Sending Dual Forms with one submit, while pulling the email field from first Form into the second

Question

I have two forms I need to send - the first form is a PHP mailer that takes the info from a bunch of fields and mails it to a recipent. That form has a checkbox and if checked I need the email from that for to be sent via ANOTHER form to a list server adding them to mailing list. I need all this to happen when clicking the submit button from the first form. Can anyone help me with a solution. Thanks.

Form

<form class="form_1" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" onSubmit="return validate()">
<div class="field">
<div class="text2">
              <input type="text" id="name" value="<?php echo $_POST['name'];?>" name="name" title="Name" />
            </div>
            <!--text2-->
            <div class="req">*</div>
            <!--req--> 
          </div>
          <!--field-->
          <div class="field field_right">
            <div class="text2">
              <input type="text" id="email" name="email" value="<?php echo $_POST['email'];?>"  title="Email" />
            </div>
            <!--text2-->
            <div class="req">*</div>
            <!--req--> 
          </div>

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          <div class="clearer"></div>
          <br />
          <div class="field">
            <input type="submit" value="Send" class="btn3" />
          </div>
          <!--field-->
        </form>

Form 2

<form action="http://www.example.com/mailing_list.html" method="post" name="xxxxxxx" onSubmit="return (!(UPTvalidateform(document.UPTmxxxxxx)));">
<input type="hidden" name="submitaction" value="3">
<input type="hidden" name="mlid" value="xxxxxx">
<input type="hidden" name="siteid" value="xxxxxx">
<input type="hidden" name="tagtype" value="q2">
<input type="hidden" name="demographics" value="-1">
<input type="hidden" name="redirection" value="http://www.xxxx.com/thankyou.php">
<input type="hidden" name="uredirection" value="http://">
<input type="hidden" name="welcome" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="double_optin" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="append" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="update" value="on">
<input type="hidden" name="activity" value="submit">

<tr><td colspan="2"></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> <div class="text1"><input type="text" name="email" id="email" />

</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><button type="submit" name="send" value="send" class="button1"></button></td></tr>

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

You will probably need to do the second submission using PHPs curl wrapper so that you only have one form for the user to fill in. Is there any reason you must have two forms?

So it would work like this:

User submits form
Code sends first email
If checkbox checked then submit curl request to second form
Complete

A recent SO answers contains a simple intro to the curl post request process: How to issue HTTP POST request?

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 14 '11 at 16:20

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On your form, have the button tie back to a javascript event

<input type = 'button' value='Submit!' onclick='submitForms()' />

Then have that javascript function, submitForms, actually submit both of your forms.

    document.forms["form1"].submit();
    document.forms["form2"].submit();

answered Mar 14 '11 at 16:20

user470714

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This relies on the browser to issue both requests. Generally a browser will only action one request at a time. So can this method be relied upon cross browser to work? Without testing it I would imagine that the call to submit the second form would halt the first forms submission. – Treffynnon Mar 14 '11 at 16:27
That's true. I suppose you could do the same with some fancy AJAX, but your suggestion of using CURL is probably more elegant, assuming the OP has or can make CURL available. – user470714 Mar 14 '11 at 17:04

Sending Dual Forms with one submit, while pulling the email field from first Form into the second

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