[datahound]

I am doing a payment gateway and I need to concatenate the month and year from two seperate dropdowns to one variable before submit.

$EXPDATE = $MONTH.$YEAR;

I guess is javascripty but I don't know any?

Or whether a javascript variable if constructed is recognised and passed by the form.

Thanks if you can help.

[d*d]

Can't it be done server side?

[cam]

Aye, that sounds like it should be done server-side.

[datahound]

I don't know how I would do that without a second page where the concatention is done but requires to submit again.

I can work around this I have worked out by taking card details on page one, submit goes to page two to collect the address details and I can concatenate there before final submit to gateway.

Or I can simply do 'View And Confirm Details Are Correct' page. Yes that works.

But if you can briefly explain the method you both mean perhaps you can fill a hole in my knowledge if not too much typing involved?

[datahound]

Durrrr! I have to do that anyway to validate the input for req'd fields.

[.sleep]

Assuming you are writing this stuff to a database, are you writing it after each page or just one final one at the end?

edit: I think you figured it out. My question was leading there anyway.