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Asked: 2026-05-25T15:50:35+00:00

So I’m making a check out cart on my website. I’m using PayPal as

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So I’m making a check out cart on my website. I’m using PayPal as the payment system but before I transfer the customers to PayPal I get their details. To do that I POST from index.php to index.php, run my code to retrieve the POSTed info and store it in a database and now wish to redirect the customer to PayPal.

Unfortunately you have to POST all the cart data to PayPal:

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">

The only way I see around this is to post to index.php, collect the user data, then have a button show up saying click here to pay via PayPal. That’s one extra step that I want to avoid.

Any way to POST to index.php, collect the data, then post the PayPal info to the PayPal website? Or any other ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    you would need 2 forms on your page, one form that posts back to index.php and a second form that posts to paypal

    after the first form posts back to index.php, echo javascript in the body tag to submit the paypal form when it loads

        <?php
   if(isset($_POST['mydatafield'])){

        do database stuff

        $LOAD = 'document.paypal.submit();';
    }
    ?>
    <body onload="<?php echo $LOAD ?>">
    <form name="paypal" action="paypal.com?yadayada">
    paypal fields
    </form>
    <form name="myform" action="index.php">
    your form stuff
    submit button
    </form>
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