I've been working on a form for a registration page that will accept PayPal, and I've a couple of questions...all of which will probably have obvious answers that I'm missing...

1) I need the submit to do one of two things. If the user selects the "Pay Now" option from a drop-down selection, it needs to act like the standard PayPal button (sending them to the PayPal website so they can make their payment). If they select the "Pay Later" option, it needs to NOT take them to PayPal and instead take them directly to the "Thank You" page.

2) I need the contents of the completed form to be sent to an e-mail address. This one I am pretty sure I can figure out, I'm just irritated with the Submit button right now. :evil:

Here's the code I'm working with:

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
<p><span id="lastname">
<label>Last Name
<input type="text" name="lastname" id="lastname" />
</label>
</span></p>
<p><span id="firstname">
<label>First Name
<input type="text" name="firstname" id="firstname" />
</label>
</span></p>
<p><span id="address">
<label>Street Address
<input type="text" name="address" id="address" />
</label>
</span></p>
<p><span id="city">
<label>City
<input type="text" name="city" id="city" />
</label>
</span></p>
<p><span id="state">
<label>State
<input type="text" name="state" id="state" />
</label>
</span></p>
<p><span id="zip">
<label>Zip Code
<input type="text" name="zip" id="zip" />
</label>
</span></p>
<p><span id="phone">
<label>Phone Number
<input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" />
</label>
</span></p>
<p>
<label>E-Mail Address
<input name="email" type="text" id="email" />
</label>
</p>
<p>
<label>Web Site
<input type="text" name="website" id="website" />
</label>
</p>
<p><span id="team">
<label>Prefered Team
<select name="team" id="team">
<option selected="selected">USA Special Forces</option>
<option>Columbian Government</option>
<option>Columbian Drug Cartel</option>
<option>I just want to shoot someone!</option>
</select>
</label>
</span></p>
<p><span id="payment">
<label>Payment Options
<select name="payment" id="payment">
<option selected="selected">Pay now via Paypal - $25.00</option>
<option>Pay at the field - $35.00</option>
</select>
</label>
</span></p>
<p>
<label>Comments, Special Equipment, or Special Needs<br />
<br />
<textarea name="comments" id="comments" cols="70" rows="5"></textarea>
</label>
</p>
<p><input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick" />
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="webassist.dreamweaver.4_5_0" />
[removed paypal account identifying parameters. Lets NOT make it easy for the crackers and scammers]
<input type="image" name="submit" src="http://www.wolfcreekpaintball.com/images/button_submit.gif" border="0" alt="Make payments with PayPal, it's fast, free, and secure!" />
</p>
</form>

And the server side code would be ?

sorry...I knew I was forgetting something

i'm using js...too little sleep...i forgot that there needs to be some code to tell the form what to do

set the form action attribute to go to paypal and add two radio buttons to the form called "frm_action"

<input type="radio" name="frm_action" value="0" checked="checked" onclick="frmAction(0)">Pay Now
<input type="radio" name="frm_action" value="1" onclick="frmAction(1)">Pay Later

<script type="text/javascript">
function frmAction(which) {
     if (which == 1) {
          document.formname.action = "URL_to_ServerSide_Script.ext"
      } else {
          document.formname.action = "URL_to_PayPal"
       }
}
</script>

on the "thank you page" is where you send the email.

Catch the return value from PayPal and if it exists then the transaction is complete or denied, if it ain't there and the post key frmaction = 1 then it's a pay later.

not tested the above code but it looks ok.

thanks...I'll try that

ok...this is going to sound like another stupid question, I'm sure...

how would I make this work with php? I've never used php before and the form builder I decided to use (because I'm in a bit of a time crunch) built the form in php...

thanks for your patience

edit: I've attached a zip file of the php and htm files that I'm using. The form ends up sending a confirmation e-mail to the user, and e-mail to the business, and then sends the user to a thank you page. I've never worked with PHP before, so I have no idea where to put whatever it is I need to put to make it send the user to PayPal if they select the appropriate radio button.