Help with two <form action='s

[Anon]

Hi Guys,
I have what I hope to be a small problem!
I have a HTML page with a form on it, I have it set up to email the information submited to me as well as the individual that is submitting it. Is it possible to have a second <form action = on the same page? I would also like to have the information sent to my MySQL DB. I have a php form already set up to do this from a seperate HTML page, But, I would like to only have to have the form filled in once?

Thanks Guys

[Anon]

Sure why not combine the mail script and the mysql script in the same page ie:

while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)) {
$body .= $key ." = ". $val ."\n";
}
mail($to, $subj, $body, "");

$result = mysql_query(INSERT some stuff);

[Anon]

Hi Louie,
Can I have two <form actions=> In the same HTML page? This is what I have now:

<form action="http://www.web2.li/cgi-bin/FORM/ennyfrms.cgi" method="POST">

I would also like to have the information in this form sent to a DB via this script:

<form action=http://liberty.phpwebhosting.com
/~dbase/submit/.aarpsubmitform.php method=GET>

Can this be done

[Anon]

Michael,

One action per form.

As many forms per page as you desire, but only one will be submitted.

The client cannot hit two URLs at once.

A script may forward information to another script (on another machine) via either POST or GET. For the former method you'll need to write your own code using fsockopen() or use one of the POST method objects that are floating around. For GET, of course, you just invoke fopen() with the appropriate URL.

[Anon]

As Steve said you can't hit two urls at once but it is so easy tyo send email form results with php, why not just combine the two functions intyo one php script, I could help you with that if you are interested

[Anon]

Hi Louie,
Yes I am very interested! Any help is appreciated!

[Anon]

Well first off you will need to know the fields you want emailed, I usualyy use the $HTTP_POST_VARS array to get the fields into the email. The mail function takes three and optionally four parameters. The first os the to address, the 2nd is the subject, the 3rd is the body, you can optionally pass a from and CC variable wit the 4th.

For instance
$to = "[e-mail]";
$subj = "form submission";
$from = "From: [e-mail]";

to set u pthe body I usually loop through the array mentioned above and add to a variable called $body like:
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($HTTP_POST_VARS)) {
$body .= $key ." = ". $val ."\n";
}

if you had two fields in your form named name and email then the body of your email would like
name = Someguy
email = [e-mail]

Now you can enter the fields values into your db like

$result = mysql_query("INSERT into table (name, email) VALUES ('$name', '$email')");

This cann all be done in one script.