Form post to several locations

Anon

Is it possible to have a form post data to more than one page?

Thanks
C.

knickerlas

No. Not as far as I'm aware.
What's the purpose?

Nick

Anon

Long story short, I've got about 8 scripts that I need to submit the same data to each one. I currently can't rewrite the scripts to suit my needs so I thought if I could have one form submit the data to each script I could do my job in 1/8th the time!! (and keep it to myself naturally 🙂 )

knickerlas

Hmm... Tricky, I'm sure you can do it somehow though and I'll follow the thread with interest.

Nick

Anon

There is one way, though it's probably not going to work for what you want to do.

You can make the submit button into a regualr button and hae it call a javascript function which changes the "action" and "target" of the form and submits multiple times.

Of course, then you would have to have the target be another window (or another frame if it is in frames). Then there would be the problem of whether the php script finished processing before the next post went off. You could avoid that with 8 popups or 8 other frames, but as you see, it gets kind of silly at this point.

Good luck with your problem.

amcgrath

If the 8 scripts you have are on that same machine, why don't u just include each right after another, passing a var to suppress any displays to the screen from these 8? So, basically, the form posts to spreader.php which is nothing more than 8 includes and display code...if they're remote files, that's a lil more trickier, using curl() among other things...

Anon

Not directly, but you can use a intermediate PHP script that can post to several other scripts. I stole this function from somewhere (can't remember where!):

function PostToHost($host, $path, $data_to_send)
{
$fp = fsockopen($host, 80);
fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.1\n");
fputs($fp, "Host: $host\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-length: ".strlen($data_to_send)."\n");
fputs($fp, "Connection: close\n\n");
fputs($fp, $data_to_send);
fclose($fp);
}

WHERE
$host is the server host (www.somehost.com)

$path is the script path (/cgi-bin/script.pl)

$data_to_send is the post data (don't include the ?, build this variable as if you are sending the data through a URL: field1=somedata&field2=moredata)

Just build the $data_to_send variable for each script you want to post to and call the function.

Jon

Anon

That looks pretty good, one question though, what happens to the output from the scripts??

Anon

Any resulting script output is sent back to your script. You can echo it or set it to a variable if you like (the posted script just ignores it):

Append the following just before the fclose($fp); statement:

while(!feof($fp))
{
echo fgets($fp, 128);

or $output .= fgets($fp,128);

}

Jon