https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Send the form data to another php program via the "Redirected URL" feature en Tue, 05 May 2026 07:54:13 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/send-the-form-data-to-another-php-program-via-the-redirected-url-feature#post-12047 Wed, 25 May 2011 05:52:04 +0000 orachat 12047@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I start with &#38; instead of ? in "$form_redirect . '&#38;' . $url_data" because I'm assuming that $form_redirect will already have some parameters (see #2 in the first post), since this is how I use it. I suppose this part can be improved by checking to see if '?' exists in $form_redirect already, and if not, then use '?' instead of '&#38;'. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/send-the-form-data-to-another-php-program-via-the-redirected-url-feature#post-12035 Tue, 24 May 2011 07:01:13 +0000 startagl 12035@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>form review, did the trick. Thanks.</p> <p>Also your code seems to create a malformed post. The data returned starts with a &#38; instead of a ?, did you do that on purpose?</p> <p>I also added to following code in case it helps anyone.</p> <p>//append the newly created record id to the $url_data stream<br /> $url_data .= 'RecNo=' . $new_record_id; //unique number for this form submission</p> <p>//saves the $url_data to a file so you can inspect it<br /> file_put_contents("/(path)/POST_FUNCTIONS.txt",$url_data,FILE_APPEND); </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/send-the-form-data-to-another-php-program-via-the-redirected-url-feature#post-12033 Tue, 24 May 2011 02:08:33 +0000 orachat 12033@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>To answer the question "Does this file get written only if there is a redirected url,",<br /> the answer is "yes". </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/send-the-form-data-to-another-php-program-via-the-redirected-url-feature#post-12032 Tue, 24 May 2011 02:06:01 +0000 orachat 12032@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I've always tested with "form review" on and never thought about it, but I just tested with it off and it does not work. I didn't realize this. I didn't review the entire code to see where I should put the code because I was referred to post-functions.php. I guess it's a question for the developers as to where this code should go if "form review" is off. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/send-the-form-data-to-another-php-program-via-the-redirected-url-feature#post-12029 Mon, 23 May 2011 08:35:40 +0000 yuniar 12029@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I think the code above assume that you need to enable "form review" for your form. So try to enable form review. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/send-the-form-data-to-another-php-program-via-the-redirected-url-feature#post-12023 Sun, 22 May 2011 09:03:55 +0000 startagl 12023@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I am not sure why but it seems like this code is not getting executed at all. Just for testing I have put in sleep(10000); and it still just jumps to the redirect page without any pause. what the? </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/send-the-form-data-to-another-php-program-via-the-redirected-url-feature#post-12021 Sat, 21 May 2011 18:24:29 +0000 startagl 12021@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I have added the following code to your procedure.</p> <p>$mlog = fopen("test.txt","w");<br /> fwrite ($mlog, $url_data . "\n"); //for testing only<br /> fclose($mlog);</p> <p>But I can not find the test.txt file anywhere, so<br /> I created the file and set its permissions to 666. But the file never gets updated.</p> <p>Does this file get written only if there is a redirected url, Or does it create the file for every form that is completed?</p> <p>Thanks. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/send-the-form-data-to-another-php-program-via-the-redirected-url-feature#post-12018 Sat, 21 May 2011 09:01:45 +0000 yuniar 12018@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Thank you for sharing this code! </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/send-the-form-data-to-another-php-program-via-the-redirected-url-feature#post-12016 Sat, 21 May 2011 00:59:41 +0000 orachat 12016@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>The following code was written for the following conditions:<br /> 1. MachForm version 2.4<br /> 2. The "Redirected URL" already has some parameters. For example, <a href="http://xx.xx.xx.xx/process_form_data.php?form_name=template&#38;itemcode=123432" rel="nofollow">http://xx.xx.xx.xx/process_form_data.php?form_name=template&#38;itemcode=123432</a></p> <p>To send the form data to a php program, replace the line</p> <pre><code>$commit_result[&#39;form_redirect&#39;] = $form_redirect;</code></pre> <p>in includes/post-functions.php with the following code (probably should be a function instead):</p> <pre><code>$url_data = &#39;&#39;; $entry_details = get_entry_details($form_id,$new_record_id,&#39;&#39;); foreach ($entry_details as $data) { if ($data[&#39;element_type&#39;] == &#39;textarea&#39;) { $data[&#39;value&#39;] = nl2br($data[&#39;value&#39;]); //add br before newline $data[&#39;value&#39;] = str_replace(&quot;\r\n&quot;, &#39;&#39;, $data[&#39;value&#39;]); //remove newline because it breaks php } elseif ($data[&#39;element_type&#39;] == &#39;file&#39;) { $data[&#39;value&#39;] = strip_tags($data[&#39;value&#39;], &#39;&lt;a&gt;&#39;); //remove the image tag, but keep href } elseif ($data[&#39;element_type&#39;] == &#39;checkbox&#39;) { $data[&#39;value&#39;] = strip_tags($data[&#39;value&#39;], &#39;&lt;br&gt;&#39;); //remove the image tag, but keep &lt;br&gt; $data[&#39;value&#39;] = str_replace(&#39;&#39;, &#39;,&#39;, $data[&#39;value&#39;]); //replace &lt;br&gt; with &#39;,&#39; $data[&#39;value&#39;] = preg_replace (&#39;/^ /&#39;, &#39;&#39;, $data[&#39;value&#39;]); //remove the beginning space $data[&#39;value&#39;] = preg_replace (&#39;/,$/&#39;, &#39;&#39;, $data[&#39;value&#39;]); //remove the trailing &#39;,&#39; } elseif ($data[&#39;element_type&#39;] == &#39;phone&#39;) { $data[&#39;value&#39;] = str_replace(&#39; &#39;, &#39;&#39;, $data[&#39;value&#39;]); //remove spaces } elseif ($data[&#39;element_type&#39;] == &#39;address&#39;) { $data[&#39;value&#39;] = str_replace(&#39;&#39;, &#39;, &#39;, $data[&#39;value&#39;]); //prefer &#39;,&#39; over &lt;br&gt; } //target php program fails to get some data values correctly due to existence of non-alphanumeric characters $data[&#39;value&#39;] = urlencode($data[&#39;value&#39;]); //replace &#39;&amp;nbsp;&#39; with nothing, because empty fields have &#39;&amp;nbsp;&#39; after using urlencode() previously $data[&#39;value&#39;] = str_replace(&#39;%26nbsp%3B&#39;, &#39;&#39;, $data[&#39;value&#39;]); $url_data .= $data[&#39;label&#39;] . &#39;=&#39; . &#39;&quot;&#39; . $data[&#39;value&#39;] . &#39;&quot;&#39; . &#39;&#38;&#39;; //fwrite ($mlog, $url_data . &quot;\n&quot;); //for testing only } $commit_result[&#39;form_redirect&#39;] = $form_redirect . &#39;&#38;&#39; . $url_data;</code></pre>