Output gone wild!

[Mute101]

Hi,

I have written a script to deal with the end of payment process at WorldPay. Amongst other things this script takes a html template and replaces blocks with the order info then prints the template to screen.

My problem lies in the fact that the worldpay server seems to output one line before enacting my script. This seems to change all my formatting (all the text becomes much larger) which means the page doesnt look good at all.

Is there any way I can solve this using code?

#!/usr/local/bin/perl 

use CGI;
use FileHandle;
use Fcntl;

$query = new CGI(STDIN);

print $query->header;

$Stage = $query->param("Stage");

if ($Stage eq "Kits") {
	$templateFile="$ENV{'DOCUMENT_ROOT'}/hp/kitsTpl.html";

	&createTemplate;
	&createTable;
	&createSession;
	&createHidden;
	&replaceTemplate;
	
	print $resultPage;
}

and the createTemplate subroutine looks like this;

sub createTemplate {
	open(INFILE,"<$templateFile");
	@templatePage=<INFILE>;
	close(INFILE);

	#condense page array into one scalar variable
	$resultPage=join("",@templatePage);
}

Not sure if my current code is worth showing but there it is and any help would be appreciated.

Sim

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[arcnon]

you could use in-line css to reduce the size of the font.

The worldpay index page uses style sheets so I would assume it is on yours as well snd why you are getting unexpected results... you could look at the page that is generated and possible use there css stuff.

As far as altering the php template for the space thing if it is from the same template group it is actually a image used for formatting. Anyway there is not much you can do unless you have access to those templates that generate your pages.

 

[Mute101]

Ello,

I am using inline css to produce the look and feel of my site during the worldpay process.

I'm not sure I am explaining myself properly so here are some links showing the results pages (ignore the fact that the images are not present)

My Template

Passed through Worldpay

Why is this happening?


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[PaulTEG]

It isn't in Firefox, unless you've changed something since

--Paul

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[PaulTEG]

It might be an IE specific issue, have a gander at

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=608

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If the link doesn't work

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[arcnon]

sorrry I haven't gotten back to you soon. I had to go out of town.

well if I knew exactly the space you were talking about.
I did notice some poor html

</td>
<!-- End Content Area -->

<!-- Begin Printable Version -->
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="740">

missing some tags in there

the space below
Thankyou for your order. is
<br><br><WPDISPLAY ITEM="Banner"><br><br>

I would try and fix the html stuff first and see where it take you

 

[Mute101]

Hi all,

Thanks for the responses, I did notice there was a LOT of bad html in there which suprises me as it was a template provided by HP!

I have fixed the code and still the problem persists, I'm not sure why you are telling me about the space as its not part of the issue at all but thanks all the same.

I have managed to find out this is an IE specific bug related to the !DOCTYPE line, but I haven't managed to solve the issue.

I will post again if/when I resolve this one as I think it may be useful for others.

Sim

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[PaulTEG]

It´s a bit freaky, usually IE is very forgiving (a credit to it´s bulky footprint no doubt)

Can you get all your clients to use Firfox instead of IE

;-)
--Paul
Spanish Keyboards are a beach


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