Self Submit a FORM

[ihenman]

I have a form full of hidden variables that needs to be submitted to a remote server...Can I some how self submit the form using PHP rather then JS?

i.e.

<form name=myform method=post action=someothersite.pl>
<input type=hidden name=test value=variable>
</form>

How can I submit this to sometohersite.pl (the action address) via PHP?

Cheers,

ihenman

[Frederick]

This maybe a quick fix but you can create a pop-up to initiate a useless info item and in the background of this pop-up have a process run. Other then that, you need to direct the users to a page that will open and run code.

[dalecosp]

You could do it with header and GET (change the method), but I don't know if the PERL script at "othersite" would work with that.

Otherwise, it's JS, as you mention, or play around with socket programming in PHP, I'd expect. In theory at least, you could POST to the server, but you'd basically be writing an HTML user-agent, though it might not be as complex as it sounds.

[perrohunter]

im not a javascript expert but i thing that javascript could do the thing 😛

try this

<script language='Javascript'>
<!--
// please keep these lines on when you copy the source
// made by: Nicolas - http://www.javascript-page.com

var URL   = 'othersite.php'
var speed = 2000  // after 2 seconds ! ! !


function reload() {
location = URL  // No this could also be a submit function for java
}

setTimeout('reload()', speed);
//-->
</script>

u could change the location URL , that is the thing that would redirec the site to anyother funtion on javascript that im sure that exist, i just dont remerber which was 😛

[bradgrafelman]

<form name="myForm" method="POST" action="script.php">
<input type="hidden" name="test" value="<?PHP echo $variable; ?>">
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
setTimeout('document.myForm.submit()', 3000);
</script>
<p>Please wait while data is being processed...</p>