Passing form data to remote form on another site

[webace]

Hi Everyone

I recently joined a network marketing opportunity and I am in the process
of designing my own marketing site for it, currently the companies site has
a form on it for new members to join however they don't have a referral script
in place so a introducer's ID has to be manually inserted into thier aspx form.

What I need to know is if there is any way I can pass this data via url or a hidden form
to the form on their site, I am doing my site in plain old html.

your help would be appreciated.

[DaveSawers]

That depends on how their site is coded, not yours. If they will accept a passed parameter for introducer's id, then you just put it in the URL for your link to them. You'll have to ask.

[nottheusual1]

You'd think that if they were worth their salt they would make something like what you need to do as simple as possible - and would tell you how...

It's probably nothing more than appending some "id=123456" scenario to your outbound links, but they must provide that info.

That being said, if it **truly** must be entered manually, then you may not be able to insert variables as a safety (anti form-spam) feature.

[webace]

Thanks Guys

I have contacted the company which is a very large South African company however they dont seem to have the technical savvy for this type of thing and are somewhat
still stuck way back in the 1900's with manual signups, but they have a good rep so I will stick it out and find another way to do this.

thanks again

[wige]

Could you post the file and the affiliate variables you need to send to the form to me in PM? I can take a look later and see if I can find a way to push the information through to them.

[webace]

Sure no probelm

[danlefree]

Somewhat late post, but if your hosting offers PHP with the Client URL Library (cURL), you can run a behind-the-scenes post after creating a copy of their form on your server.

[wige]

Looking at the form in question, it only accepts POST data. The only workaround I can see is to replicate the form on your own site, with the id code in a hidden field. Because most web browsers will notify the user that the form is going to another server, you should make this clear on your version of the form.

I should add, looking at that site in Firefox, I wouldn't enter my credit card information, it is horrible. The form elements overlap text, it is an awful design... as a customer, I wouldn't trust it. I think this could lose you conversions. On top of that, they definitely don't make it easy for you as an affiliate.

[webace]

Hi Guys

Thank you for your suggestions and I will try them the both, I doubt cURL will work in this case but will see what happens although I think wige is on the right track with his suggestion of basically duplicating their form on my my site.

I have offered them to redo their site in php with all the correct required features for online marketing purposes so we will see if they go for that

again thank you very much for your suggestions.