Force a form post?

Perloe

I just launched a new website (www.gottatrade.com) and need help with a specific problem. When a user clicks a submit button on a form on my site, I want to be able to send an email and then also have the form action happen. Can I make the form action trigger a php function which will send the email and then take the original POST data and send it off?

Does that make sense? Is there a way to do this? I am just overlooking something.

Thanks in advance.

cgraz

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
  $to = "someone@somewhere.com";
  $headers = "From: you$yourdomain.com";
  $subject = "subject line here";
  $message = "Just letting you know you submitted the form";
  mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

  // it's mailed, now do whatever you wanted to do with the form
  echo "your name is " . $_POST['name'];

} else {

  // display form

}

Cgraz

Perloe

Thanks for the code. The problem I'm having though is that now I want to be able to actually post the data to a URL on a site that is not my own.

Specifically, I'm sending order data to PayPal on their server through a form POST. But before it goes to them, I want to email myself the order data.

So now that I've mailed the data to myself using your code, how do I then post the data on the PayPal?

Thanks!

cgraz

you mean redirect them to paypal's url with their form variables int he url?

header("Location: http://www.paypal.com/page.php?name=".$POST["name"]."&amount=".$POST["amount"].");

that may have parse errors, it's untested (and it's late), but is this what you were wanting to do?

Cgraz

Perloe

Yes, that is what I want to do. But isn't sending the info in the URL considered a GET method and not a POST method? PayPal only accepts stuff in a POST method.

cgraz

ok, that makes more sense. You could try the following:

when they click submit, the form does two things.
1. Opens a popup window that says you are now being redirected to. . . (in the background, this is a php script that mails you their form submission)
2. Sends the visitor to paypal's site in the original window with the post form fields.

the other thing you may try is when they hit submit, they get taking to a php script where you email the submission to yourself, then there you have the same form except with hidden input fields and all the values already filled in, and somehow using javascript, submit the form on the redirect to paypal's site. Not quite sure how to do the javascript for that, but if you post on a javascript forum i'm sure someone would be able to help with that.

Hope this helps.

Cgraz

Perloe

I think we're getting closer to a solution. Thanks a lot for all your help cgraz. I'm going to peruse the javascript forums and see if that will work.

cgraz

no problem; sorry I couldn't be of more assistance. My javascript skills are limited. Hopefully the concept will get you going.

Cgraz