Concatenate text fields

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This simple JavaScript (JS) plugin takes the contents of text fields and concatenates them into various fields of PayPal data depending on the last two characters of the name of the text field.

We start with the output of the PayPal button factory and make a few changes. Then the JS processes the FORM and adjusts the fields. <view source> to see what was done on this page.

Copy the JS from this example and paste it into your page within the <head> section, like is done on this page. Only one copy of the JS is needed for any page.
If you want a view-cart button somewhere on the page you must copy the view FORM from my page and insert it into your page right after the <body... statement like I have done here. You will need to change the business value, or course. More info
Go into every FORM that can place an order and add these things...
- A new named element called basedes to hold the base description of this item.
- If you have any pre-filled values for any of the option fields you must create base entries for them as well (baseon0, baseos0, baseon1 and baseos1.
- You must include option field entries to have a place to put the data, if you put any into an option field (on0, os0, on1 and os1.)
- An onsubmit event handler in the FORM element. Be sure to test its truth, as is done here.
- Text fields (with flaged names, perhaps) so the user can input his values. The flag is the last two characters of the name.
```
  1a = 1st option field name area (64 chars).
  1b = 1st option field data area (200 chars).
  2a = 2nd option field name area (64 chars).
  2b = 2nd option field data area (200 chars).
  .. (Anything else, description area - 128 chars.)
```

Contact me concerning this article at paypalhelper@aol.com. Mention "text concat" in your note.

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