Branching to a URL but staying in script

[srunkel]

Hi,

I'm receiving data from users via a form. The data includes bank account numbers and routing numbers so that they can pay a screening fee. I need to transmit this information to a 3rd party company via a CGI they have on their secure server. I have a URL for that, which works fine when I do that step separately.

But I'm also receiving, from the same form, a bunch of data that I need to compile and email. But I only want to compile and email it if I know I've sent the data to the 3rd party company CGI successfully. If it fails, I want to do something else.

So the question is: how can I, from within a single script, send some data to another URL/CGI on a different server (https://...), wait for a response, and then continue my processing? If it can't be done in a single script, how could I achieve this with a sequence of scripts? The 3rd party company's CGI returns a short text string indicating whether the transaction was successful.

Thanks,

Scott

[kailien]

write a script to accept the form. in this script, it will record the stuff you need and also send the bank info to the 3rd party cgi.

tell the cgi to return to a specific URL (another php script).

if the return variable is good, then do certain things like process emails etc

if the return variable is bad, then do certain things