POST Data help

[kingsol]

Greetings friends.

Here is my question. I am creating a script that takes information from a shopping cart (skus,name, credit card, etc.). For security reasons, I don't want to use hidden form fields to store merchant ID and Transaction Key information. So, to simplfy the receipt and transaction page I decided to have the information sent to a script, where it is entered into my database with a flag that the order is not complete. This part works great. BUT I need to then POST (not GET) the data to a file on Authorize.net (gateway) for credit card approval. Upon success it will return the invoice number to me of which I then turn the order status from not complete to complete and display a success and confirmation page.

Can anyone offer either a solution as to how to POST POSTED data to another page.

OR a better solution to insure the most security so that personal and conifidential information could NOT be captured by a view source.

I'll be out most of the day so please reply as much as you can. Thanks everybody....this forum has been a life source for me.

MUCHAS GRACIAS in advance.

[ahundiak]

It would be nice to be able POST to another page. But I have never been able to do so. Maybe someone else knows how.

For your application, consider encrypting the credit card number (see the mcrypt section of the manual) and then sending it as GET data. Of course, you may not have control over authorize.net.