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Hi,
I am trying to use some PHP to take a value from a form input, do some math and produce another value that I can then put into an email action for my form. For example, the person selects 3 items from a drop down on the form. This value is now in {data: numberItems}. In the email action, I want to put some PHP code that will read the number of items and then produce a cost which I can then echo in the email HTML.
I tried this:
<?php
$numberItems = $this->data['numberItems'];
if ($numberItems=1){
$totalAmount =100;
}
if ($numberItems=2){
$total Amount =200;
}
?>
Then in my HTML email, I used this to try to show the total amount owed: <html><p>$<?php echo $totalAmount;?></p></html>
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I used the debugger to see what was going on. It doesn't tell me anything. All I see is this at the start of my email: data['numberItems'];
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I tried parantheses instead of brackets. I tried $form-> instead of $this-> (but I know this is not for chronoformsv6). This has to be doable. I just must not be accessing the form data correctly.
Please let me know what you think. Thank you in advance for any tips.
Erik

$this->data("field name", "default if not found");

Also : if($numberItems == 1) {
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Need to get your syntax right.

ALSO ALSO why would you use a series of if statements for that, instead of
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$cost = 100;
echo $this->data("numberItems", 0) * $cost;

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If you want a value that you then can use in another action later on in the same event, you need to RETURN the value. So
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$cost = 100;
return $this->data("numberItems", 0) * $cost;

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Then if your php action is called for example "get_total_cost" then in your email you would put
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<p>${var:get_total_cost}</p>

Thanks for the tips healyhatman. I must have more syntax messed up because I am getting nada. I will keep looking at it.
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Thanks again.
Erik