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Posted by pengypenguin on 12/16/71 11:56
What I did was to create a dummy action in the post form, and use a
javascript function to swap in a new action and then call the submit
method based on the onclick of different buttons.
-- whit
axlq wrote:
> How do I create a form that two submit buttons, where each one
> submits the form input data to a different server?
>
> Consider this situation: I have a form where users can check various
> options to subscribe to a service, and each option costs a certain
> amount. When the form is submitted, my php script totals up the
> options. Fine.
>
> The form has 2 submit buttons: "print invoice" and "pay by credit
> card."
>
> The "print invoice" button is for those businesses who can't pay by
> credit card but must mail us a check instead; they print an invoice
> for their accounts payable department. The php script generates the
> invoice based on the form inputs. Easy, no problem.
>
> The problem is "pay by credit card." The total cost from submitted
> input fields must be POSTed to a different server: our credit card
> processor.
>
> This isn't a problem if the credit card processor accepts the
> form input data as a GET string in the URL; all I'd do is
> header("Location: $url"); to redirect the user to the credit card
> processor page which handles the payment. The problem is I need
> to do this by POSTing the form input data, while at the same time
> retain the ability to generate invoices from MY server using the
> same form.
>
> I can't think of an elegant way to do this except to have two
> different payment pages each with their own form. Or maybe force
> everybody to generate an invoice as the first step, and after that
> point they can choose to pay it by credit card.
>
> -A
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