uploading form data then submitting form to payment site

[monomaniac21]

Hi all

Can anyone tell me how to submit a form to update its contents to a db
and then from the page the form is submitted to then submit another
form which is the payment processing data for a site such as paypal?

At the moment im having to have users submit the form and then click a
button on successful submission to take them through to payment
processing and i would like to streamline this process to just require
the submission of the details form.

kind regards

marc

[yawnmoth]

monomaniac21 wrote:

Hi all

Can anyone tell me how to submit a form to update its contents to a db
and then from the page the form is submitted to then submit another
form which is the payment processing data for a site such as paypal?

At the moment im having to have users submit the form and then click a
button on successful submission to take them through to payment
processing and i would like to streamline this process to just require
the submission of the details form.

You could use ajax to send the data to yourself and the have the form
submit itself as it normally would. Or you could have PHP take the
data that was resubmitted to it, create a new HTTP request based on
that, and then send the request to paypal or where-ever.

Alternatively, PayPal is supposed to it's own API which, although I've
never examined it, myself, should probably answer all your questions.
Check out: https://developer.paypal.com/

[monomaniac21]

Thanks yawnmoth. the ajax idea sounds interesting. do u of good
tutorials or books on this particular aspect of ajax?

regards

marc
yawnmoth wrote:

monomaniac21 wrote:

Hi all

Can anyone tell me how to submit a form to update its contents to a db
and then from the page the form is submitted to then submit another
form which is the payment processing data for a site such as paypal?

At the moment im having to have users submit the form and then click a
button on successful submission to take them through to payment
processing and i would like to streamline this process to just require
the submission of the details form.

You could use ajax to send the data to yourself and the have the form
submit itself as it normally would. Or you could have PHP take the
data that was resubmitted to it, create a new HTTP request based on
that, and then send the request to paypal or where-ever.

Alternatively, PayPal is supposed to it's own API which, although I've
never examined it, myself, should probably answer all your questions.
Check out: https://developer.paypal.com/

[yawnmoth]

monomaniac21 wrote:

Thanks yawnmoth. the ajax idea sounds interesting. do u of good
tutorials or books on this particular aspect of ajax?

This one seems pretty good:

http://www.lowing.org/ajax/

Knowing a bit about how HTTP works helps, as well.

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

monomaniac21 wrote:

Thanks yawnmoth. the ajax idea sounds interesting. do u of good
tutorials or books on this particular aspect of ajax?

Never use ajax or depend on client posting for payment related
things. You may try "Post2Host" scripts for posting via PHP. Always
there could be easier way to fix any issues; recheck your architecture.

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[Jerry Stuckle]

monomaniac21 wrote:

Hi all

Can anyone tell me how to submit a form to update its contents to a db
and then from the page the form is submitted to then submit another
form which is the payment processing data for a site such as paypal?

At the moment im having to have users submit the form and then click a
button on successful submission to take them through to payment
processing and i would like to streamline this process to just require
the submission of the details form.

kind regards

marc

CURL is an option here.

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