[Resolved] Sending POST data automatically?

Kris_Cox

Have you ever wanted to have your cake and eat it too?

When a user indicates he/she is ready to purchase a service through my site, they are directed to a page that displays the site's Terms of Use, requiring the user to select a checkbox indicating his/her acceptance of the Terms. Clicking the form's submit button submits to the same page, and a handler at the top then checks if the page is displaying due to a submission to itself and whether the checkbox was checked (my standard error-checking procedure).

If the checkbox was not checked, and error message is displayed as the page re-displays. If the checkbox was checked, I then want to submit some POST data to PayPal (requires data via POST). However, I am stumped on how to do this automatically, without displaying another form/submit button for the user to click.

Any thoughts would be most welcome!!! Thanks!

Kris

rebelo

If I understand you correctly, you want to make the form instantly submit when the user checks the checkbox, correct? If so, this is yet another non-php issue. This is a javascript issue. I think you need to use the onclick="" directive, however I am not a javascript man, so I cannot be 100% sure. However, you will most certainly be able to find your answer on this forum:

http://codewalkers.com/forum/index.php?forum=clientside&realm=default

Try searching for the problem there and there will be several results that should do what you need.

Kris_Cox

Thanks! You may be right about it being beyond PHP. Actually, I do not need it to submit when the checkbox is checked. submitting when the submit button is clicked is fine--as long as I can verify that the checkbox has been checked. What I definitely want to avoid is checking for the checkbox on the first submission and then displaying a second submit button for the user to click just to accomplish the POST submission to PayPal (I would like to do it all in one action). Also, I am leary of using Javascript, as I understand it may not work for some users who have it turned-off.

drawmack

I may be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that paypal takes all needed information in a get manor. So then you could just use a header location

Kris_Cox

PayPal's button generator creates "Post" forms, but if it will also work with "Get" submissions, then we have a winner! I will double check this (and mark this resolved if it's the case). Thanks!

Kris_Cox

With all the PayPal variables slapped onto the URL it's not pretty, but it does seem to work! Thanks!