{"id":165,"date":"2017-01-18T01:01:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T01:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jtc-art.com\/code-blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2017-01-18T01:20:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T01:20:05","slug":"how-to-send-2-html-forms-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jtc-art.com\/code-blog\/how-to-send-2-html-forms-at-once\/","title":{"rendered":"How to send 2 HTML forms at once"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was doing a project and it required that I sent the same information to 2 different sites using 2 different forms. It wasn’t easy to edit the back end code so I couldn’t used the API. After researching I came up with this solution.<\/p>\n

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  1. Hide the second form with CSS\n
     <form style=\"display:none;\"....<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  2. When the first form is submitted do 3 things.\n
      \n
    1. Populate the second form using the values from the first. I used jQuery .val\n
       var name = $(\"#name\").val();\r\n\r\n $(\"#name2\").val(name);<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
    2. Send the first form through an IFrame.\n
       <form target=\"iFrameID\"....<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
    3. Set the thank you page for the form to come back to an html file with basic HTLM code and a script like this to trigger a function to send the second form. This page has to be on the original domain so it doesn’t violate the cross domain rules.<\/strong>\n
       <script>\r\n\r\n parent.sendForm2();\r\n\r\n <\/script><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
       <\/p>\n
      Example of code for the main page….<\/p>\n
      <iframe id=\"iFrame1\" name=\"iFrame1\"><\/iframe>\r\n\r\n<form id=\"form1\" target=\u201diFrame1\u2033>\r\n   Name: <input type=\u201dtext\u201d id=\u201dname\u201d name=\u201dname\u201d\/>\r\n<\/form>\r\n\r\n<form id=\u201dform2\u2033 style=\u201ddisplay:none;\u201d>\r\n   Name: <input type=\u201dtext\u201d id=\u201dname2\u2033 name=\u201dname\u201d\/>\r\n<\/form>\r\n\r\n<script>\r\nfunction sendForm1(){\r\n   $(\u201c#form1\u201d).submit();\r\n}\r\n\r\nfunction sendForm2(){\r\n   $(\u201c#form2\u201d).submit();\r\n}\r\n\r\nfunction populateForm2(){\r\n   var name = $(\u201c#name\u201d).val();\r\n   $(\u201c#name2\u201d).val(name);\r\n   sendForm1();\r\n}\r\n\r\n$(\"#form1\").submit(function() {\r\n   populateForm2();\r\n   return false;\r\n});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/pre>\n
       <\/p>\n
      Example of code for the thank you page (for the first form) HTML file ….<\/p>\n
      <!DOCTYPE html>\r\n<html lang=\"en-US\">\r\n<head>\r\n<meta charset=\"UTF-8\">\r\n<script>\r\nparent.sendForm2();\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/head>\r\n<body>\r\n<p>Sending...<\/p>\r\n<\/body>\r\n<\/html>\r\n<\/pre>\n
      Note:<\/strong> This page has to be on the original domain so it doesn’t violate the cross domain rules. If you need to do it with a subdomain you could add document.domain = “subdomain.mydomain.com”;<\/em> to the main page and the thank you page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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