[Javascript] Two Actions with one form

[paul at novitskisoftware.com (Paul Novitski)]

>At 12:51 PM 3/26/2006, Del Wegener wrote:
>>Upon submission of a form I would like two actions to happen:
>>action="/cgi-bin/bizdb-aed.cgi"      to put the contents of the 
>>form in a database
>>action=https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr
>>
>>How do I accomplish this?
>>
>>I am guessing JavaScript -- that's why I tried this list.

At 01:26 PM 3/26/2006, Paul Novitski wrote:
>Del,
>
>I don't know of a way to insert data in a database using JavaScript, 
>which is prevented from writing to files on the client computer for 
>security reasons and has no way to write to files on the server 
>because it's running on the client.
>
>I'd say what you want to do is submit your form to a server-side 
>script (PHP etc.) that writes values to the database then redirects 
>to the destination page.


Sorry, Del, I answered too quickly.  You've already got a CGI script 
writing to the database.  If this functions like most server-side 
scripts, you can redirect to the paypal page from the CGI script 
after it's written to the db.  If you can't do this for some reason 
and you really need to execute two requests from your page of origin, 
then yes, you could do this from JavaScript.

One way to do it would be to trigger the CGI with an image url + 
querystring, such as:

         var oImg = new Image;
         oImg.src = "/cgi-bin/bizdb-aed.cgi?field1=datum1&field2=datum2";

Use JavaScript to build the querystring, create the image object, and 
set the image src.  There will of course be no image file that 
results, but the HTTP request will execute in real time.

Then you can redirect the user to the destination page:

         document.location.href = "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr";;

and you're done.

Paul