Form with 2 actions, only one button 2

[CMcC]

Hi all.
I have a form where the action is a link to a third party vendor for credit card payments. Within this form, I attach hidden variables and submit those with the action to the link.

We want to start adding records to a table to let us know when a customer has "left" our site to go to the credit card processing site.

Im not sure how to proceed with my insertuser.asp (code that will add records to a table on my server) and the url with hidden variables so that the customer does not see.

I thought that maybe within my "insertuser.asp" page - once finished updating the tables, I could perform a redirect to the third party URl, although all the hidden variables are lost. I also tried passing the hidden variables to my insertuser.asp and concatenate a querystring to send, but I keep getting "unterminated string constant" errors.

Any suggestions as to how to add a record to a table before the user sends to the third party vendor?

Thanks so much in advance for any help!
CMCC

 

[xwb]

You could use session variables. They should remain persistent.

 

[jeepxo]

That screams AJAX to me.

Check

http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/default.asp

for a really simple tutorial on AJAX.

Basically you move your "update" to a separate ASP page.
change your submit button to a "button" instead of a submit.

You write a little javascript function that passes whatever you need updated to your update.asp with
xmlhttp.open("GET","update.asp?variable1=blahblahblah&variable2=blah",true);
xmlhttp.send();

then you add your code to go to the credit card processing.

It would take you 10 minutes to through the tutorial on W3Schools.

One hint for debugging because the update functionality isn't going to display anything on your screen. Use Window.Open first so that you can debug your update.asp. Once it works well, change that window.open to the xmlhttp.open and .send

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[CMcC]

Thanks to both of you for your help. Im only alittle familiar with AJAX, so I will definitely check out that tutorial link that you provided Jeepxo.

The need for it isnt as important as it was when I posted, but it is helpful to know how to - in case I need it in the future!

CMCC