Can I use eForm to post to an external page?

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[killorbytes]

I'm redoing a site right now and I have rebuilt the contact form in eForm. The issue is that the old form submits to an aspx file that dumps the contents into a SQL dB. Can I use eForm to submit to that page? OR do I need to just do it the old fashioned way?

[dev_cw]

You will need to use an eForm event to send the data to the location in question. Look at the eform2db snippet (or rather method since it is not really a snippet). This points to a mysql database using the modx db api, but you could use custom php to send it to the aspx page.
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,8111.0.html

[killorbytes]

Hmmm, this looks way more complicated than I need. The host already has a script developed that has been in use and works, I would rather just use eForm's validation and setup, but just target the host's existing script allowing eForm to do the redirecting after post, etc. Would this even work?

[TobyL]

Hmmm, this looks way more complicated than I need. The host already has a script developed that has been in use and works, I would rather just use eForm's validation and setup, but just target the host's existing script allowing eForm to do the redirecting after post, etc. Would this even work?

Redirecting to another page after eForm has finished validating would means you loose the $_POST values. They don't propagate.

[ZAP]

Hmmm, this looks way more complicated than I need. The host already has a script developed that has been in use and works, I would rather just use eForm's validation and setup, but just target the host's existing script allowing eForm to do the redirecting after post, etc. Would this even work?

It sounds like you should just use the original form and script if you don't want to insert the info into the database yourself. If you're going to redirect to that form anyway, you may as well do it from the beginning. You could display it in an iframe or modal so that people aren't redirected away from your current site.

You can use eform2db to insert the data into the database yourself, however, and that works perfectly with eForm.