How do you do two actions with one form

[tsmith]

<?php
/*
If I change the action of the form to echo self, it inserts in the database
but wont submit to http://some.other.server.

Note that this is an abbreviated form, the real form has about 30 fields, tons
of select option menus, radios, checkboxes and like 1000 lines of html in it.
I'm just using the below for example
*/
?>

<form name="form1" method="post" action="http://some.other.server/cgi-bin/formwork2.cgi">
<table width="350" border="1">
<tr>
<td>first</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="fname">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>last</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="lname">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>city</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="city">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>state</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="state">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>email</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="email">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
<input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
<?php

/
If I submit to self, then the header: Location thing breaks.
If I submit to some.other.server, it won't capture the subset of data that
I need.
/

if($submit){
$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "pass");
mysql_select_db("mydb", $db);

$address .= " ".$apartment_suite;

//pretend all the fields below exist in the form above. 🙂
$query = "insert into contact (salutation, fname, lname, email, address, city,
state, country, zipcode, dob, product, handed, entryPoint) values
('$title', '$first_name', '$last_name', '$email', '$address', '$city', '$state',
'$country', '$zipcode', '$dob', '$product', '$handed', '$entryPoint') ";

mysql_query($query, $db)or die("bad query");

//echo "nice query"; //debug

/*
These are only a few of the parameters of the real form. Luckily I decided to test it
before I typed all that crap!

Is it even necessary to rawurlencode($field) as below? If I know the data is ok -- like
from a select (<option value='1'>) -- can I just send it without url encoding it?
*/
$params = "formid=rawurlencode($formid)&now2000=rawurlencode($now2000)&";
$params .= "req-nexturl=http://www.company.com/clubhouse/register_thankyou.html&";
$params .= "title=rawurlencode($title)&wdopt=rawurlencode($wdopt)&expopt=rawurlencode($wdopt)&";
$params .= "what=rawurlencode($whatpur)&shaft=rawurlencode($shaft)&playgen=rawurlencode($playgen)&";
$params .= "whopur=rawurlencode($whopur)&marital_status=rawurlencode($marital_statues)&";
$params .= "influence=rawurlencode($influence)&seenads=rawurlencode($seenads)&" ;
$params .= "magazine=rawurlencode($magazine)&prevown=rawurlencode($prevown)&";
$params .= "sixmo_activities=rawurlencode($sixmo_activities)";

//echo $params;  //debug
header ("Location: http://some.other.server/cgi-bin/formwork2.cgi?$params"); 
exit; 

}
?>

[ikarus]

you should be able to do whatever you need to do with the form data, and then use: header("Location: some.other.server")

if the header() function breaks, it is probably because you transfered some text to the client. you need to call the header() function before you transfer anything, even spaces and newlines.

you should be able to do the following:

<?php

//process what you want with the data
//urlencode the data

header("Location: some.other.server/cgi-bin/form.cgi");

?>

<form <?= $PHP_SELF ?> method=post>
<input>
.
.
.
</form>

[tsmith]

Wow, cool! Thanks. That does the trick. I see how to use header now.
Now it looks like:
<?php
if($submit){
$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "pass");
mysql_select_db("cgolf", $db);

$address .= " ".$apartment_suite;

$query = "insert into contact (salutation, fname, lname, email, address, city,
 state, country, zipcode, dob, product, handed, entryPoint) values
('$title', '$first_name', '$last_name', '$email', '$address', '$city', '$state',
'$country', '$zipcode', '$dob', '$product', '$handed', '$entryPoint') ";

mysql_query($query, $db)or die("bad query");

$params="formid=$formid&now2000=now2000&req-nexturl="someothervar";

header ("Location: http://some.other.server/cgi-bin/formwork2.cgi?$params");
exit;
}
?>

<head>
lines and lines of html and form stuff...