Laravel 5.2 Post form to external URL on submit - php

Question

I am using a third party payment service.
<form name="form1" method="post" action="https://exampledomain.com/postpayment.php">
<input type="hidden" name="CRESecureID" value="1"/>
<input type="hidden" name="trans_type" value=" 2"/>
<input type="hidden" name="content_template_url" value="https://example.com/enterpaymentdetails.html"/>
<input type="hidden" name="allowed_types" value=" 3"/>
<input type="hidden" name="total_amt" value="$payment->amount"/>
<input type="hidden" name="collect_total_amt" value="$payment->total"/>
<input type="hidden" name="sess_id" value="e91dd8af53j35k072s0bubjtn7"/>
<input type="hidden" name="sess_name" value="session"/>
<input type="hidden" name="return_url" value="https://example.com/return.html"/>
<p><label> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"/> </label></p>
How can I correctly send these variables to an external URL? Should I do it in the controller? An example would be helpful.
Thanks

Answer 1

Best method to implement this is:
Post form data to one of your own URL, then post this data to the required external URL using Guzzle client or curl request.
This approach will help you to track the response from the external URL and manipulate or use it if required.
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

You can do it on controller, a good approach will be to get these variables on controller, pass them to repository/service layer, perform all the validation checks and once everything is good, send them via CURL POST.
You can use Request to validate the form fields. Validate, process and send.
Here is the code to send data via CURL post
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "URL_OF_API");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 100);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postFieldsArray);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

Answer 3

Try adding double forward-slash in your form action
E.g. <form action="{{'//newsite.com/whatever'}}" >
That is all.