Trigger calling procedure, then commit problems

Question

I am new to this so please forgive my stupidity!
I have a trigger:
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER live_account_trigger
   AFTER INSERT
   ON sforce_live_test
   FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
   mapsapp.live_account_upsert;
END live_account_trigger;
/which calls a procedure:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE live_account_upsert
AS
   l_page   LONG;
   l_url    VARCHAR2 (1000) := 'http://sfdc-db-d1/~msimonds/live_upsert.php';
BEGIN
   --COMMIT;
   l_page := UTL_HTTP.request (l_url);
END;
/which invokes UTL_HTTP. What this process is supposed to do is set off a trigger to run the script in the procedure which simply inserts new records which are input into the table. Now if I do the following as a test:
insert into sforce_live_test (customer_name, schedule_id) values ('Fox and the Hound', 8020);
to kick off the trigger, the information is placed into the table and the script runs (it emails me to tell me it has processed) but the new data is not being sent to salesforce. It seems that it does not perform a COMMIT, becuase if I run the script via my web browser, it runs just fine after I run the script
What can I do to place a COMMIT into the procedure, because I get an error if I place it on

Answer 1

Okay that is a little beyond my knowledge at current time, i guess I need to do some research.
Maybe I need to explain what I am trying to accomplish and you could tell me if the JOB is the best solution before I continue:
We have an internal sales system which has all our major clients on it. New accounts are created and old accounts are updated from this internal system. Currently there is a view that is updated once every 24 hours from one Oracle DB to my instance of Oracle. I have a series of PHP account scripts that are set on CRON jobs that run once a week to send the new accounts and updated accounts to our instance of Salesforce.com over their API using SOAP
I created a staging table and the trigger which kicks off once an insert (for now, testing) into the staging table and then the UTL_HTTP to kick off a new account PHP script to send that transaction straight into salesforce. Kind of a live update instead of running the weekly CRON jobs
So I created this trigger (changed it since then to incorporate the procedure also):
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER MAPSDATA.live_account_trigger
   AFTER INSERT
   ON sforce_live_test
   FOR EACH ROW
DECLARE
   l_page   LONG;
   l_url    VARCHAR2 (1000) := 'http://sfdc-db-d1/~msimonds/live_upsert.php';
BEGIN
   l_page := UTL_HTTP.request (l_url);
END live_account_trigger;
/But if I do a test by simply doing something like this:
insert into sforce_live_test (customer_name, schedule_id) values ('Fred Flinstone', 9060); to kick off the trigger (Mask/Test the creation of a new account), it does not pick up Fred Flinstone when the UTL_HTTP runs, it only updates the current records which are in the table prior to the test insert above.