[thelist] Forward to new page with POST data (PHP)

[Darrell King]

You know you can just use the Location header to send them to PayPal after
processing their posted form, right?

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

I also found this using Google with "php send post":

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/12039/fid/51

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On 8/27/07, Noah St. Amand <noah at tookish.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to submit POST data to a third party form processor, but also
> forward to the page where the form is processed -- I'm using PHP. For
> example, I'd like to do the following:
>
> 1. build a form on my site that collects data for PayPal (but not the
> credit card information)
>
> 2. submit that form to a PHP script on my site that processes the data
> (and returns to the form if there are any errors)
>
> 3. when the form is processed (and passes the error tests), send an
> email then forward the browser to the PayPal checkout page with all of
> the post data that PayPal needs (and that I've collected in the form)
>
> Both cURL and Snoopy appear to submit the POST data and return the
> resulting information to the script that calls them (please correct me
> if I'm wrong, but everything that I've read suggests that this is how
> they work). What I'd like to do is actually forward the browser to the
> page I'm posting to, along with the POST data.
>
> Does anyone know of a way of doing this?
>
> (By the way, I know that I can submit GET data to PayPal; I've just used
> this as an example -- the actual script I need to get data to won't
> accept it in the query string.)
>
> Thanks,
> Noah
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