Question

I have a Zend view in PHP with a form:

<form action="https://example.com/checkout/" name="info" method="post"> 
    <div id="payment">
        <div id="paypal>
            <?php $this->is_paypal_payment = true; ?>
        </div>
        <div id="credit_card>
            <?php $this->is_paypal_payment = false; ?>
        </div>
    </div>
</form>

When a user clicks the submit button, how can I set the instance variable in the Controller?

This is what I tried which didn’t work.

Controller:

$this->view->payment_option_paypal = false;  // initialized value

$payment_method_option = $this->_getParam('payment_option_paypal', null);
if (!is_null($payment_method_option)) {
   if ($payment_method_option == 'paypal') {
       $this->_is_paypal = true;
   }
}

View:

<div id="paypal" style="display: none;">
    <?php $this->payment_option_paypal = "paypal"; ?>
    <img src="paypal.gif" style="margin-right:20px;">
</div>

After clicking submit, the _getParam() function doesn’t capture the string “paypal” that the view set for instance variable in Controller $this->payment_option_paypal

Any ideas what’s wrong and how to go about this?

Answer 1

in you phtml page you have to use like this

<div id="paypal" style="display: none;">
    <input type="hidden" name="paypalname" value="<?php echo $this->payment_option_paypal = "paypal"; ?>" id="paypalname"/>
    <img src="paypal.gif" style="margin-right:20px;">
</div>

and the controller

function yourAction()
{
      if ($this->_request->isPost()) 
      {
         $paypalvalue=$this->_getParam('paypalname');
      }
}

I hope it helps you and if you have any problem in my answer then let me know.