Sending email BEFORE posting?

ywickham

Hi all,

I have a script that receives information posted to it and displays it for confirmation purposes. If everything is correct, the user is then required to press the Submit button on that page in order to confirm 1 of 2 options:

Yes, Bill me
Yes, Charge my credit card

If the option is to bill the person, then the form is submitted to itself, an email sent to the administrator, and the page refreshes, letting the person know that they will be billed. This option works great.

The second option is the one I have a problem with. So, if the option is to charge the credit card, the page is posted to a credit card processing server. I need to be able to send an email to the administrator, in the same way I am sending an email when the user has selected to use option 1. The problem seems to be that since I am posting to another page (one that is out of our control), the email never gets processed.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can force the script to process the email before it posts to the other site? Or do I have other options available to me that I am not even considering?

Any help will be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks!

bad76

Hi,
my hint is to post at a your page that send email
and post at real page...

instead of
form_page send to action_page

you write
form_page send to mailer_page auto-switch to action_page

i hope this help you...

ywickham

So, you're saying I should add yet an additional page to this whole process, meaning it will follow like this:

Order field fill-in page (page 1.php)
Order confirmation page (page2.php)
Order email page and forwarding to credit card server (page3.php)

Did I understand you correctly?

If that is the case, I would actually like to keep the email processing on the 2nd page (page2.php) where it currently is for the first option (see original post). So maybe I should be asking how to automatically post a page without forcing the user to press a Submit button? In this way, I could then submit the page to itself again, allow it to process the email and at which point it would then automatically submit the page to the credit card server.

Anyone? Any ideas?

bad76

Yes, you understand correctly.

If you want self-submit just add an ONCLICK event to your options:
<input type=radiobutton ONCLICK=sendmail()>

where sendmail() is like that:
<script>
function sendmail()
{
document.myform.action=page2.php;
document.myform.submit();
}
</script>