Is there a POST function?

[Anon]

I have a form that gets customer info and payment info. On submit, the payment info is sent to the payment gateway. Is there a PHP function that allows me to send name/value pairs to a URL as the script is loading instead of waiting for the user to press submit?

I hope this makes sense to someone.

Digimatt

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I'm a bit confused about exactly when you want to send the data.

You can allways send data to a URL through the URL:

http://some.host/some_script.php?key=value&otherkey=othervalue

Note: this data can show up in the "location" bar of the browser. you'll need to hide it with a hidden frame or use a POST method (tricky)

[Anon]

Okay...

Bobby fills out a form at my site to buy a product. Part of the info is for a CC transaction. My cart sends the information to the payment gateway. The payment gateway returns a result. If the credit card is accepted, then I need to send information to my affiliate service. I don't want my User to have to hit another Submit to send that data.

I need to know if i can do something like:

<?
send this http://someserver.com?a=1&b=2 ;

send that http://anotherserver.com?a=1&c=3;

echo ('$a);
echo ('$b);
echo ('$c);

?>

[[deleted]]

You could just use fopen() to call the CC webserver and fetch the datab back, look at the manual:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

you could do

$fp=fopen("http://creditcardserver.com/check.php?cardnumber=1234&name=charles");
then $fp is a filepointer containing the webserver's response, which you can read and parse .

If you feel more confident you could also do it using sockets, which gives you a little more freedom about exactly what you send and how, but it can be tricky.

use the fopen() first and see if you need more.