Can PHP Post without a form?

[Larry L [in Honolulu]]

I have a dropdown list dynamically created in a form by PHP from a MySql
table. This is the only element on the page. For some records there is only
a single selection, and if that's the case I'd like to just post that and
go to the next page. Is there a simple way to do that using POST? I know
how to do it with GET, but don't like the resulting URLs.

Or is there a simpler method I'm not thinking about?

Thanks,
Larry

[Toby A Inkster]

bill wrote:

Michael Fesser wrote:

>header("Locati on: http://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}/pag2.php");
The URL must be absolute.

why ?

HTTP/1.1 spec says so.

Most browsers do support relative URLs in Location headers, but it's unwise
to rely on that.

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[bill]

Toby A Inkster wrote:

bill wrote:

>Michael Fesser wrote:

>>header("Locat ion: http://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}/pag2.php");
The URL must be absolute.

why ?

HTTP/1.1 spec says so.

Most browsers do support relative URLs in Location headers, but it's unwise
to rely on that.

Thanks to you both.

[Sanders Kaufman]

Larry L [in Honolulu] wrote:

I have a dropdown list dynamically created in a form by PHP from a MySql
table. This is the only element on the page. For some records there is only
a single selection, and if that's the case I'd like to just post that and
go to the next page. Is there a simple way to do that using POST? I know
how to do it with GET, but don't like the resulting URLs.

Or is there a simpler method I'm not thinking about?

Thanks,
Larry

You're looking for a Javascript solution - client side, you know.
There's a submit() function that you can programatically fire in JS to
have the page submit a form.

<a href="javascrip t:submit();">Su bmit</a>

It'll retain that hyperlink look and feel, but actually be a post
instead of a get.