auto submit a form? possible?

[Allen]

ok - i have a form - that when submitted needs to do some processing but then I need to send that person to another form submission... is this possible?

meaning the following:

• user comes to my form
• user completes form
• user submits form
• form processes data and rather than showing a thank you msg, forwards to another form as if they submitted that 2nd form

the idea is that i want to have a pre-processing page for a paypal signup - so i want the person to be sent to paypal with the correct attributes after filling in my form - i know i can do this as a straight url but would rather do it as a form post so all the data is not shown in the url.

thank you
allen

[Till]

You can do it with simple HTML/javascript:

<form action="http://paypal" method="post" id="paypalProcessor">
<input type="hidden" name="foo" value="bar" />
</form>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.getElementById('paypalProcessor').submit();
//-->
</script>

Of course this can also be done with PHP and so on.