how to submit form with header from code?

frizzo

Is it possible to construct a form using php, fill in the values, and then send it, along with the user, to the form, so that the user doesn't have to actually submit the form?

What I'm trying to do is streamline a paypal implementation on a site that offers classified ads. The user enters the ad, clicks a radio with the subscription length for the ad, and then submits the form. The PHP page receives the form, inserts the data into the database, and then [what i'm trying to figure out how to do] forwards the user to the paypal page so they can pay for their subscription.

This is commonly done by presenting a form with the paypal button, when the user clicks it, it submits the form to paypal. I'm trying to remove this step, to just forward the user to the paypal site, and making php submit the form.

this way the user doesn't get the opportunity to forget to click on the paypal button. I tried doing a header:location and filling in the form in a GET, but paypal wouldn't accept it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Frizzo 😕

Ceril

Is there not plenty of this written on the paypal site?
Including a php script for how to handle instant payments?

Else, check www.php.net/curl

zapa

Javascript will save you my good man...

The "Form" method

Spiders can't fill form fields in, and so they make no attempt at submitting forms, which means that forms can be used for auto-redirecting.

What isn't generally realised about forms is that the URL in a form's 'action' parameter is just a URL that the browser requests from the server. It is given special treatment by the browser by adding some name=value pairs to the requested URL, but if none exist, the browser will still make the request for the URL.

Javascript can be used to submit the form as soon as the page begines to load. Here is what a Javascript automatic form submission looks like, together with the form to submit:-

Code:
<head>
<script language="javascript">
</script>
...other head section stuff (Title, Description,etc.)...
</head>
<body>
<form name="myform" action="pagename.html" method="get"></form>

...rest of the page...

"myform" can be any name and "pagename.html" can be any absolute or relative URL.

mroe info at; http://www.internet-marketing-research.net/archived/ptopic6275.html