hi,
I have a tradedoubler webbug to implement in site - not a problem as such - but
I have a slight issue when it comes to online payments.
I have an order processing page that is requested *directly* by an online
payment service
in order to tell the site/system that a given order has successfully completely,
this occurs prior to the online payment service redirecting the user back to my
site...
at the end of the order processing the order (basically the order is marked as
completed)
is removed from the session in such a way that there is no longer anyway to
know details
about the order, so by the time the user comes back to the site I don't have
the required
info to create the required webbug url...
which led me to the idea/conclusion that I must (in the case of successful
online payments)
generate the webbug url in the order processing page while the relevant order
details are
still available and then make a request to the webbug url directly from the
server...
I could make this request by simply doing this:
file_get_contents($webbugURL);
but this would block until the data was returned, but I don't want to wait for
a reply and
I definitely give a hoot about the content returned ... all I want is for the
request to
go out on the wire and then have my script immediately continue with what it
should be doing.
I believe this would require creating a non-blocking connection in some way,
but I'm stuck
as to the correct way to tackle this. I've been reading about non-blocking
sockets/streams etc
but I'm just becoming more and more confused really, anyone care to put me out
of my misery?
rgds,
Jochem
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