I've been asked to use http post to send information from VOIP but I don't really understand what to do. I'd be greatful if anybody could give me any please.

Thanks
Lucy

Could you explain a bit more about what you are trying to do with the VOIP system?

The VOIP system is for a restaurant, enabling people to use the phone to place
an order for take-away. The person will press different numbers depending on
what they want. When they've finished their order will be sent via HTTP POST to
the restaurant.

The person I need to create the HTTP POST for has said:

For each order that we receive through the IVR system, we will send a
single HTTP POST request with a plain text body containing the order
details. The server at your end will simply need to send this text to
the printer.

We will expect a 200 OK response from the server (the standard success
response for HTTP). If we get any other response, or time out waiting
for a response, we will make a single retry of the request. If the
second attempt fails we will drop the order.

I don't know if this s, but this is all the information I have

Lucy4 wrote:
> The person I need to create the HTTP POST for has said:
>
> For each order that we receive through the IVR system, we will send a
> single HTTP POST request with a plain text body containing the order
> details. The server at your end will simply need to send this text to
> the printer.
>
> We will expect a 200 OK response from the server (the standard success
> response for HTTP). If we get any other response, or time out waiting
> for a response, we will make a single retry of the request. If the
> second attempt fails we will drop the order.
>
> I don't know if this s, but this is all the information I have

You need to create a page that accepts a form value, they need to tell
you the form field name. You then store this value in a database, or
have it emailed to a recipient, where you then print it.

You will need to do some coding here, what server languages does your
server support?

Steve

The server supports PHP, but I'm afraid it's PHP 4 although I do have access to a server with PHP 5. Also it has a MySQL database

Lucy4 wrote:
> The server supports PHP, but I'm afraid it's PHP 4 although I do have access to a server with PHP 5. Also it has a MySQL database

Either is fine, and having MySQL is good too. Dreamweaver should be able
to do this with its built in Server Behaviours.

I don't do PHP or MySQL myself, but the flow would be:

Receive form field
Insert into database

The database table should use a timestamp field to you know when
the order arrived. You will also want an auto ID field as your primary key.

You will then need to make a page that lists the orders, for this you
create the recordset, drag the timestamp onto the page and use a repeat
region, make the timestamp a link, using the ID field as a paremeter.

The page you just linked to will have a recordset that is filtered by
the ID that was passed in the Querystring. All this page does is display
the one column from the database that was passed from the IVR system.
You then print the page.

This should get you going in the right direction.

Steve

Thanks for that, I'll look into exactly how to do that