Send form via PHP headers

Dinky

Hello.

I need a form to automatically be submitted instead of clicking the submit button.

I guess you could somehow do it with the header commands in PHP but how?

The form:

<form action="payment_window.php" method="post">
<input type="text" value="300" name="amount" />
<input type="text" value="1" name="capture" />
<input type="text" value="885588" name="merchant" />
</form>

What Im thinking is somehow using headers in PHP like:

<--- Some code that set the post data headers --->
header('Location: payment_window.php');
exit;

Best regards

leatherback

Hm.. submitting a form automatically? Do not see the value, but you could to a time-delayed javascript submit? something with settimeout?

Dinky

Well the point is that my payment provide require any settings to the payment window are send through the $_POST variable. Therefore a form is needed. But the system I have build it would be a unnecessary step to hit the submit button that makes the payment processe longer.

I have a working version with javascript. But I don't trust javascript to be particularly safe or reliable at such a vital point in the payment process.

NogDog

[man]cURL[/man]

chrisplaya

Or just use:

So the form is submitted automatically as the page loads.

Chris

leatherback

chrisplaya wrote:
Or just use:

<body onLoad="document.forms[0].submit()">

So the form is submitted automatically as the page loads.

Chris

When dealing with payment information this is tricky, as you give away sensitive information to the people who are looking for it (If I were to think deviously, I can very easily think of a way of getting all the details that are submitted).

Use CURL