PHP :: Form Submission (no Button) Using PHP+cURL+ Transfer Control To Other Site

Automating Page Navigation And Control Transfer
Is there a system available to do the following:
consider an app of a few pages:

page1.php:
form1----->page3.php
form2----->page4.php

page2.php:
form3----->page3.php
form4----->page4.php

when I am at page3.php, I do not know whether I came there from
page1->form1 or page2->form3.
I can check for $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] and get an answer. But this
example is simple. Let us generailze that I want an app that keeps a
track of all the pages the user requested, in the order that they were
sent to him.

Obviously, it can be written based on sessions. Is there already some
popular open source application for this?

Also, this brings me to a broader question of page navigation rules. In
an app made of 20-50 pages/scripts, life will be hell if there is no
systematic approach to transferring control between pages. Is there
some kind of structure already made and readily available into which
you just plug-in your pages by telling some rules ?

E.g. the scheme is something like:
$ListOfPages = array(
1=>"Main.php",
2=>"Edit.php",
3->"Add.php",
..........,
N->"Error.php");

$RuleSet = array(
1=>array("Main.php","Edit.php","allow_edit"),
2=>array("Main.php","Add.php","allow_add"),
...................
3=>array("Main.php","Error.php","my_error_handler")
);
The RuleSet is a set of page transfer rules based on evaluation to true
of the specified functions, i.e., allow_edit(), allow_add(),
my_error_handler() etc.
Obviously, form submission is the chief means of control transfer for
PHP programs and the use of ?op=add_something in URL's(GET) and <input
type=hidden name=op value=add_something> (POST) are a step towards
making some kind of structure.

So the grand code will look like:
$MyGrandAppControllerObj = new GrandAppControllerObj();
$MyGrandAppControllerObj->setPages($ListOfPages);
$MyGrandAppControllerObj->setRules($RuleSet);
$MyGrandAppControllerObj->Run();

Site Jump During Submission
1)I'am collecting form data on my server from a HTML form.

The next steps Iam trying to figure out is:

2) I want to then go to another site (payment site)

3) then back to my site.

4) extract original data gathered from step 1

I know the simple method would be to go to pay site first then to my site. However I would like my form first! I also do not want to write the data into mysql in step 1. Not until step 4.

Server-Side Form Submission - Form Submits To Form, Which Autosubmits. BAD!
I have a php form from which the user fills out their name and address and clicks "Submit".

The form goes to a page that stores the data in a mySQL database, then, using hidden fields, populates another form and actives with a javascript onLoad=submit() to send the information on to the final destination.

I cannot control or edit the final destinations web page, which is why the interim page is needed.

What I would like is for the user to fill out the form, and upon submission have the data recorded into the database and have the data passed on in a "form like way" on to the final destination BY THE SERVER, not by the use of a hidden form page that auto submits.

Any suggestions?

Here is the interim page's code below:

<?
$link = @mysql_connect($db_host_name, $db_name, $the_decoded_password) or die;
@mysql_select_db($db_name) or die;

$query = "INSERT INTO web_link VALUES ('', '$a', '$b', '$c','$d', '$e', '$f', '$g', '$h')";
$result = @mysql_query($query) or die;
?>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body onLoad="document.contactme.submit();">
<form name="contactme" method="post" action="http://www.test.com/cgi/storethisdata" >
print "<input type="hidden" name="first_name" value="$first_name"><br>";
print "<input type="hidden" name="last_name" value="$last_name"><br>";
print "<input type="hidden" name="email" value="$email"><p>";
print "<input type="hidden" name="phone" value="$phone"><p>";
?>
</form>
</body>

</html>

Upload File Having Browse Button And Submit Button On Same Form
I am building a form where the user must upload a picture and fill in his
details.
Now I have a problem as all of this is on the same form.

How will I be able to have the Browse button to open the "file browse"
dialog
and the Submit button to submit the form data.

As I believe you can not use GET but must use POST method for form.
Is there any means that I can use GET cause I need to get form variables
from URL as well.

Form Submission Fills Form Values With Garbage
I'm attempting to do some form processing on a server that has register_globals off, however, I've run into a confusing situation and need some help.

Basically, the form is a multi-part/form-data form as I have it upload a file in addition to submit a number of other fields, but the error I have occurs even when no upload is done.

When I submit the form, all my input field variables get filled with garbage. Here's the html before submission for one of the fields: Code:

Form Self Submission
I have a form which I am trying to have submit to itself, but change 1 var so that it changes what is printed. how can i do this so it works? Code:

Form Submission
I print out the following after I submit a button. How can i print the following two buttons in the previous form which I'm submitting.Of course, these two buttons should appear only after the form is submitted. Code:

Form Submission
I have an event calendar. Users submit thier events and then I also allow them to edit thier entries. When they edit an event, that recorded is stored in a different table. I then go in and view the record. When I submit it, it updates the main table.

Below is the code for viewing the edited info. On some records the submit button doesn't work? I click on it and nothing happens? Why would this happen? PHP Code:

Form Submission
I am working on a PHP based web-site which is running a text based war game. So, there are lots of forms users need to submit. One of the form players submits is to ‘attack’ other player (not physically though). For that, player needs to fill out a form (let say this form is on the script1) having two or three input text fields.

After filling out the form user clicks on submit button which then calls (let say script 2) .This script 2 then does all the logic, modifies the database according to who won the attack , calls back the script 1 with the result to be shown to the player. But what is happening right now is that players are abusing the game by clicking the submit buttons or hitting (enter/return) key multiple times(very very quickly), although they are allowed to attack as many times as they want but not before the last attack is done means until they got the result of last attack.

They are clicking submit buttons before the last submission updates the database. Is there any way once the player submits the form, they cannot submit it again until the script 1(containing the form) gets reloaded again with the result. Also each script is a PHP Script. I hope I explained my problem. I heard there is way u can do it with JScript but what if they disable their Jscript.

Form Submission
On my three development boxes I run Gentoo, BSD and Windows with practically the same PHP config along with Apache 2. A project I recently completed was just uploaded to a client's server running Apache 2 and PHP (5.2.1). I can no longer submit any data from forms: Code:

Form Submission
I need help with this form submission, i understand for submission is the easiest thing to do in php. But i just can't get this to work.

Basically i have a form in which is a question. I have given users choice of 4 answers to this question in a dropdown menu. I just want the form to recognise what answer the user has chosen and put it into a table called support and the column 'category' in it. Code:

Form Value Submission Problems
I'm having a little problem with my php in that when I
submit a value with more than one word from a form, (for example,
"Cineworld Renfrew Street"), only the first word seems to get
submitted, so that when processing it after submission, only
"Cineworld" is available. Is there a way I should be formatting form
values to prevent this?

How Do I Stop A Form Submission
I have the below code. It has a member number input box. Once a member number is entered, it validates the number against a member number in a table. If the member number is a valid number, it will submit the form, if it is not a valid number it redirects the user to a signup page. But it is not working, it is submitting always. Code:

Submission Form To Fax Machine, Is It Possible?
I got quite a question here, is it possible that from a submission form on a website the results get faxed throught the webiste directly to a fax machine? I would really appreciate any insight on this concept. And where to start.

The Woes Of A PHP Form Submission
Good evening to the skilled Ladies and Gentlemen of the PHP world. I
am fairly new to all of this but learning quickly. I have run in to a
need to remove blank lines from a form submission after its sent back
to the web server for processing by a PHP document.

I have a textarea that users can paste lines of text in to and submit
them for inclusion in to a database. Every aspect is working
perfectly, except one. No matter what I try, I cannot get rid of
simple blank lines from the form submission.

$theLines = $HTTP_POST_VARS['userSubmitted'];

This variable ($theLines) now contains the contents from the textarea.
I have tried using ...

$theLines = explode("
", $theLines);

and

$theLines = explode("
", $theLines);

But all of the blank lines are still there. If anyone has some
snippet that they would share, I would be very grateful.

Why Php Doesn't Transfer Variable Submitted By Web Form?
I had previously installed php-4.3.9 and apache-2.0.49 on my solaris9
server and written a php script for user login, it ran well until
today...

today for some reasons I upgraded php to php-5.1.2, complied as
apache's DSO module, and I found the script couldn't work when being
accessed by IE. I didn't know why...It seemed php script hadn't
transfered variables submmitted by web form to itself...now the
following is my script:

<?php
if ($queryflag == 1) {
$ybn="admin";
$ybp="111";
$ybusername=$_POST["username"];
$ybuserpwd=$_POST["password"];
if ($ybusername==$ybn AND $ybuserpwd==$ybp){
session_start();
$_SESSION["admin"]=true;
header("location: testtest.php");
} else {
echo <<<EOM
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312">
<title>login</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>

Php Login To Other Site Using Curl
I want to use php to login to another site and then go to that site using the screen name I was logged into and view a webpage on that site and submit a form and searching for text.

Disabling Enter Key For Form Submission
Could anyone please help me with tips on how to disable a ENTER key, so that a form is submitted only when the designated button for submission is clicked.

Display Of " And ' From Form Submission
I have single and double quotes in the text field which is submitted on one page. When I display this on the next page I see ' and " in place of ' and " respectively.

Bug In IE5+ Involving Form Submission & Images With '?' In URL
I have been experiencing problems with images containing query strings in their URLs. When I land on a page containing these images having submitted a form they don't appear. I heard this is an IE bug. Is there a quickish workaround using PHP? I tried processing the form(s) with an intermediate script, then redirecting to the destination page but still no images.

PHP Form Submission Data Errors
One of my variables "link1" that is storing a bunch of urls is having random
lines being duplicated on form submission. I just recently swithed servers
from a PHP 4.3.3 to a 4.2.2 version. This error has only started appearing
on the new machine. The script worked fine on the old server and still does
on the test server. Any ideas? I think it might have to do with the ini
config. i am stumped. here is a link to my code.

Disallowing Multiple Submission Of A Form
i have a dynamic form that sends data to a mysql table. it sends data into the table according to variables that are passed in. e.g. form.php?book_title=abc

how do i block the user from sending information about the same "book_title" more than once?

Updating Text In Form Submission
I am using a text area form submission to add imformation to a html webpage, and I would like to be able to edit that text in the php form at a later date after submission.
Does anyone know how to get the origonal text back into the form text area for editting and resubmission?

Trouble With Mailing A Form Submission
I recently had to move all my php pages and MySQL db to a new server and may have overlooked a setting or two in the php.ini or somewhere else. This form worked up until the move. Here's the code:

Form Submission And Include Files
I have an index page that I want to put an e-mail newsletter signup form on. I have the form inside another page called "misc.php" that is included in the index page. So far so good. When someone submits the form, though, which page do I send the POST to? When I send it to index.php the misc.php page seems to not get the variables.

And of course if I send it to itself it works fine, but it takes me to another page, which I don't want. This is very strange.

Capturing Results Of A Form Submission
Is it possible, in PHP, to capture the resulting HTML of a submitted
form returning from a server and incorporate that HTML into say a
table, or some predefined layout?

I am trying to incorporate the resulting HTML into a layout I have
created in order to keep the look & feel of my site consistent, but
the resulting page is a plain "cheesy" page.

Encrypt Form Variables During Submission?
I've been looking around the net for a solution (I'm pretty new to php) on how to encrypt a form variable before you submit it, is this possible?

To give you an idea, I have a "change your password" type form and when the user enters their new password and clicks submit the password is sent out in the open before it's encrypted (md5) and put into the database. I'd like to encrypt it BEFORE I send it though. I plan on using SSL but I'd also like to see if what I'm trying is even possible.

Coding A Form From Email Submission
I have a customer who wants his contact page customized to be a form with questions to be answered by the person trying to contact him. When they are done filling in the form it is suppose to be emailed to him. I can not get this form to work right. Code:

Prevent URL's In Form Submission
I need a way to prevent URL's from being inserted into form fields. I have not been able to discover how to do this. Our forms are being submitted with junk URL's in the form fields. I would like to either A) Kill the form processing if URL's are posted, or B) Provide a pop up message stating that URL submissions are not allowed.

Creating A Tag Cloud Submission Form
I have recently redesigned a clip dump script and I am trying to add the ability for people to submit tags for their items. Here is what I have done so far. Code:

Posting A File To A Site With Curl
How do you post a file to a form with curl?

CURL To Pull Data From A Site
I've been using php and cURL to pull data from a site, and things worked just fine. however, when i used the same script to access a different site, not data is being returned. however, i can go to the url of the site being used and there is clearly html there which should theoretically be scraped. any idea why it is not being gathered and how can i fix this?

Site Login Withn CUrl
I am trying to automate a submission I do daily.

Manually, I access a page of the type https://www.signin.example.com/loginForm.html. When I fill the username / password, I am automatically redirected to another https page, of the type https://home.example.com and the page confirms that I am logged in, from there on I can update my posting.

When I am logged in, there are 2 cookies set on my computer, one by home.example.com and one by signin.example.com.

When I log out both cookies are gone.

Now, I am trying to automate that login, and I am using the following script as example: http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/php/examples/?ex=ebay_login.php

Here is my code:

$id = "id";
$password = "password";
$cookie_file_path = "absolute_server_path/httpdocs/cookiejar/";
$LOGINURL = "https://www.signin.example.com/loginForm.html";
$agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)";
$POSTFIELDS = 'UserName='.$id.'&hiddenVar1=hiddenVar1Value&UserPass='.$password;

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$LOGINURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); // this line makes it work under https

$result=curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

echo("Results: <br>".$result);

//post info for login
$LOGINURL = "https://www.signin.example.com/loginForm.html";
$reffer = "https://www.signin.example.com/loginForm.html";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$LOGINURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$POSTFIELDS);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $reffer);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

echo("Results: <br>".$result);

When I run this code, I don't even get the output from the las echo statement (Results: <br> ...), as the server I query automatically redirects me to the same login page https://www.signin.example.com/loginForm.html, but with no error messages or explanations.

Now, as you can see I attempt to have the cookies created in a folder on my web server, using an absolute path absolute_server_path/httpdocs/cookieJar. Can this be one of the problems, does the cookieJar have to sit in my httpsdocs folder instead of the httpdocs? I set the absolute_server_path/httpdocs/cookiejar/ folder to 997 I believe.

Also, when I post the info for login in the second part of the code, I am not sure if $LOGINURL should be https://www.signin.example.com or https://www.home.example.com?

Also, I am not comfortable wit cUrl at all yet, so I am doing something else wrong.

Multiple Attachments In An Email Sent From Form Submission
Currently the user selects a document to download, fills in their details and hits submit. They get the file emailed to them, and I get an email telling me their details and which document they downloaded.

However, I'd like the user to be able to select multiple documents (using tick boxes maybe) to be emailed in one mail. There might be 5 documents up there eventually and they could download as many of them as they want.

Would anyone be able to take a nose at the code below and tell me how it might be adapted for multiple attachments? I was thinking maybe to loop the attachment section, but I don't know how to do it, or what variable to use to come out of the loop. Code:

A Mystery (how To Mimic Form Submission With Headers)
I have this simple html form with only one field and a
submit button which uses the POST method. It works
fine.

I have been trying to learn php headers and found that
one could do exactly the same thing using headers.
Using ieHTTPHeaders v 1.6 - agreat FREE utility - one
can see the headers being sent when the form is
submitted, and then the php script with headers is
written.

It has worked fine always but in this particular case
although the headers are sent correctly .. the form
field value for some reason is not accepted by the
server. I was wondering if there are variables
(predefined variables) that are required by the server
but not being included in the headers.

Has anyone come across a similar problem?
How could one mimic the browser 100% - including all
the browsers predefined / environment variables?

Unable To Login And Post To A Site Via Curl
There is a social bookmarking site here: http:// onlywire.com that I'm
trying to login and post to via curl.

It's using ajax and I haven't been able to figure out how to post to
it so far.

This is actually the first time I've ever seen a page that I can't
post to with curl.

CURL Installation Cannot Access Https Site
I am experiencing problems trying to make my curl works. For all other sites, i could able to execute request successfully. However for https site, i received an error vias "curl_error()" method: "Cannot connect to host".

I have compiled curl
--with-ssl=/usr/local/ssl

and PHP with
--with-curl=/usr/local
--with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl

Passing Control Onto Another Form
I am working with a payment gateway, which sends its response with a specific php page.

Lets say response.php, with parameter ?val=data. ie http://abc.com/response.php?val=data.

On this php page, I want to perform some processing, but ultimately dont want to display any html form with this page. I need some way to perform my processing on this php page, then immediately redirect to another php to display the next form, with the results. Can anyone advise on how this is achieved?

So for example, I want it to then invoke display.php?mode=1&conf=1, which has the formal display with all the results. All this with NO user input.

"Content-Transfer-Encoding: In Case You Are Sending A Form In The Mail Body
can anyone tell me what should be the "Content-Transfer-Encoding: in case you are sending a form in the mail body"

Keep Control While Passing Form Entries
I have the following code in an intermediate file, separate.php, passing values from a form to a receiving file: form -> separate.php file -> vendor's receiving file

<?php
$url="https://receivingsite.com/receive.jsp?";
foreach($_POST as $key => $value){
$url .="$key=" . urlencode($value) . "&";}
header ("Location: $url");?>

I place other code (all working), ahead of the code in question. Then, the portion of the other code that sends an email to me containing the values from the form, still does that. The portion of the other code that opens another page, does not open it any more.

Instead, a nuisance (to me) confirmation page generated by the vendor's receiving file opens instead of the page I specified in my other code. This is the part of the other code that does not open any more:

print "<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://mywebsite.com/next.htm">";
I have to send to their receiving file with the confirmation page because the regular one they designed for this purpose (no confirmation page) requires that the form's redirect field be included, and that is a problem to me (not to most of their customers) because I have two buttons in the form going to two different pages, instead of one button like all their other customers would have.

The receiving file (confirmation page) that I have to send to was designed with a different use in mind, but I have to send to it because the regular one must receive a form field that I do not want to include. So it seems that I need to replace header ("Location: $url"); with something else, or make some other change or addition.

CURL Form Posting To Self Referencing Form Action
I've successfully used CURL to maneuver around and through sites
but a new site I've been trying to work with has got me stumped.

To retrieve the data I'm trying to get a login is required. If
you go to any page in the "member" area without logging in you
get directed to a https connection and hit login.php (ie: you
end up at https://www.domain.com/login.php). The problem, I
believe, lies in the fact that the form on that page references
itself in the form action tag.

The action tag in the form is "/login.php" and nothing I've tried
has been successful in getting CURL to actually submit the data
and get me logged in. Not surprising really since you'd normally
point CURL to the action target to pass form data.

The things I've tried so far without luck are:

* Hit the main site page to pick up the session cookie then go
to one of the "member" only pages

* Gone directly to one of the "member" pages to get redirected
to login.php

Both attempts end up simply returning me the contents of the
login.php page which, obviously, doesn't help or do any good.

What isn't clear from the CURL documentation with PHP is whether
or not the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS get passed to pages after a redirect
takes place. I suspect they are but the fact that login.php
refers back to itself seems to be the real problem.

If anyone has any ideas on how to convince CURL to get me past
login.php or any other suggestions on things I could try I would
very much appreciate it.

Post Form With Field Containing "curl Curl"
I have a form that posts and 1 field is for a suburb, 1 of the suburbs in our area is "curl curl".

When ever this is entered we get an error message "You don't have permission to access".

PHP Form Submission <input Type="hidden"> Security Issues?
Someone has said to me that when using a form (method = post), that storing data in "hidden" tags

ie <input type="hidden" name="myField" value="something">
means that the user can set the value to whatever they like

So my questions are:

1. How would they do this
2. How can I stop it
3. Do I have to abandon the hidden values and go with sessions?

Form Submit Button
Should be a quickie but I just can't get it to work.

I have a form where my users can submit their football picks, when they
click submit I would like another sized window to appear (mnf_scores.htm)
where they can submit a total score for the Monday night football game each
week. From the research I've done I think I need the following:

// If this is change picks, output the submit button and close the form
if ($userfunc==1) {
echo "<p><input type="submit" value="Submit Your Picks!"
onclick="window.open('mnf_scores.htm','MNF Scores')"/></p>
</form>
";
}

But that just doesn't seem to work. The submit part works but the subsequent
window is not opened.

Preview Form Button
What I want to do is print all the values entered in a form for the user without the form text. Then it should let them submit the form from this "preview screen." The problem is that that form loses the values on the preview page for the finish button. Does everyone just create hidden inputs to do this, or is there an easier way?

Form Button Click Itself.
is it possible that on a php script that i can make the form button click itself.

so i have a button that when a certain argument happens i want to click on itself thus resetting itself and doing the php script associated with the button being clicked the php is on a form on php self. know it sounds strange but i have some coding that needs to reset itself and only does that when the button is clicked just want a work around. failing that is it possible to use jave to achive this.

2 Submit Button In A Form
2 buttons - update and delete as submit button. I cant use the $_POST or $_GET METHOD as it cant use.

Before the form is submited, it is required for fields validation. validation will be done by the client side. How can i skip doing with the POST and GET method.

Download A File From A Form Button
I can't get a form coding to recognize a download.php to download a file to
the client. I need the edits of the form for a MySQL table, but the
following form code only wants to download 'download.php' and won't access
download.php so the code can take affect. How can the action item call
download.php?

<form name="form1" method="post" action="download.php"
onSubmit="

MM_validateForm('LastName','','R');MM_validateForm ('email','','NisEmail');
MM_validateForm('email','','R');
MM_validateForm('FirstName','','R');
return document.MM_returnValue">
<p><b><font size="3">First Name:</font></b>
<input type="text" name="FirstName" maxlength="50" size="30">
<font size="3"><b> Last Name:</b></font>
<input type="text" name="LastName" maxlength="50" size="30">
</p>
eMail:
<input type="text" name="email" size="40" maxlength="50">
</b></p>
<input type="submit" value="Download" />
</form>