Editing Script Via Text Field

[Scotty1207]

Hi,

I'm currently I have a script which once a user pays via paypal the name which they put in the box will be used in the script. Below is part of the script:

[syntax=php] $playername = "thenameoftheplayer";[/syntax]

So a user will come to a page it will have a text field and a button and they will type their name into the text field and click pay now. Then PayPal's IPN verifies it and then the script is called up. But I don't know how to make it so that the name which they type in a form text field will be used instead of "thenameoftheplayer" for just that one time.

[jacek]

Editing the script itself is a pretty risky strategy, you would be better of using a separate file or database to store the name.

For the file method it's pretty simple

To load the name you can do

[syntax=php]$playername = file_get_contents('last_payment.dat');[/syntax]
and to save it

[syntax=php]file_put_contents('last_payment.dat', 'thenameoftheplayer');[/syntax]
Make sense ?

[Scotty1207]

So how would I impliment this into a form, my form code is below

Form:
[syntax=text]<form class="well" form action="Scripts/IronDonator" method="post">
<label>Minecraft Player Name</label>
<input type="text" name="playername" class="span3" placeholder="Type something…">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-info">Buy Now!</button>
</form>[/syntax]

And I take it the script would look like:
[syntax=php]<?php
$HOST = "123.456.7.891"; //the ip of the bukkit server
$password = "YourPasswordHere.";
$playername = file_get_contents('last_payment.dat');

//Can't touch this:
$sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)
or die("error: could not create socket\n");
$succ = socket_connect($sock, $HOST, 4445)
or die("error: could not connect to host\n");

//Authentification
socket_write($sock, $command = md5($password)."<Password>", strlen($command) + 1)
or die("error: failed to write to socket\n");

//Begin custom code here.
socket_write($sock, $command = "/Command/ExecuteConsoleCommand:changegroupcommand $playername Donor;", strlen($command) + 1)
or die("error: failed to write to socket\n");

socket_write($sock, $command = "/Command/ExecuteConsoleCommand:givekitcommand $playername Donor;", strlen($command) + 1)
or die("error: failed to write to socket\n");

socket_write($sock, $command = "/Command/ExecuteConsoleCommand:givemoneycommand $playername 1000;", strlen($command) + 1)
or die("error: failed to write to socket\n");
?>[/syntax]

Also would this work so user1 came used the form with the username user1 and then user2 came and used it with user2, would it just activate the script accordinly?

[jacek]

There is a field you can send to paypal which it will just send right back to your IPN script unmodified, I think it's "other" or somethign like that. Is that what you are trying to do ?

So in your form

[syntax=xhtml]<input type="hidden" name="other" value="<player_name>" />[/syntax]
then in your IP script you can use

[syntax=php]$_POST['other'];[/syntax]
which will have this value.

You may need to check the name of the field, I'm 70% sure it's "other"