PHP POST variables question

Anon

Hi everyone,

I'm working on something just now which requires me to send form contents to two scripts at once, on PHP, one perl.

This is a form to sign up to a mailing list. Our server host has a very good off-the-shelf mailing list manager which we're using. To subscribe to that, the form tag is this :

But, that just adds the email address to the mailing list. What I need to do is take the other form values and use PHP to pass them to mySQL.

I've tried this instead, and the browser just hangs - having the form submit to a PHP page which passes the data into mySQL, but also does this :

$url = "http://premiertools.proteusweb.com/public_scripts/mailing.pl?command=subscribe&user=palokefo&list=oakenfold&thq_page=http://www.pauloakenfold.com/listthanks.html&email=$email";
$fp = fopen($url,"r");

but, as I say, this just hangs.

So, is there an easy way to pass post variables to another page (in this case a perl script) without the browser actuall redirecting anywhere? Or is there a simpler way to do this?

Thanks in advance,

Kerin

junebug

try changing the $url line with this:

header("Location: http://yoururlhere");

or you could use the system() command if you have access to the script locally.

http://www.php.net/system