Greg Knaddison wrote:

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Jamie Holly<hovercrafter@earthlink.net> wrote:

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#method specifies the way the form is submitted (either POST or GET). You want to change [#action] to the URL you want. Of course doing that will remove any validation from the form in FAPI. You will have to do all the validation yourself.

Good point. My response assumed the page it POSTS to will do the validation and present an error screen where the user can do something.

Cheers, Greg

The external source is a Paypal API which does all the validation etc.

If you specify it as a full url ie: $form['#action']='http://www.mysite.com/formhandler/'; It should work. I use the same thing on a site in D6 where videos uploaded are uploaded directly to our encoding server and it handles all the validations, etc. Jamie Holly http://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net Brian Vuyk wrote:

Oops - that was a typo. #action was indeed what I meant, however, it only allows internal Drupal paths, so I can't point to to anything outside.

Brian

Jamie Holly wrote:

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#method specifies the way the form is submitted (either POST or GET). You want to change [#action] to the URL you want. Of course doing that will remove any validation from the form in FAPI. You will have to do all the validation yourself.

Jamie Holly http://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net

Brian Vuyk wrote:

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Hello all.

For one of my clients, we have a long multistep form that we use to collect information for a user and enroll him / her in a course. One thing we would like to do is POST some information to an external API.

Is it possible, using the FAPI, to POST data to an external source? I was going to user $form['#method'], however, that only allows internal paths.

Worst case scenario, I could create a custom submit callback which POSTS the data over using CURL, but I am hoping to find a more elegant solution.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Brian