that explains.
Cheers!

_________________________
- Vijay G
Strive for Perfection

JonB · October 21st, 2004, 12:33 AM

Vijay - You're a jet!!! It works fine now. Many thanks.

Jon