Backgound form post

[dragonhawk]

Just wondering if anyone knows how to post values to a script without actually going to the script?

For example, if you are submitting data from A into B, another script will also get that form submitted data but without actually redirecting the user to that other script.

Hope that's clear.

[lieut_data]

In B, you could include the second script (which would have access to $_POST), but barring loading multiple frames and a convoluted $_POST parser, I don't think it could be done quite as you described it.

[m.t.]

you could do it with javaScript like in this example:

refstat=new Image(1,1);
refstat.src="some_other_php_script.php?df=21472&ref="+escape(document.referrer);

[dragonhawk]

you could do it with javaScript like in this example:

refstat=new Image(1,1);
refstat.src="some_other_php_script.php?df=21472&ref="+escape(document.referrer);

Wouldn't this be a GET and not a POST?

I'm actually after something like Paypal's IPN, where a post is made to a script all behind the scenes.

[m.t.]

yes this is GET and not POST but why does it matter to you? you can pass information this way - isn't that what
you wanted?

I don't know another way myself but I would be very interested if there was another (non JavaScript) solution to this...

remeber: it only works if the client has JavaScript enabled

[dragonhawk]

Well, one way would be to use the img tag: <img src="script.php?var1=val1&var2=val2" width=1 height=1> - this way, you don't need to use javascript.

It's just that I don't think the script I want to invisibly submit to accepts GET which is why I needed to POST (if possible).