Re: Can a form submit to two PHP form processers in succession?

From: Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 23:13:19 +0000
Subject: Re: Can a form submit to two PHP form processers in succession?
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>Hi, > >I'm not sure how to do this but I have a form which I wish to do the following. > >When the uses clicks the "submit button", I wish to perform a check where I >look for a value in a MySQL database. If found, I need >to return an error page telling the user that the value already exists. I >assume that I can just POST to a PHP page that performs >the check. > >If the value was not found, I would like to POST the results to a PHP form >handling script I use. > >The above tow are separate PHP documents that are not connected. In >essence, it is akin to one form processing page handing off the >information to another page. Can this be done in PHP? In addition to the other worthy solutions, there is a "posttohost" function out there that Rasmus wrote ages ago in PHP. It will let you POST any data you like to any web-form you can visit. Quite handy. :-) Google for "Rasmus Lerdorf and PostToHost" -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm

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