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I have one form I want to submit to a php page for processing. I have another form that I want to send to a credit card gateway. Both are in the same document. I only want one submit button. Any ideas?

I don't ever remember having done this or even reading about it before, even though it seems like something basic.

Sometimes I still have to say my alphabet to figure out whether p comes before or after o and where q is in the equation.

Let me know.

Can't really be done. (kinda)

Theoretically you could spawn a child window and have that submit to one place and the original page can go to a second place but that's not really a good user experience

What you should be doing is have the php page doing both actions, is there some reason you can't?



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why dont you youst use one form sending one part of the form to the db and the others to the credit card gateway??? thats how i would tri it

As I think Blacknight [edit: and bitdamaged ] was getting at - couldn't you just have a page which collects all the goodies from the form then process one part and then do the credit card processing after that?

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Hey I said that too

Maybe to help things out I know when I was developing a commerce site I had a similar issue, the site was developed in PHP but I had to use a perl script for my credit card processing. What I did was use an exec command to call the perl script and process the results



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I dunno. I have my action for the form going to the confirmation page. I don't know how I would send the appropriate form info to the gateway and then run the confirmation page. I've never had to do that before.

I think the problem I am having is imagining how I would get the information to submit to the gateway without actually putting the gateway page in the action attribute for the form tag. Is there a way to do that?

Maybe I could pass the variables to a page that has hidden fields and doesn't do anything except blink for a second before using a header to redirect them to the appropriate page. Is there a way to say onLoad submit form?

I hate to have to change how I have things set up because it has to be done tomorrow night and if I have to work late on my anniversary, my wife is going to KILL me.

Help a poor married fellow out.

ok you have 1 form ...submit sends you to the confermation page.......on this page the date gets sent to the db ....clear so far
the rest of the data has to be sent to the gateway .......hmmmm......thats hard beacause i dont quite know how the sending to the gateway workes....but it should be possible to do the saving to the db on the same page as the sending to the gateway

The standard operating procedures that Authorize.net passes is to create form fields with certain names. The fields with the appropriate names are sent to the server in the action attribute to the specific url required by Authorize.net. What I lack is the knowledge on how to do what it is you're saying... being able to send the info to the gateway on the same page as the DB update.
Actually, it's a little more complicated than just a DB update, which is why I don't just have the DB update on the same page as the 'order complete' page. Normally I would just send hidden values and then have the mysql update automatically on the next page, and the action would be the gateway server url. I don't think that would even work, though.
Completely stumped.
Wait... check this, tell me if it would work. submit button goes to the checkform function. in the checkform function, if there are no errors, redirect to this page, which is the process page before the 'order complete' page. That may free up my action attribute so that I can place the gateway there. Sounds a little farfetched to me. Would the form info still pass to the processing page?
This seemed so simple when I started.