Sending form to a page on another domain and receiving the response...

[Kinsbane]

Hi folks,

I have a project where I need to submit a specially constructed form to a lead retrieval website, and if the URL the form POST's to deems the data to be okay, it returns a statically-formed response which is the same every time.

I have no clue how to do this, as I've not yet come across needing to do something like this.

Here's an example:

<!-- this form is contained on www.domain1.com -->
<form action="http://www.domain2.com/post.php" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="text" />
<input type="text" name="message" />
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>

So, once the form is sent to www.domain2.com/post.php it will return a SUCCESS response, but I need to know how to capture it to determine if the submit went through fine. I dunno how to do that, though 🙁

[peytonrm]

It probably could be done the way you have started, but I think a better way would be to have the form be processed by a script on your server that does a CURL call to the external URL, processes the response, and then returns whatever to the user. Just search the PHP manual for CURL if you are unfamiliar. In general, it is the best way PHP has to transfer data between separate servers.