Posting a Form automatically

Anon

I have an order processing script that ends up going to a page that
redirects. But before the redirect kicks in, it sends the customer a
"Thank you" email.

On this page, I would like to have some php code that sends a Form - as
though it had already been filled in, but instead populated with
variables passed to that redirect page.

i.e. when the redirect page loads, it sends the email (already set up)
and then sends a Form (with the values already populated). I hope this
makes sense!

How do I do this?

Thanks,

Jon

Anon

Hi,

After you send the e-mail, how about redirecting like this:

header('Location: myForm.php?Name=Rolf&Item1=2000&Item2='.$Item2.');

And then 'myForm.php' fills out the appropriate fields with:

Good luck

Anon

I might not have made myself very clear! Here goes again...

Steps

Customer orders and gets taken to a secure server
If credit card check is successful, they get sent to ordersuccess.php
ordersuccess.php uses the "mail" php function to send the customer a Thank You email.
ordersuccess.php then redirects to ordercompleted.php, using ...

(oh, and I don't think it is successfully passing the variable $email - any idea why not?)

I would like to have the ordersuccess.php complete a Form and send the results so that my autoresponder gets both the email and name of the person. My autoresponder service only tells you how to put a Form on your website and complete it. But I want it to use existing variables.

Thanks,

Jon

Anon

Customer orders and gets taken to a secure server

Is the customer leaving your site and going to a different URL for the secure server such as payflowlink?

Sometimes you have to set some hidden variables and other setting to get the data to pass.

Anon

When they order, it gets taken to another site where the credit card is processed.

Once this is successful, you are redirected to the ordersuccess.php page at my site, with the variables being passed from the secure site to the ordersuccess.php page.

Jon

Anon

As soon as you refresh your ordersuccess.php3 page your variables are lost unless you pass them in the URL.

example :

ordersucces.php3?email=$email&customer=$name

-alternatively-

You could recreate your entire form on ordersuccess.php3 page and populate the fields with the variables you get from the order page, THEN use a javascript to perform a form.submit() at the bottom of the page and resubmit the form to the ordercompleted.php3 page.

Anon

I'm concerned with using Javascript just in case the customer has java turned off on their browser.

I thought there must be some way to have a php page post the results of a Form, with the variables as the entries.

Jon

Anon

I use payflow link and when my customers return to my site all of my variables are returned to me as hidden fields to the URL I choose. You probably don't want the variables to transfer in the URL because they can get lost. Most credit card processors should have a way to get the variables passed more efficiently than URL passing.

Once you have them you can update a database, put them into a text file, or just email yourself the variables using the mail function. If you want to populate a form on your site use php print or echo.

<?php print stripslashes($variable) ?>

Put that in your value="" part of the form and they will print right out.

Hope this helps.