How To make Form Post to More Than One URL

[kenari]

Greeting,

I'm beginner on PHP script, I had go through some tutorial and now able to write my simple PHP program like Mail to 100 recipient using the PHP mail()+While()+MySQL.

I now interested to learn more which I rarely found some discussion on forum.

OK, Here is the question I had at the moment.

Suppose I want to submit the same information from the Form below:

<form method=POST action="abc.php">

Title: <input type=text name="title" size=30><br>
URL: <input type=text name="url" size=55><br>

Section to be placed in: <select name="section">
<option> Business
<option> Computers
<option> Education
<option> Entertainment
<option> Government
<option> Personal
<option selected> Miscellaneous
</select><br>

<input type=submit value="Submit"> *
<input type=reset>
</form>

Did your notice, the Form action="abc.php", normally, this form will POST it variable to the address we specify when the Submit button was click. But, this is only POST to 1 address.

How about, if we want it to POST it to more than one address automatically, said to the following address:

1) abc.php
2) xyz.html
3) 123.cgi

Can I use PHP to make the Form post to all the 3 address when the Submit button was click? (I know it can be done, the only thing is I'm too new in PHP, so I don't know the coding for this)

Like the PHP script I use to send email like this:

$sql2 = "SELECT Email FROM contact";
$res2 = mysql_query($sql2) or die("Couldn't get addresses.");

$headers ="From: ".$_POST[From]." <".FROMEMAIL.">";

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($res2)) {
$email_addr = $row[0];
mail("$email_addr", "$_POST[subject]", $fullmessage, $headers);

Did anyone of your have any idea what the code to use for POSTing the variable to more than one address???

Your contribution of idea will benefits to all of the forum reader, please help me by suggest me the PHP code to use for the above function.

Thanks in advance.

Kenari

[bubblenut]

I'm not quite sure of what you are wanting. Do you want two more windows to open when you press the submit button one with each of the files in?
Bubble

[kenari]

Sorry, for the misleading and confusing word I express.

OK, here how the program should work.

Normally, if I need to Post the same variable to 3 different URL, I will be visit the page and entering the data then click the Submit button, after that I visit another URL and enter the same data again then click the Submit button again and visit another URL to perform the same task again.

You can see that I doing the same job or duplicating the joy for entering the same data, by submit to different URL.

What I actually thinking is, If I can only enter the data ONCE(since the data for the 3 page are the same) on my Form then when I click the Submit button, the script will take the variable that I enter and Submit to the URL one by one AUTOMATICALLY without anymore clicking the Submit button.

Allow me to give another example like FFA Page (Free For All Link):

In order to submit the my site on that FFA page 1 for listing, I will need to enter the detail like:

Website URL:
Site Description:
Catergory:

After entering the detail using their Form then click the Submit button.

Then I visit another FFA Page 2 and enter the same detail using their Form and click the Submit button again

Again, I visit another FFA Page 3 and enter the same detail using their Form and click the Submit button again.

How can we simplify the task by enter the detail ONCE, then write a script to take the variable and submit to FFA Page 1 then FFA Page 2 and FFA Page 3 AUTOMATICALLY by just click the Submit button ONCE on my Form.

If the above example still confusing, here take a look at the last example:

The normal Form Handle is:
<form method="POST" action="abc.php">

Now let make it POST to 3 different URL:

<form method="POST" action="abc.php, xyz.html, 123.cgi">

(I don't know is this work or not, I never try before, from the tutorial I read never teach me this before, but at least it explain that if I click the Submit button once, the Form will post all the variable to 3 different URL AUTOMATICALLY)

Please help me by suggest me the correct script that I need to use.

Thanks in Advance.

[bubblenut]

Where does the daa get stored after they input it? If it's stored in a flat file or a database you should not need to enter it in more than once. If it is not then think about doing so.
HTH
Rob

[Shrike]

You can only send a form to one URL at a time, this is a limitation of HTTP protocol, not PHP. As has been mentioned before, the best thing you can do would be to store the information somewhere, a database, a cookie, whatever.

If you desparately need to send form data to 3 addresses, then send it first to a PHP script which you control, within which create a POST request for each of the addresses with a $fsock connection and some $header calls.

Sounds nasty in any case, a database is the way to go 🙂

[kenari]

Hi,

Thank for your advise, at least now I know which point should I focus to study, I will go and find the tutorial on this issue and give it a try.

Thank again.

[farel]

This is just a suggestion as I am new to php as well but what if you made an array with all the different addresses then have php loop through the array sending the data to each url? Sorry if that doesn't help but im pretty sure I think I know what im talking about lol.