How to pass on form variable w/ redirect

[Anon]

Hello,

Here's the scenario:

• user clicks a links which has a identifier encoded in the URL.
• .php page gets the id-string, looks up in MySQL and fills a few variables, stored in a form.
• user gets redirected to another site and the variables are passed on to the second URL

The third part is where I've got my problem. I suppose that because the submit button is not pressed, the action isn't performed and the variables cannot be passed.
Is there any way to pass on variables with a redirect?

Christian Capito

[fujicrea]

I can only assume that you don't want to pass the variables through the URL - as that could be a potential security leak...

I am also interested in finding out how to post data to emulate a form post while using a redirect script. Will be watching this thread...

Richard

[fujicrea]

I found a thread that my be of service. This is the thread:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/archives/2/2001/1/2/119530

The url to the site mentioned is:
http://px.sklar.com/author.html?author_id=409

Though I haven't tried it, it does appear to be well documented so why not give it a try... 🙂

Richard

[Anon]

Don't worry - because I would like to pass several fields I want to it all with a post.
Besides that, I think URL full of variables are a pain and look dog ugly.

chris

[Anon]

mmm.. http_post looks interesting...

I found this snippet

$mydata ="vn=$vorname&nn=$nachname";
$sp = fsockopen($host,80);
fputs($sp,"POST $path HTTP/1.1\n");
fputs($sp,"Host: $host\n");
fputs($sp,"Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n");
fputs($sp,"Content-length: ".strlen($mydata)."\n");
fputs($sp,"Connection: close\n\n");
fputs($sp,$mydata);
fclose($sp);

and it seems that http_post also uses posting over a socket connection.
The above snippet didn't work out for me, so I'm a bit anxious if http_post will work out.

[kparker]

You lose me right between step 2 and 3. It sounds like in step 2 PHP is generating a form to display to the user, prefilling some of the fields with values it gets from a database query. All fine and good. Now, how is it you get to step 3? Why is a redirect part of what's happening here?

[Anon]

So, let me clarify this a bit...

the user gets a dynamically created link having this form:

http://www.ourserver.com/redirect.php?var=[user identifier]

Using the user identifier, redirect.php throws user fields into hidden fields in a form and redirects silently to a third page:

These hidden fields should be posted into a second page:

http://www.theirserver.com/whatever.php

Where the customer can use the handed over fields to populate various fields, like name, address etc...
That's why I need the redirect.

chris

[Anon]

Hey,

I have come up with a similar problem. How did you overcome yours?

Thank
Apoorva