mail and submit

[norpel]

Hi,
I have a form that will submit a purchase to worldpay (just POSTing some basic variables)

The same form collects some background information about the user which I'd like to be emailed to myself)

Does anyone know how I can get the form to perform these two actions when the submit button is clicked - is this a javascript thing?

My other thought would be to get the form to submit to itself, email the data and then resubmit itself to worldpay, but i'm not sure if this is possible (I'd like not to have to change the header, as this is set elsewhere in a site-wide template file)

any help or ideas are much appreciated,

thanks,
norpel

[Installer]

You could structure your script like this:

if ($_POST['basic_variable']) {
    function_using_curl($_POST['basic_variable'];
    mail('[e-mail]', 'Basic Information', $_POST['basic_information']);
} else {
    echo '<form action="' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '" method="post">';
    echo '<input type="hidden" name="basic_variable" value="cc number" />';
    echo '<input type="hidden" name="basic_information" value="5 foot 2" />';
    echo '<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" />';
    echo '</form>';
}

using CURL to make the post to worldpay.

[norpel]

thanks installer - this is a big help. I think CURL is what I was looking for

[norpel]

I'm having some problems getting cURL to work...

what I need to do is POST some variables to worldpay, and redirect the browser to the page I've posted these variables to.

I seem to be able to POST the variables but my page doesn't seem to go anywhere

// CURL
$submitstring = "";
foreach($_POST as $index=>$value) {
	$notsubmitted=array('_stage', 'association', 'giftaid');
	$in = true;
	foreach($notsubmitted as $not) {
		if($index==$not) {
			$in = false;
		}
	}
	if($in) {
		$submitstring .= $index.'='.$value.'&';
	}
}

$ch = curl_init("https://select.worldpay.com/wcc/purchase"); 
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $submitstring); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.meditateinscotland.org/donate.php"); 
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0); 
$data = curl_exec($ch); 
curl_close($ch);

[Installer]

Add this line in your curl_setopt() list:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

And this one after the curl_close() statement:

echo $data;

That should display the worldpay page, assuming it has visible output.

[norpel]

thanks installer - this works great... but when the worldpay page loads the URLs for the images and links are relative to their page, so the links try to go to another page in my site instead of theirs and similarly with the images

any ideas?

is there some way to actually go to their site instead of display their page within mine?

[Installer]

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. 😉 Off the top of my head, I don't remember solving that, or seeing it solved. I'll see if I can come up with something after I and my dogs get back from the vet, and meanwhile maybe someone else will jump in with an easy answer.

Here's a link to the cURL FAQ page.

[norpel]

i can solve the problem with the links and images by putting

$data = ereg_replace('=/', '=https://select.worldpay.com/', $data);
$data = ereg_replace('="/', '="https://select.worldpay.com/"', $data);
echo $data;

in my code to clean up the URL's

but there also seems to be some cookies and session variables set by worldpay, any idea how I can transfer them into my session?

(this all seems to be a bit of a hack - surely there must be an easier way of POSTing some variables and actually going to the page where they've been POSted to.... anyone???)