POST Redirect.

Kold

Hi.

I need to send a user to a form using a redirect, however, i will need to POST back the data they submitted. I am not able to just display the form on the script page.

Basically, I am creating a server side validation system, where there are a number of different forms. The plan was to redirect the users back to the page they came from with the data, plus a bit more for error checking, however if using the normal Header(Location🙂 redirect this would need to be done using GET, but post is needed as there is too much data.

As a last resort I will need to have every form contain it's own validation code, then use a POST request using cURL or something to submit the final/complete data to the current submission script (where I wanted the validtion code).

Any ideas?
Thanks!

BobLennon

Sounds to me like you need to create a session and share the session variables with the different pages.

Kold

The forms are on different servers.

frost110

You can use javascript with html to accomplish this task.


<script>
        function submitPost(url) {
               //set the action page
                form.submit.action = url;
               // do the submit
                form.submit();
        }
</script>

<form name="form" method=POST>
<input type=hidden name=var1 value=val1 />
</form>
<script> submitPost('http://www.yoururl.com/page.php');</script>

My JS is not that great, but if you get the syntax right that should do the trick

http://javascript.internet.com
http://www.webmonkey.com

For help references.

--FrosT

Kold

I am using PHP because so many people have javascript off. When the site was first released a year or two ago, javascript was fine and errorneous entries were rare. Now however there are a noticeable number of errors that dont exist if javascript is turned on.

Thanks.

frost110

That is about all I know how to do it. I do not believe you can pass post data from site to site without doing a postback by a form button or with javascript.

Maybe someone else has encountered this error, as for me that is the best I can give ya.

--FrosT

arwizard68

just a thought / question on this subject. --- would there be any reason why he could not write the information to a flat file and then have the server 2 call the information from that file on server 1. may be a idea for a workaround to accomplish it.

ps --- i have never tried this so i dont know if it would even work or not...