Transfering data from outside source

[Ratchez]

Not sure if this is the right forum for this but, I have a client that wants
his groups data to transfer over from his site on to hidden fields on our order
forms.

to explain the senario a bit better: his people will log in to a page on his
site that has a link to our order form. He wants their user information to pass
over to our order form without the person having to re-enter their user info.

what would be the best way to accomplish this ?

I tried looking to see if some other post might have been made on this
subject, but didn't know what to search for other than "transfering data" and
when I did that I didn't get any results.

I hope this makes sense

[darrel]

> what would be the best way to accomplish this ?

An easy way would be for his system to append a querystring to the URL that
goes to your form:

[url]www.yoursite.com/yourform.php?userid=bobsmith[/url]

Then, grab that information and put it in the form.

That said, if any of this is secure information, then this won't work. Ie,
if something could go wrong if someone manually changed the above to
'johndoe' then this is obviously not a good solution.

-Darrel

[Ratchez]

Thanks Darrel,

yes it would be secured info.

[darrel]

> yes it would be secured info.

Then you're going to have to set up a system where the servers talk to each
other directly via a secured connection. You want to exclude the browser
from this transation completely.

-Darrel

[Ratchez]

Thanks again Darrel