Process a command before action/post

[Anon]

After pressing a submit button in a form,
is it possible to execute a line of code before (ie PHP email function) going to next page (ie action=nextpage.php)?

1-press submit
2-email some info
3-proceed to next page

If I have do this with JavaScript (if PHP alone won't work) will I lose my posted data if nextpage is not called directly from the form tag?

Thanks

[cordex]

You could insert a buffer page that's only purpose is to email the information to you and then forward you to the next page but you'd have to submit the variables via the get method and that could cause a problem or two depending on your set-up.

-Ben

[kparker]

Do you have control over the page that is the target of the submit? If so, just add code there to email anything you need. If not (i.e. the actual page receiving the data is hosted by some third party) then Ben's suggestion is probably necessary.

[Anon]

Kirk

I do have partial control over the receiving page but the secure site that hosts it does not support PHP.

Bill

[farzal]

Partial control should be good enough to add an include(email.php) or require(email.php) in your receiving file.

[kparker]

Not if that site doesn't support PHP! He'll have to follow some variant of Ben's method; though GET isn't absolutely required he's willing to hand-code a http POST request using fsockopen()--or use CURL if the target site is secure.