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Night4554

Basically I want to submit a form to two locations: one on my server and one remote.

Ideally, I'd like to not have the user submit two forms. What I was thinking was, take the form submit on my server, so stuff with it, then send the exact same submitted data along to another server in header()'s or connections or something (I was actually going to send the data before I did stuff with it on my server).

But I don't have my PHP book with me, and I was hoping you'd be able to tell if what I'm thinking of isn't possible, or if is, the geernal idea of where to look in the manual on php.net

tekky

my guess...

on the submit... have it post to a 2nd page that processes the first form.... (no text output from this page)

once the page is processed have it header() redirect to the 2nd page offsite or whatever and pass the variables via GET options in the URL, the have this page redirect to the "thanks for submitting blah blah" page or close the browser so the http GET address doesnt really have a chance to reveal any unwanted data.... (or you could just use an SQL database... that both sites can login to...)

Night4554

Ordinarily, I would do something similar to that, but things prevent me:

There is too much data to pass in with GET variables, and the offsite must be POST'ed

I don't have access to the offsite form control, I have to send it with specific variables via POST.

I might have to have a page opened with javascript that automatically submits the form....

BuzzLY

To do what you want, start with [man]curl[/man]. If you need specific help with POSTing, do a search on google for CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS. That should get you started.