I need an action page to perform action but not display

<cfhttp method="Post" url="http://address.of.target.site/page-on-target-site?variable=value&variable_2=value_2&variable-3=value_3&etc=etc">

<cfhttpparam type="CGI"

   value="a"

   name="a"></cfhttp>

This should do what you are asking.

You can load all of the variables and values of those variables (order numbers, product id, price, etc) directly into the url= part of the cfhttp line.

You then create the cfhttpparam line exactly as I have it above.. because, for whatever reason, cfhttp likes to throw an error if there are no cfhttpparam's set - even if those parameters are meaningless.  The one I have above basically creates an a=a parameter, which (unless the target site actually uses 'a' as a variable name) should be meaningless, yet allow the cfhttp code to function.

I use code like this to automatically load xml sitemaps for pages to a variety of sites that use them to index for search engines and rss feeds.  It causes the 'insert' to work just fine, without ever showing anything on the users browser that it even happened at all.

If you need to verify that things are working correctly while you test this out,  simply add the following snippet of code after the cfhttpparam tag:

<cfoutput>
File Content:<br>
#cfhttp.filecontent#<br>
</cfoutput>

This will cause whatever results that normally would be displayed on the 'target web page' (if the information was being put into that page directly ON that target page instead of 'remotely') to show up on your page.   Once you're happy with the results, just delete the File Content snippet and you should be good to go.

WHeis

There are several ways you could do something like this.

Whcih ones you choose would start with how you plan to get the data from the client to the server.

If you want to do basic form submits, then the action page has to do something to either display the resluts OR to redirect the client to a page that displays the results.  Even if the result is just the same page the user was already on.

If you wish to use AJAX to have JavaScript submit the data to the server, it could easily be done behind the scenes.