Posting form data to two files

[cpaoletto]

Hi,

I am posting form data to a credit card processing company for processing of a transaction. The problem I am having is the following:

1. Form data gets sent to processing company through form action.
2. Processing company response, denial or success, then gets redirected to a file that I specify as a hidden field in my form page.
3. The response/receipt page has a php mail function which sends details of the order to the client if the transaction is successful.

The details of the transaction come from the form data but being that the form data gets posted to the processing company first, when the mail function gets executed on the receipt page all the information is blank, such as the name, amount, etc.

How can I post the form data to both the processing company and to the receipt page?

[e4c5]

The bad news is that POST data does not get forwarded when you redirect from one page to another. The good news is that most credit card processing companies have so called 'passback' parameters. That is the CC company will send to you a set of parameters that contains information about the purchase. You will be able to find out about them either with a call to var dump or with a look at their documentation.

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[Roger_Ramjet]

You can store the form data in eg db, session vars, text file under the trans id you are passing to the CC company. They would then be available to the callback scripts.

Our payment processing company accepts order details and includes them in the email it sends us after every transaction. It will also generate an email that it sends to the purchaser that can include order details, a standard message header (can be any text including html) and a custom message passed with the order details. See what yours has set up.