Sending form data to two files?

[Anon]

Hi,

I am trying to send form data in a php page to two seperate files for processing. One is a Perl file which sends emails depending on details from the form (eg $name1) and the other is my PHP file which enters the details into mySQL database.

I can simply process one then have a "Continue Button" with hidden values to send to the second process but chances of the user encountering errors increases.

Is it possible to send to two places at once (invisible to user) if so how best could I accomplish this.

Thnaks in advance.

Steven

[Anon]

Since you can only action one file in the <form>, whichever one you choose would have to send the form data on to the other.

I presume either one can be used as a form action script, ergo they're accessible via an http request. So in the action script construct such a request with the form data inside and send it to the other via the web server.

How you do this in Perl is debatable (tmtowtdi), and also in PHP. But in the latter case I'd consider using the cURL functions, so's I don't have to worry my pretty little head about composing appropriate headers and formatting the data as per CGI standard.

There may be other solutions in PHP, using the system(), exec() functions or the `` operator, and no doubt there are a number in Perl, if there are alternate ways than a CGI request to supply the data (have the first script to write a temporary file for the other script to read and then delete?). But the final answer is that one of the scripts has to call the other with the form data.