PHP send form data more than one form/pages

Question

I am a PHP beginner.

I want to send a form data to more than one form/pages. Is it possible?

It sends data to use.php . But I want that it also sends data to two more PHP files: lock.php and unlock.php .

How is it possible?

Answer 1

Make your formdata go to one script, and simply include to the other scripts and they'll have access to the $_POST variable as well.

I use this a lot myself. I have a script where everything runs through the index.php file, but functions are stored in different php files depending on what they're doing. My index.php includes all the php files I need, and inside these php files I have scripting like this:

index.php:

<?php
    include('pagename.php');
    include('otherpage.php');
    echo $return;  //output from previous pages
?>

and pagename.php:

<?php
    if( $_GET['page'] != 'pagename' )
    {
        return ('');
    }

    if( isset($_POST['var']) )
    {
        // some code
    }

Answer 2

You can use Ajax on a client side. I recommend Jquery because it is very easy to start with, or you can use CURL on server side, but it is much more complicated, you can find a bunch of tutorials, just google: sending post data with curl.

Now Jquery Ajax approach:

Lets say your form has an ID of myForm:

make a selector:

    $(document).ready(function () {
        $("myForm").submit(function (e) {
            e.preventDefault(); //prevent default form submit
    var url1 = 'your path to url1';
    var url2 = 'your path to url2';
    var url3 = 'your path to url3';

   sendAjax(data,url1);
   sendAjax(data,url2);
   sendAjax(data,url3);
//do the regular submit
$(this).submit();
});

    function sendAjax(data,url){

     $.ajax({
                    url: url,
                    type:'POST',
                    data: data,
                    success: function (data) {
                      //here you do all the return functionality
                    },
                    cache: false
                });
            });

    }

What have we done here:

prevented default sending of form, made X ajax requests, and send the form normally.

We have made a function for simple ajax handeling just to make our code cleaner.

The problem with this method is that you must make form checking in javascript before you start sending.