[development] Using the Forms API to post information to an external source

[Brian Vuyk]

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