Two actions in one form

[lyleyboy]

Hi,

Please help. I confess I'm no Java expert.
I have a form. When the user clicks submit I would like form to be sent to two different cgi scripts.

Please help and don't forget to make it simple.

Many thanks
Lyle

[Kor]

You may use trick. Try this:

First add on your page two "hidden" iframes where you may submit.

<div style="visibility:hidden">
<iframe name="ifr1" width="20" height="20"></iframe>
<iframe name="ifr2" width="20" height="20"></iframe>
</div> 

Now you can build a function

<script type="text/javascript">
function submitTwice(f){
f.action = 'first.php';
f.target='ifr1';
f.submit();
f.action = 'second.php';
f.target='ifr2';
f.submit();
}
</script> 

and the form:

<form method="post">
....
<input type="button" value="Send" onclick="submitTwice(this.form)">
</form> 

[wpdfran]

This is an AWESOME script. I know nothing about Javascript and was still able to use it. I have a question though. Is it possible to add a verification script to this? The script I need to use requires the form to have a name and I can't seem to figure out where to put it. Any ideas?

[ogunisik]

thanks mate. this is realy working.

[kthursto]

Has anyone encountered any problems w/ this scipt working in Firefox? It works wonderfully for me in IE; but, does not submit any data via FF.

[tifotifo]

i've tried this ....

link 1 works when "f.target='ifr*';" is included and link 2 works when it is deleted. They don't both work together.

anyone?

[mustu9980]

That really worked and yes it worked in Firefox.

Now, after submitting i had a thankyou page which comes. Here after putting the first code in the thankyou page that is this:
"<div style="visibility:hidden">
<iframe name="ifr1" width="20" height="20"></iframe>
<iframe name="ifr2" width="20" height="20"></iframe>
</div>"

As my thankyou page was itself integrated in my action script when i submitted i got two thank you pages in new window which i dont want, infact i want the thankyou page to be opened in the same window, so i simply deleted f.target from the javascript, so now

Instead of this:
<script type="text/javascript">
function submitTwice(f){
f.action = 'first.php';
f.target='ifr1';
f.submit();
f.action = 'second.php';
f.target='ifr2';
f.submit();
}
</script>

i kept in the header of the contact for this:
<script type="text/javascript">
function submitTwice(f){
f.action = 'first.php';
f.submit();
f.action = 'second.php';
f.submit();
}
</script>

Thats it, But thanks Kor after all i got what i needed becaz of you.

[Sterling Isfine]

i've tried this ....

link 1 works when "f.target='ifr*';" is included and link 2 works when it is deleted. They don't both work together.

anyone?

Some browsers may have a problem with queueing the data from two forms, so it's not entirely surprising that it failed and I don't think it could be considered reliable. If a JavaScript-dependent solution is acceptable, an AJAX routine would be far more dependable, but the best solution has to be a server-side forwarding script.