How do I Post PHP form data to external and Interneal locations at the same time

You could do this easily with sessions. You call session_start() at the beginning of the login or main page and that form data is then available from any other script you want simply by putting session_start() at the top of those pages. Let me know if you want an example.

As elvin66 suggested I thing using sessions will do the trick. To start using sessions you should place session_start() at the top of your php page, before any line prints an output. Then you can use $_SESSION array to keep your values in the session, for example: $_SESSION['Email']="x@y.com";

When you need the value saved in the session you call the session variable for exampel: echo $_SESSION['Email'];

Sessions we are talking about works on php pages.

I hope this helps.

Kevin

"I would love to do this in as much PHP as possible..."

I would suggest you use PHP CURL in the script http://mydomain.com/index.php  to post the variables in the background to a different php file which could write the variables to a simple text file.

Then http://mydomin.com/thankyou.php.  can read the variables from THAT simple text file

profya: and elvin66:,

      How would I get the variables into the session?  Would I do some sort of "On Submit" code?  The variables we are talking about are not even populated until user clicks submit right?

Any example code?

Thanks guys...

Yes, when a form submitted, its inputs are stored in either $_POST or $_GET array depending on the form's method .... <FORM name=... METHOD=POST ......>

For example if your form is of method POST then when submitted the email input value is $_POST['email'];
for this to work, your form's inputs should have names.

The following send the username and email to the third party by calling silently the external script without changing url (mydomain.com -> notmydomain.com), POST or reload your page.

<script language="javascript">
	function sendNewUser() {
		var xhr; 
		try {
			xhr = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.XMLHTTP');
		}
		catch(e) {
			try {
				xhr = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');
			} 
			catch(e2) {
				try {
					xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
				}
				catch(e3) {
					xhr = false;
				}
			}
		}
		xhr.onreadystatechange = function(){
			if(xhr.readyState  == 4) if(!(xhr.status  == 200)) alert("Error code " + xhr.status);
		}
		var data = "name=" + document.getElementById("textboxUsername") + "&email=" + document.getElementById("textboxEmail");
		xhr.open("POST", "http://notmydomain.com/myAR.php", true);
		xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");                  
		xhr.send(data);
	}
</script>

                                              

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For more information about sessions: http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.session.php
And for more information about forms: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_forms.asp

I hope this helps.

Kevin: If you want to post the code you're using now, perhaps we can give you a concrete solution.  Or you might want to adapt something like this.  Best, ~Ray

<?php // RAY_post_to_multiple_pages.php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
echo "<pre>\n"; 
// Q: HOW CAN I HAVE A FORM THAT POSTS TO MORE THAN ONE ACTION SCRIPT?
// A: USE A CANONICAL SCRIPT TO RE-POST THE DATA TO THE OTHER ACTION SCRIPTS. 
 
// THE LIST OF URLS AND ACTION SCRIPTS - USE AS MANY AS NEEDED - DIFFERENT NAMES, ETC
$target["www.laprbass.com"] = 'RAY_bounce_post.php';
$target["www.laprbass.com"] = 'RAY_bounce_post.php';
// NOTE IN THIS EXAMPLE THERE IS ONLY ONE ADDITIONAL SCRIPT - ARRAY OVERWRITES 
 
// THIS IS THE CANONICAL ACTION SCRIPT - IS ANYTHING POSTED?
if (!empty($_POST))
{
    // IF SO, REPACKAGE IT TO GO TO THE SUBSIDIARY SCRIPTS
    $repost = '';
    foreach ($_POST as $key => $val) // ASSEMBLE KEY=VAL PAIRS
    {
        $repost .= $key . '=' . urlencode(stripslashes($val)) . '&';
    }
    $repost = rtrim($repost, '&');   // REMOVE THE LAST AMPERSAND 
    // ITERATE OVER THE TARGET SCRIPTS POSTING TO EACH ONE
    foreach ($target as $url => $page)
    {
        // SET UP POST DATA - NOTE VARS $url $page strlen($repost)
        $header = '';
        $header .= "POST /$page HTTP/1.0\r\n";
        $header .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
        $header .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($repost) . "\r\n\r\n"; 
        // OPEN THE SOCKET TO THE REMOTE PAGE
        $fp = fsockopen ($url, 80, $errno, $errstr, 30); 
        // TEST FOR VERIFICATION
        if (!$fp) // HTTP ERROR
        {
            die("ERROR: fsockopen() FAILED \n ERRNO=$errno \n ERRSTR=$errstr \n");
        } 
        // HTTP OPEN - WRITE HEADER AND POST REQUEST
        fputs ($fp, $header . $repost); 
        // HTTP OPEN - READ RESPONSE, DISCARDING HEADERS TO THE VERY END (UNLESS YOU CARE)
        $replies = '';
        $headers = '';
        while (!feof($fp))
        {
            $replies  = fgets ($fp, 1024);
            echo "\n$replies"; // SHOW RETURNING HEADERS
            $headers .= $replies;
        }
        fclose ($fp); 
        // SHOW THE BROWSER OUTPUT REPLIES, IF ANY, FROM THE REMOTE SCRIPTS
        echo "\n$url $page $replies"; 
    } // END OF ITERATOR OVER TARGET SCRIPTS
    echo "\n"; 
// END OF PHP - PUT UP THE HTML FORM
}
?>
<form method="post">
TYPE SOMETHING: <input name="thing_one" />
SOMETHING ELSE: <input name="thing_two" />
SEND RESPONSES: <input name="email" /> (YOUR EMAIL)
<input type="submit" value="MULTI-POST" />
</form>

                                              

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Try this: Place the following code on the page that the form is being posted to. For eg: if the form is posting back to it'self then place it on the forms page.

<?php
session_start();
if(is_array($_REQUEST)) {
              foreach($_REQUEST as $key => $value) {
                        $_SESSION[$key]      = $value;
              }
      }

//Check to see if the 2nd form has been submitted (reset) this destroys the session

if($_SESSION['reset'] == 1){
session_destroy();
header("location: session.php");
}

// now put a form on here
$form1 = "<form>Username : <input type='text' name='username' value='".$_SESSION['username']."'><br>Password : <input type='password' name='password' value='".$_SESSION['password']."'><br><br><input type='submit' value='login'></form>";

$form2 = "<form><input type='hidden' name='reset' value='1'><input type='submit' value='reset'></form>";


echo $form1;
echo "<br><br>".$form2;
echo "<br><br>";
if(!empty($_SESSION['username'])){
echo "Username is ".$_SESSION['username'];
}
if(!empty($_SESSION['password'])){
echo "<br>Password is ".$_SESSION['password'];
}

?>

//Try the form and submit it. You will notice the form fields remain filled in. That is because we gave them values from the session variables like $_SESSION['username'] etc.....

To take it further, create another page and save it as whatever name you like. Put this code in it.

<?php
session_start();

if(!empty($_SESSION['username'])){
echo "Username is ".$_SESSION['username'];
}
if(!empty($_SESSION['password'])){
echo "<br>Password is ".$_SESSION['password'];
}

?>

// Now when you load that page after submitting the form on the first page, you should see those variables. You can use them anywhere as long as you have a session_start() on the top of the page under the <?php tag and before ANY output to the browser.



// That's all there is to it !
Hope that helps...

Thanks everyone for your help, Just got home from work and tried Ray_Paseur's code first.
I got an error, so I tried to remove one of the URL's but still get the below error when I submit:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:17:43 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

I am only using one Target URL for testing.

The code is below:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" />
<title>TYPE SOMETHING</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php // RAY_post_to_multiple_pages.php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
echo "<pre>\n";
// Q: HOW CAN I HAVE A FORM THAT POSTS TO MORE THAN ONE ACTION SCRIPT?
// A: USE A CANONICAL SCRIPT TO RE-POST THE DATA TO THE OTHER ACTION SCRIPTS.

// THE LIST OF URLS AND ACTION SCRIPTS - USE AS MANY AS NEEDED - DIFFERENT NAMES, ETC
$target["Admin_Edit_VM.com"] = 'indexX.php';
// $target["Admin_Edit_VM.com"] = 'subscribe.php';
// NOTE IN THIS EXAMPLE THERE IS ONLY ONE ADDITIONAL SCRIPT - ARRAY OVERWRITES

// THIS IS THE CANONICAL ACTION SCRIPT - IS ANYTHING POSTED?
if (!empty($_POST))
{
// IF SO, REPACKAGE IT TO GO TO THE SUBSIDIARY SCRIPTS
$repost = '';
foreach ($_POST as $key => $val) // ASSEMBLE KEY=VAL PAIRS
{
$repost .= $key . '=' . urlencode(stripslashes($val)) . '&';
}
$repost = rtrim($repost, '&'); // REMOVE THE LAST AMPERSAND
// ITERATE OVER THE TARGET SCRIPTS POSTING TO EACH ONE
foreach ($target as $url => $page)
{
// SET UP POST DATA - NOTE VARS $url $page strlen($repost)
$header = '';
$header .= "POST /$page HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($repost) . "\r\n\r\n";
// OPEN THE SOCKET TO THE REMOTE PAGE
$fp = fsockopen ($url, 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
// TEST FOR VERIFICATION
if (!$fp) // HTTP ERROR
{
die("ERROR: fsockopen() FAILED \n ERRNO=$errno \n ERRSTR=$errstr \n");
}
// HTTP OPEN - WRITE HEADER AND POST REQUEST
fputs ($fp, $header . $repost);
// HTTP OPEN - READ RESPONSE, DISCARDING HEADERS TO THE VERY END (UNLESS YOU CARE)
$replies = '';
$headers = '';
while (!feof($fp))
{
$replies = fgets ($fp, 1024);
echo "\n$replies"; // SHOW RETURNING HEADERS
$headers .= $replies;
}
fclose ($fp);
// SHOW THE BROWSER OUTPUT REPLIES, IF ANY, FROM THE REMOTE SCRIPTS
echo "\n$url $page $replies";
} // END OF ITERATOR OVER TARGET SCRIPTS
echo "\n";
// END OF PHP - PUT UP THE HTML FORM
}
?>
<form method="post">
SOMETHING ELSE: <input name="fullname" />
SEND RESPONSES: <input name="email" /> (YOUR EMAIL)
<input type="submit" value="MULTI-POST" />
</form>
</body>

</html>

Sessions is much less coding and easier to read for me anyway.

elvin66,

    I think you are right and session vars are the way to go,  How can I use those session variables to autopost to another php page? Like on page load or somthing.

    If I'm not wrong your code allows me to only post to one page?  How do I post that data automatically to the 2nd page?


Kevin