I know I am doing something silly but I am tired and need help. I have a drop down box and need to pass the selection to the PayPal Shopping Cart page as the name of the item. The relevant code parts are: <select name="prodname" id="prodname"> <option selected>Flash Device</option> <option>Dongle</option> <option>Mouse</option> <option>Headset</option> </select> And later in the Add Cart button code: <?php echo"<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_name\" value=\"".$prodname."\">"; ?> Why is the name not being passed to the PayPal cart? Thank you in advance. Steve -- Steve Hong Kong

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by paypal_pb
[br]Can we have a look at what the HTML looks like?
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Hi Patrick,

This is the code from my test page. I hope you can shed some light on this problem, I've been stalled for 2 days now. Thanks in advance.

&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;PayPalTest3&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;

&lt;body&gt;
&lt;form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" name="form1" target="paypal"&gt;
&lt;table width="600" border="1" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Device:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;select name="prodname" size="1"&gt;
&lt;option value="Flash Device" selected&gt;Flash Device&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="Dongle"&gt;Dongle&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="Mouse"&gt;Mouse&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="Headset"&gt;Headset&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;/select&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Number:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;input name="number" type="text" id="number" size="5" maxlength="5"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="bn" value="wa_dw_3.0.4"&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="business" value="me@mysite.com"&gt;
&lt;?php echo"&lt;input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_name\" value=\"".$prodname."\"&gt;"; ?&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="amount" value="39.95"&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"&gt;
&lt;?php echo"&lt;input type=\"hidden\" name=\"quantity\" value=\"".$number."\"&gt;"; ?&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="0"&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="0"&gt;
&lt;input type="image" name="submit" src="http://images.paypal.com/images/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;

--
Steve
Hong Kong

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by lunchboxpad
[br]If you are trying to get $prodname for the value of item_name, why don't you just create a select menu of item_name, and skip the php?

&lt;select name="item_name" size="1"&gt;
&lt;option value="Flash Device" selected&gt;Flash Device&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="Dongle"&gt;Dongle&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="Mouse"&gt;Mouse&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="Headset"&gt;Headset&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;/select&gt;

Same with the quantity variable. Am I missing something?

Bryan
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Thanks Bryan. I think you're missing the fact that I feel like an idiot today! LOL! Just humour me and tell me how the input lines should look. Like this? Nothing I've tried works so far..

&lt;input type="hidden" name="item_name" value=""&gt;
&lt;input type="hidden" name="quantity" value=""&gt;

Thanks.

--
Steve
Hong Kong