redirect using post method

daus95

Hi all,

I have a problem. I want to redirect to a page and at the same time, I have to send some variables using POST method to that page.

I cannot use (for example):

header ("Location: dest.php?p=1");

because the variable (p) is too long to be sent using GET method.

I found some classes that use fsock function to get response from HTTP POST, but it doesn't solve my problem, because I have to go to the destination page right after I do the POST.

So, what I really need is a command like:

header ("..........");

which brings the page to the destination, and at the same time, post the vars to that page.

thank you,

soulreaver

Silly question but why don't you just set the form action to the page you want to go to. That way you can post any number of hidden values without a prob

Or I am missing the point here????

(probably...)

Neil

Anon

I can't do that, because the page may not send any HTML response to the user. The page is only a 'processing' page, which do some database query and redirect to another page right after the query execution.

One of the alternative is sending HTML response that contains only a hidden variables and put onLoad="submit()" on the body tag, or I can also put META TAG 'REFRESH' using 0 second delay. But I think this is not a good programming practice 🙁

But anyway, thank you for trying to answer my question.

soulreaver

In that case all you need is something like the code below. This is a validation page for a login. The form passes the variables to this page, it does the queries and redirects depending upon the result. Hope this is more useful

$link=mysql_connect("server name","userid","password");
if (!$link)
die("Couldn't connect to MySQL");
mysql_select_db("dbname") or die ("Couldn't open Database");

$sql="SELECT * FROM ids WHERE username = '$userid' AND password = PASSWORD('$lpassword')";

$result=mysql_query($sql);

if (mysql_num_rows($result) == 1)
{
//initiate a session
session_start();
// register the user's ID
session_register("SESSION_UID");
list($id, $userid, $lpassword, $level) = mysql_fetch_row($result);
$SESSION_UID = $id;
//redirect to main page
header("Location:congrats.php");
mysql_free_result ($result);
// close connection
mysql_close($connection);
}
else
{
mysql_free_result($result);
// redirect to error page
header("Location:failed.php?error=4");
exit;
}