The only thing that comes to mind is to have your action render a form
with the necessary inputs (probably hidden) whose action is set to the
remote site and that uses Javascript to automatically cause the form
to submit itself. Alas, you're back to Javascript again. You could
leave a submit button visible with appropriate instructions in case
the client browser has Javascript disabled.
Andrew
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:51 AM, sagittariidae<matt.ca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you for all your suggestions guys.
>
> I can see why javascript would be a useful choice for this problem but I
> have opted to figure out the action to perform server-side, using php to
> determine which submit variable is present in the POST variables and its
> seems to be working for me (so cheers for the idea Mark). Now for the next
> problem (which I should probably put in a new thread) but I need to redirect
> to an external url with a POST request containing all my form values. From
> what I have read a redirect would not send the POST variables and creating a
> HTTP Client would mean that that even tho I could post to the external url
> the browser would not actually be redirected to the external url.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the advice, Matt
>
>
> Jurian Sluiman wrote:
>>
>> Well, even if it works on some (or most) browsers, it's not the most
>> wonderful
>> option.
>>
>> The best is imho to provide your local url as action. By pressing the
>> submit
>> button for your remote site you can change the action with javascript. If
>> javascript is not enabled, you can always check serverside at your local
>> action if the "remote submit" is pressed and forward the action with the
>> redirector.
>>
>> Then it's for the most users very friendly, but with js turned off it
>> still
>> works.
>>
>> Regards, Jurian
>> --
>> Jurian Sluiman
>> Soflomo.com
>>
>> Op Tuesday 23 June 2009 14:44:28 schreef Ramon de la Fuente:
>>> Actually.. submitting by Return key or Space fires the onClick event on
>>> the submit buttons. (go figure)
>>> [Google Chrome 2.0.172.31, IE 8, FF 3.0.11]
>>>
>>>
>>> Ramon
>>>
>>> drm wrote:
>>> > Watch out with javascript solutions, since it might give you trouble
>>> > with submits by pressing the Return key to submit a form.
>>> >
>>> > Gerard
>>> >
>>> > Ramon de la Fuente wrote:
>>> >> Also, if you have different actions depending on the button that
>>> >> submits the request, you could
>>> >> use Javascript to alter the "action" of the form prior to submit.
>>> >>
>>> >> The form tag looks like:
>>> >> <form id="testform" action="" method="post">
>>> >>
>>> >> The inputs look something like:
>>> >> <input type="submit" onClick="setAction('local');" name="buy"
>>> >> value="Local" />
>>> >> <input type="submit" onClick="setAction('remote');" name="buy"
>>> >> value="LIVE!" />
>>> >>
>>> >> And the setAction function something like:
>>> >> <script>
>>> >> function setAction(loc) {
>>> >> if (loc == 'local') {
>>> >> document.getElementById('testform').action =
>>> >> '/controller/action';
>>> >> } else {
>>> >> document.getElementById('testform').action =
>>> >> 'http://www.remoteurl.nl/someform.php';
>>> >> }
>>> >> }
>>> >> </script>
>>> >>
>>> >> Ofcorse this could probably look a little smoother using your
>>> >> favorite Javascript library...
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Hope this helps,
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Ramon de la Fuente
>>> >>
>>> >> lightflowmark wrote:
>>> >>> This is true of all HTML forms (AFAIK). I would approach this by
>>> >>> having both
>>> >>> forms submit to the same action (as you must), and using the
>>> >>> redirector to
>>> >>> conditionally redirect to the desired ultimate action, something
>>> like:
>>> >>> MyController.php:
>>> >>> public function myFormAction()
>>> >>> {
>>> >>> if($this->getRequest()->getParam('button1'))
>>> >>> {
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> $this->_helper->getHelper('Redirector')->gotoUrl('http://othersite.com/
>>> >>>',$this->getRequest()->getParams())
>>> >>>
>>> >>> }
>>> >>> else
>>> >>> {
>>> >>> //do form stuff locally
>>> >>> }
>>> >>> }
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Cheers,
>>> >>> Mark
>>> >>>
>>> >>> sagittariidae wrote:
>>> >>>> Hey all,
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> I might be going the wrong way about it but I am looking to include
>>> 2
>>> >>>> submit buttons on a form to choose from, one button posting to a
>>> >>>> script on
>>> >>>> another site and one posting back to an action in the same
>>> controller
>>> >>>> (with the ability to use the posted variables once there). Is this
>>> >>>> possible using Zend Form? Surely the form action has to be assigned
>>> >>>> before
>>> >>>> the form is actually created so that is why I am stumped. I suppose
>>> I
>>> >>>> could have the form post back to a single action that checks which
>>> >>>> button
>>> >>>> has been pressed but then how would I post the variables to the
>>> >>>> subsequent
>>> >>>> script, would I use Zend_Http_Client?
>>> >>>> Many thanks, Matt
>>
>>
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