[Resolved] Submitting information to multiple sources

[wad]

I often need to make a similar post to multiple sources with almost the same information. I'd like to be able to submit one form, and have it post to half dozen places.

I could make a form, and require certain information be required, but I'm not sure how to have it post to multiple sources. Would it be better to call a local file, and have it execute several functions, like post_loc1(), post_loc2(), etc? Or is there a fancy way of having multiple ACTION METHOD calls in a form header?

Thanks!

[sfullman]

Get curl installed on your system - look it up at google - or see from phpinfo() if it's not already on your system - you can submit information unlimited times no problem, ftp it, pretty much anything. Here is an example using curl:

	$formdata = array ( "REQUESTTYPE" => "APPROVALONLY","MERCHANTID" => "worldimpact",
			"AMOUNT" => "$AMOUNT","CUSTOMERID" => "$NameID",
			"BNAME" => "$BNAME", "BCOMPANY" => "$BCOMPANY","BADDRESS1" => "$BADDRESS1","BCITY" => "$BCITY",
			"BSTATE" => "$BSTATE","BZIPCODE" => "$BZIPCODE","BCOUNTRY" => "$BCOUNTRY",
			"CCNUMBER" => "$CCNUMBER","CCTYPE" => "$CCTYPE","EXPMO" => "$EXPMO",
			"EXPYE" => "$EXPYR","BEMAIL" => "$BEMAIL");

  foreach($formdata AS $key => $val){
	$urlstring .= urlencode($key) . "=" . urlencode($val) . "&";
  }
$urlstring = substr($urlstring, 0, -1);
//print($urlstring);

$ch = curl_init("https://secure1.merchantmanager.com/ccgateway.asp");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $urlstring);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "https://secured.com/~f1506/golf/checkout.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

//note $data is the return string from the remote page in response

[wad]

Thank you very much sfullman. This will be a good starting point for doing this.