Difference between two approches

ranjangoyal

Hi All,

What I want to do:

I have 3 pages.

Page 1 has a form and form action takes control to page 2.

At Page 2 I do some processing and send result at page 3.

at Page 3 after some more processing control is send back to Page 1.

When control passes from page1 to page2 , I require all the data from Page1 to Page 2 and from Page 2 to Page3 and Page 3 to back to Page1.

To achive the required I used approch 1 which is javascript dependent. I used this because Approch 2 failed.

Can you please tell me the difference between the given two approches? Or Can you tell me which one is better and why?

Regards,
Ranjan

Approch 1:

$target=$path['main'].'/payCredits.php?jd='.$data['jobGrade'].'&userId='.$loginId;

echo"<font color='#FFFFFF'>-</font>";
$form='';
$form .= <<< FORM
<form name=sendform method=post action="$target">
<input type="hidden" name="userId" value="{$loginId}">
<input type="hidden" name="schoolId" value="{$data['schoolName']}">
<input type="hidden" name="title" value="{$data['jobTitle']}">
<input type="hidden" name="shortDesc" value="{$data['shortIntro']}">
<input type="hidden" name="longDesc" value="{$data['body']}">
<input type="hidden" name="jobType" value="{$data['jobType']}">
<input type="hidden" name="jobGrade" value="{$data['jobGrade']}">
<input type="hidden" name="salary" value="{$data['salary']}">
<input type="hidden" name="proofRead" value="{$data['proofRead']}">
</form>
<script>
sendform.submit();
</script>
FORM;
echo $form;
exit;

Approch 2:

if($data['jobGrade'] != 'bronze'){

$arrayToBePosted = array('schoolId' => '{$data['schoolName']}', 'title' => '{$data['jobTitle']}', 'shortDesc' => '{$data['shortIntro']}', 'longDesc' => '{$data['body']}', 'jobType' => '{$data['jobType']}', 'jobGrade' => '{$data['jobGrade']}', 'salary' => '{$data['salary']}', 'proofRead' => '{$proofRead}','userId'=> $loginId);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$path['main'].'/payCredits.php');
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$arrayToBePoste d);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

}

theelectricwiz

ranjangoyal wrote:
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$arrayToBePoste d);
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Hello,

This function requires a string variable to be passed to it when you are passing the third parameter (at the moment you are passing it "Array" whereas you need something like "schoolId=onslow&name=bob+simmons" (NB:needs to be url encoded)) and you might want to make sure the ' d' typo in $arrayToBePoste d parameter isn't there in your script. My suggestion would be to use the curl approach as it should increase the rate in which it happens as you don't have to send the intermediate page to the users browser.

ranjangoyal

Hi Jack,

Thanks for your response.

May be typo was the main problem area that I skipped.

We can pass $_REQUEST so we can pass $arrayToBePosted. Therefore, I don't consider it a problem area.

Still my problem has not been resolved as I want to know which approch is better and why.

Thanks,
Ranjan

theelectricwiz wrote:
Hello,

This function requires a string variable to be passed to it when you are passing the third parameter (at the moment you are passing it "Array" whereas you need something like "schoolId=onslow&name=bob+simmons" (NB:needs to be url encoded)) and you might want to make sure the ' d' typo in $arrayToBePoste d parameter isn't there in your script. My suggestion would be to use the curl approach as it should increase the rate in which it happens as you don't have to send the intermediate page to the users browser.

theelectricwiz

Hello,

Righto, yeah I should have double checked the array thing properly (I just had a quick look on php.net).
I think the curl approach (approach 2) is better because then you don't need to send page2 to the user, you will just send them the result of page3. This will in turn decrease the amount of traffic required to complete this from the server to the user's pc (only the contents of page 3 are sent to the user's computer instead of the form used in approach 1 and the contents of page 3) and will hence speed up the process.

I hope this better answers your question

ranjangoyal

Thanks. This is what I wanted.

theelectricwiz wrote:
Hello,

Righto, yeah I should have double checked the array thing properly (I just had a quick look on php.net).
I think the curl approach (approach 2) is better because then you don't need to send page2 to the user, you will just send them the result of page3. This will in turn decrease the amount of traffic required to complete this from the server to the user's pc (only the contents of page 3 are sent to the user's computer instead of the form used in approach 1 and the contents of page 3) and will hence speed up the process.

I hope this better answers your question