Send to paypal while account is being created

[SixDeep]

This being my first post, I would like to thank all of you for helping me demistify the account creation process. You will recognize the scripts I have used. What I would like to do is this;

The new hosting client fills out a form, after submit they get sent to Paypal immediately. While they are at Paypal paying for their hosting, my account creation script kicks in and does its work. By the time they are finished with paypal, they are brought back to my site and they never had to sit through that wait. Make sense?

I am trying this with a header redirect at the top, but it still makes me sit through the account creation process, then sends me over to paypal afterwards.

This is my current code

header ("location: http://www.paypal.com");
require '/usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/Accounting.php.inc';
    $host = "localhost";
    $user = "WHM Username";
    $accesshash =  "WHM Access Key";    

$usessl = "0"; 
//this section takes the info from the form, putting it into variables for the below section
$acctdomain = $_POST['domain'];
$acctuser = $_POST['username'];
$acctpass = $_POST['password'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$acctplan = "HOSTING PLAN GOES HERE";
$do = createacct($host,$user,$accesshash,$usessl,$acctdomain,$acctuser,$acctpass,$acctplan,$email);
//way to get their contact email associated with their acct
$objFile = fopen("dump/contactemail_". $acctuser .".txt", "w+");
fwrite($objFile, $email);
fclose($objFile);
$conn_id = ftp_connect("nn.nnn.nn.nn");
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $acctuser, $acctpass);
$upload = ftp_put($conn_id, ".contactemail", "dump/contactemail_". $acctuser .".txt", FTP_BINARY); 
if (!eregi("wwwacct creation finished",$do)){
echo "There has been a problem with your account creation!<br>Please contact support for help!";
}
else
{
}
?> 

Suggestions?

[AndyReed]

With my respect, your question has nothing to do with the cPanel. You can try one of these two forums:
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum31.html
or
http://www.phpbuilder.com/

[SixDeep]

I can see why it would appear that way lol

The only reason why I asked is because perhaps some other folks here might have something similiar setup as far as account creation/payment gateway goes. I am trying to build up a hosting and billing system from scratch since I'm not really too pleased with Whoiscart and was hoping for more indepth control features. I will keep tinkering, thanks for the heads up.

[dave9000]

give modernbill a look at it will fully manage a cpanel server account

www.modernbill.com

[SixDeep]

thanks. yea looked into that one a while ago. I guess I'm somewhat of a control freak when it comes to my site and its functions. If something goes down, I wanna be accountable and I wanna be able to fix it.

Also, it's a nice bit of php education to get under the belt

Thanks though!

[dave9000]

It will be a nice education in php and cpanel to do that, My problem is not the skill part as much as the hours required to implement and debug

If you got the time go for it, Wish ya good luck

[Game Wizards]

I think you would need to fork a background process and then continue redirecting them to PayPal.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/71/0.php