UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming PHP and Server-side Scripting Is it possible to have include the output from two form fields in a single query?

The reson i ask is: Im currently setting up an e-commerce system for a small record production company who wish to sell their mail-order catologue on-line.

Due to the size of the catologue entering all the details into a hosted shopping cart system would take weeks, so instead I signed up to a remotely-hosted system run by Mals e-commerce (dunno if anyones heard of it) which would allow me to simply put all the product details into a query string such as http://www.server.com/script.cfm?accountnum=48338&product=product+name&price=394 and it would perform all the neccessary calculation and card transfers blahblahblah

So my plan is to create a popup order form into which people can enter the product details, similar to the printable mailorder version.

But becuase there is sometimes a product with a similar name it is neccessary to pu them in different categories such as TS (tshirt) CD (cd) and the like, which i want to put in a dropdown menu.

Unfortunatly you can only put two queries in the data sent to the server: Product and Price.

So my question is would it be possible to combine the data from the product name field with the data from the product description field and combine them both into the product query? Or is there a script that could be written to perform the same task?

Sorry if this was a bit long, but any help would be massively appreciated.

not unless you want to do some big coding..

I hate to disagree, but.....

with your form set up like this:
and with the following javascript:

Just a thought

Damn it...

Is there ANYTHING Cal doesnt know?
As it turns out I probably wont need it anyway as the whole situation with the e-commerce thing is getting a tad beyong me........ Thanks anyway, I'll keep hold if that just in case......

Ah - It didnt work the way I wanted anyway.....

My idea was that instead of a form generating the query: ?product=*prod*&price=*price*&cat=*cat*

It would create the query ?product=*prod*+*cat*&price=*price*

Never mind.... Its all acedemic anyway.....

It does work that way, with some side effects.

it actually generates

product=prod-cat&price=price&cat=cat&prod=prod

Just a thought