Hide a page while redirecting to url

[ken3d06]

Hello, 

When a user clicks a submit button on 'page 1' it takes them to 'page 2' that has summaries of his orders, and at the same time it gives a splashing notice of being redirected to a url (I will call it 'page 3'

 

I want when the submit button is clicked, page 2 should be completely bypassed so that it doesnt show to the user..(I still want page 2 code to run in the background though)

 

How do I do this

 

[paddy_fields]

You could just put your code for page2 at the top of page3, and make the form send to page3 originally.

 

In answer to your question, If page2 just contains PHP code and doesn't print anything to the page, put this at the bottom of page2...

header('location:page3.php');

That will then redirect the user to page3.php once the page2 code has been parsed.

Edited January 16, 2014 by paddyfields

[jazzman1]

3 different ways come in my mind:

 

1. Using cURL

2.Using stdin passing variables into a terminal

3. Using iframe with hidden content

 

The easiest way is curl.

 

Example:

 

form.php

<?php session_start();

if(isset($_GET['submit'])){
 
// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://192.168.122.159/pdo/index.php?action=".$_GET['name']);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

// grab URL and pass it to the output variable
$output = curl_exec($ch);

// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);

$_SESSION['output'] = $output; // save output in session

// redirect the output from our variable to the browser
header('Location: display.php'); exit;
}
?>

<form action="form.php" method="get">
    Name: <input type="text" name="name" />
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send!!" />
</form>

index.php (second page, it shouldn't be visible)

<?php

  $name = $_GET['action'];

 // $inQuery = implode(',', array_fill(0, count($names), '?'));
  
  $sql = "SELECT * FROM sakila.actor WHERE first_name IN(:name)";
  
  $username = 'lxc';

  $password = 'password';

  $dbh = new PDO('mysql:dbname=sakila;host=::1;charset=utf8', $username, $password);

  $dbh->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
  
  // insert some data using a prepared statement
$stmt = $dbh->prepare($sql);

// bind php variables to the named placeholders in the query
// they are both strings that will not be more than 64 chars long

$stmt->bindParam(':name', $name, PDO::PARAM_STR, 64);

$stmt->execute();

$row = $stmt->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

echo "<pre>".print_r($row, true)."</pre>";

$stmt = null;

display.php

<?php 

session_start();

echo "<h2>Output of display page</h2>"; 

echo "<p>Hello freaks</p>";

echo "<h2>Output of index page</h2>".$_SESSION['output'];

Result:

 

 

PS: If your site requires cookies, you should include CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE and CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR to  cURL script.

Edited January 16, 2014 by jazzman1