loading a page without showing it

renny

Hello,

I want have a form that if someone checked on a certain offer, I would like to take that person's information (fname, lname, email, etc) and transfer it real time to my client. My client would like me to send the file via a url. (eg: http://www.test.com/index.php?fname=fname&lname=lname&email=email) The problem is I don't want to put this url into my form action cause I want to take this data and put it into my own database too.

Is it possible to load this page on the page after the submit but make it invisible? I was thinking that I should make an invisible iframe (will invisible iframe still load the page even though it's not visible?)

Any help is really appreciated. Thanks!

-Renny

brianu

Hi,

Let the form submit as per usual, grab all the data and insert it to your system and when you are finished send it all off to the other server using a header reddirect

The code to do it is:

<?php

header("Location: http://name.of.server.to.send.to/page.php?blah=foo&bar=yahoo");

you need to ensure you haven't sent any output to the browser on the page that does the inserts to your system.
You also need to make sure that there isn't any whitespace in any included files.

If you get a "header failed output already started" error this is most likely what is causing it.

Hope this helps.

Brian

brianu

Hi,

Just in case you don't understand......

the form submits to a log_information.php page on your server.
log_information.php enters the details into your database and when that has been done you redirect to your clients site using the code above.

I'm not sure as to where you want the user to end up though.