Emulate post

[villager203]

We had a former employee write a php script to seach a mysql database. The page works but now we want to add an email field and have that write to a separate database. We asked the now former employee and says we need to create code to emulate a POST that writes to the seprate Mysql database. He wont be any more specific that that. Does he mean write a second post and what about the submit button, which has different attributes. Any help would be appreciated as we are caught without a programmer at the moment.

[njm]

Well, it sounds like you can just add another field to the current form without changing anything else. Then in the processing script create a query to add the email to the second database.

If you need any more specific help, post back with the current code.

hth, njm

[villager203]

Thanks for your reply:
Here is the situation. We already have a form method="GET" action="results.php" that search a mysql database based on an external function file.
We also have a second mysqlserver database done in Java and Tomcat and the post is like action="http://111.111.611.222:8888/webapp/pages" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="action" value="data" /> and the submit <input type="submit" name="data" value="click" class="formButton" />.
How can these different post and submits work together in one form? It is a bit of a mess.
Thanks