connecting cart to paypal?

[tshey]

Hi all, I need to pass the data that has been selected in my cart to paypal through hidden form fields. The requirement from paypal are that each item must increment like input type="hidden" name="item_name1" value="item1"
I have my cart

<form name="frmCart" method="get">
		
		<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
			<tr class="green">
				<td width="15%" height="25">
						&nbsp;&nbsp;Qty
				</td>
				<td width="55%" height="25">
						Product
				</td>
				<td width="15%" height="25" >
						Price Each
				</td>
				<td width="15%" height="25" >
					&nbsp;Remove Item </td>
			</tr>
			<?php
			while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
			{
				// Increment the total cost of all items
				$totalCost += ($row["qty"] * $row["itemPrice"]);
				?>
					<tr>
						<td width="15%" height="25">
								<select name="<?php echo $row["itemId"]; ?>" onChange="UpdateQty(this)">
								<?php
								
									for($i = 1; $i <= 20; $i++)
									{
										echo "<option ";
										if($row["qty"] == $i)
										{
											echo " SELECTED ";
										}
										echo ">" . $i . "</option>";
									}
								?>
								</select>
						</td>
						<td width="55%" height="25">
								<?php echo $row["item_name"]; ?>
						</td>
						<td width="20%" height="25">
								$<?php echo number_format($row["itemPrice"], 2, ".", ","); ?>
						</td>
						<td width="10%" height="25">
								<a href="cart.php?action=remove_item&id=<?php echo $row["itemId"]; ?>">Remove</a>
							
						</td>
					</tr>
				<?php
			}
			
			// Display the total
			?>
					<tr>
						<td width="100%" colspan="4">
							<hr />
						</td>
					</tr>
					<tr>
						<td width="70%" colspan="2">
						</td>
						<td width="30%" colspan="2">
								<b>Total: $<?php echo number_format($totalCost, 2, ".", ","); ?></b>
						</td>
					</tr>
		  </table>
		
		</form>

and my paypal form code

<form action="[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr"[/URL] method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart">
<input type="hidden" name="upload" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="info@test.com.au">
<input type="hidden" variable name="item_name_1" value="<?php echo $row["item_name"]; ?>1">
<input type="hidden" name="amount_1" value="<?php echo number_format($row["itemPrice"], 2, ".", ","); ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="AUD">

<input type="image" src="[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but23.gif"[/URL] border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.paypal.com/en_AU/i/scr/pixel.gif"[/URL] width="1" height="1">

</form>
How do I set this up so it is holding my first form values and increment to paypal specifications?

 

[tshey]

It will not hold what is in the cart in the hidden fields, what am I doing wrong I must be missing something?

 

[tshey]

I have added it to the first form and it passes one variable at a time. Is this the best way to submit it as my first form is get and paypal is suppose to be post? how do I make it select the second item and send it through as item_name_2?

 

[tshey]

<form name="frmCart" method="get"  action="[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr">[/URL]
		<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart">
        <input type="hidden" name="upload" value="1">
        <input type="hidden" name="business" value="chris.n@vacuumshop.com.au">
		
		<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
			<tr class="green">
				<td width="15%" height="25">
						&nbsp;&nbsp;Qty
				</td>
				<td width="55%" height="25">
						Product
				</td>
				<td width="15%" height="25" >
						Price Each
				</td>
				<td width="15%" height="25" >
					&nbsp;Remove Item </td>
			</tr>
			<?php
			while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
			{
				// Increment the total cost of all items
				$totalCost += ($row["qty"] * $row["itemPrice"]);
				?>
					<tr>
						<td width="15%" height="25">
								<select name="<?php echo $row["itemId"]; ?>" onChange="UpdateQty(this)">
								<?php
								
									for($i = 1; $i <= 20; $i++)
									{
										echo "<option ";
										if($row["qty"] == $i)
										{
											echo " SELECTED ";
										}
										echo ">" . $i . "</option>";
									}
								?>
								</select>
								<input type="hidden" name="quantity_1" value="<?php echo $row["qty"];?>">
						</td>
						<td width="55%" height="25">
								<?php echo $row["item_name"]; ?>
								<input type="hidden" name="item_name_1" value="<?php echo $row["item_name"]; ?>">
								
						</td>
						<td width="20%" height="25">
								$<?php echo number_format($row["itemPrice"], 2, ".", ","); ?>
								<input type="hidden" name="amount_1" value="<?php echo number_format($row["itemPrice"], 2, ".", ","); ?>">
						</td>
						<td width="10%" height="25">
								<a href="cart.php?action=remove_item&id=<?php echo $row["itemId"]; ?>">Remove</a>
							
						</td>
					</tr>
				<?php
			}
			
			// Display the total
			?>
					<tr>
						<td width="100%" colspan="4">
							<hr />
						</td>
					</tr>
					<tr>
						<td width="70%" colspan="2">
						</td>
						<td width="30%" colspan="2">
								<b>Total: $<?php echo number_format($totalCost, 2, ".", ","); ?></b>
						</td>
					</tr>
		  </table>
		
		
		<table width="100%"  border="0" cellpadding="2">
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>




<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="AUD">

<input type="image" src="[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but23.gif"[/URL] border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.paypal.com/en_AU/i/scr/pixel.gif"[/URL] width="1" height="1">
</form>