Sending Data to a second page without leaving the original page

[Greg_Encino_]

I don't know if this can be done. I am fairly good with PHP but not an advanced user by any means.

I have a page that is doing a lot of Database manipulation and along the way I would like to send variables to another page while not leaving the one I am on. Is that possible.

Basically the code is something like this in concept:

receive user POST data
put that data in a database
get ID of row just created in database
send that ID to a different Domain/URL
do more manipulation to database
display results

[NogDog]

[man]cURL[/man] would probably be the most likely solution.

[Greg_Encino_]

Well, I will have to see if it's installed. I don't have any say over what is installed at the moment. Is it a standard part of PHP? If not, is there any other way? Oh and its PHP 4.x , not 5. I've tried the HTTP_SEND_DATA commands and they don't work with our version of PHP.

Thanks for the reply nogDog!

[Greg_Encino_]

I do have this:

CURL support enabled
CURL Information libcurl/7.12.1 OpenSSL/0.9.7a zlib/1.2.1.2 libidn/0.5.6

So I will look into what I can do with CURL! thank you again.

[Horizon88]

Curl would work, but you could also consider doing something with AJAX, if you're into that at all.

[Greg_Encino_]

Not as much into AJAX yet. I'm not sure I could really fit it into the structure of what the page already is. Unfortunately I am not the architect of what is already there, I am the nurse adding the band-aids before the patient bleeds to death! No time to do it perfect. It's triage time. 🙁