posting from a form without a submit button - how?

[Hal Halloway]

Given something like:

if ( $_POST['type_save'] == 'Save record to HTGI public DB') {
echo '<form method="post" action="populate08.php">';
echo '<input type=hidden name="kw_tarea" value='.$tk.'>';
echo '</form>';
echo '<p>permanent DB updated';
}

But there's no button to press for a submit. So how do I get this code
posted to the action=populate08 ? Without pressing a buttom but just
from the code?

Thanks

[Jerry Gitomer]

Hal Halloway wrote:

Given something like:

if ( $_POST['type_save'] == 'Save record to HTGI public DB') {
echo '<form method="post" action="populate08.php">';
echo '<input type=hidden name="kw_tarea" value='.$tk.'>';
echo '</form>';
echo '<p>permanent DB updated';
}

But there's no button to press for a submit. So how do I get this code
posted to the action=populate08 ? Without pressing a buttom but just
from the code?

Thanks

Updating your database without having the user expressly desire
to do so is not a good idea.

Unless you give the user a chance to look over what they have
done before doing a database update or insert and then expressly
approve by pressing a button you significantly increase the
probability of having corrupt data.

Jerry

[Hal Halloway]

Jerry Gitomer wrote:

Hal Halloway wrote:

Given something like:

if ( $_POST['type_save'] == 'Save record to HTGI public DB') {
echo '<form method="post" action="populate08.php">';
echo '<input type=hidden name="kw_tarea" value='.$tk.'>';
echo '</form>';
echo '<p>permanent DB updated';
}

But there's no button to press for a submit. So how do I get this code
posted to the action=populate08 ? Without pressing a buttom but just
from the code?

Thanks

Updating your database without having the user expressly desire to do so
is not a good idea.

Good advice and I'm changing my layout and code to reflect it. Thanks!

Unless you give the user a chance to look over what they have done
before doing a database update or insert and then expressly approve by
pressing a button you significantly increase the probability of having
corrupt data.

Jerry