How To ? Form Post to Multiple Locations

Question

I have a form which I need to POST to multiple scripts. How can I do this the simplest way?

I know it could be done with Javascript, Curl or Snoopy class, but really

Answer 1

The easiest way to do this is to use jQuery to send an $.ajax (or $.post or $.get) to each script, retrieving the result from each of them and doing what you will with the results.

$(document).ready( function(){
    $('#mySubmitButton').click(function(){
        //Send data to the email script
        $.post( 'send-email.php', $('form').serialize(), function(data, textStatus) {
            //data is the result from the script
            alert(data);
        });

        //Send data to the other script
        $.post( 'my-other-script.php', $('form').serialize(), function(data, textStatus) {
            //data is the result from the script
            alert(data);
        });
    });
});

update: The serialize command is the data that is being sent. Take a look at the jQuery serialize function. It basically just takes the various inputs, selects, textareas, checkboxes, etc in your form, and puts them into a string like this:

myNameInput=john&active=on&whateverSelected=3

It's just a string of your form element names and their values. That is what is sent to the external script via the ajax command.

A side note, when doing serialize, make sure that all your form elements have a name attribute, not just an id. The serialize doesn't pay any attention to their id's. Only their name.