Hi. Im trying to incorporate an API from my client which returns a json string after posting to an https url.

Ultimate Goal:
1. user fills out short form
2. I send post to API url which returns json string
3. I parse json srting and display output on the screen
4. (optional) after user sees output they have option to enter more info. I was hoping I could do this with a multipage form, but im not sure. Is there a way to have this call done on the "next" field?

So, im researching the script form fields in the rsform pro. I tested this in the top field (called on form display) and it does the alert before showing the form. This was just for testing. I tried this in the other 2 script fields but does not produce an alert.

print '<script type="text/javascript">';
print 'alert("111111")';
print '</script>';

So i then found this link from rsjoomla on silent posting. Im hoping this is the direction i need to go.
www.rsjoomla.com/support/documentation/v.../83-silent-post.html

The API documentation supplied gives me the following info: "rates can be obtained by POSTing your request parameters over https to rate.honestpolicy.com/get_rates. The encoding/content-type to be used is "application/x-www-form-urlencoded". The rest of the api doc describes the specific var names.

The code below is what i got from the above link. I tried to simply echo the result var, but that doesnt seem to work. should i try to be displaying the vars in the results email? will they be avail as $_POST ??

Any guidance will be appreciated. Thanks!!

// this is your form's action URL
$url = 'rate.honestpolicy.com/get_rates';

$ch = curl_init();

// set user agent
$useragent = 'YahooSeeker-Testing/v3.9 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; search.yahoo.com/)';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);

// don't touch this
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

// set the target URL which contains scripts that accepts post request
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

// set the variables to be sent
// the format of the variables is var1=value1&var2=value2&var3=value3
$data = array();
foreach ($_POST as $post => $value)
{
if (is_array($value))
foreach ($value as $post2 => $value2)
$data[] = $post.'[]='.urlencode($value2);
else
$data[] = $post.'='.urlencode($value);
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, implode('&', $data));

// execute curl,fetch the result and close curl connection
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// my attempt to display results
echo $result;