Redirect with POST data

Question

I am working on a shopping cart with several payment options using different APIs.

The flow I want is that the user chooses which payment option to use and the accor

Answer 1

If you have the PECL http extension installed (it'll show up in phpinfo() as pecl_http) you can create an HTTP POST request and spit out the results after the following pattern:

// your DB code above here
$pay_request = new HttpRequest($remote_url, HTTP_METH_POST);
$pay_request->addPostFields($_POST);
$pay_request->send()->send();

Last line's not a typo - the request returns a response, and then the response gets dumped in the output buffer.