setting _post

[B.r.K.o.N.j.A.]

is there a way to set _post variables without submitting a form?

something like

<?php
$_POST['var1']=123;
?>
<a href="something.php">link</a>

when user clicks on a link the something.php script can access
$_POST['var1']

Regards,

Vedran

[Andy Hassall]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 23:37:19 +0100, "B.r.K.o.N.j.A." <th********@inet.hr>
wrote:

is there a way to set _post variables without submitting a form?

something like

<?php
$_POST['var1']=123;
?>
<a href="something.php">link</a>

when user clicks on a link the something.php script can access
$_POST['var1']

No. "Clicking a link" implies "GET".

Maybe there's a way with Javascript, submitting a method="post" form through
an onClick handler; try comp.lang.javascript if you want to try that
(unreliable) method.

--
Andy Hassall / <an**@andyh.co.uk> / <http://www.andyh.co.uk>
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[juglesh]

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On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 23:37:19 +0100, "B.r.K.o.N.j.A." <th********@inet.hr>
wrote:

is there a way to set _post variables without submitting a form? when user clicks on a link the something.php script can access
$_POST['var1']

No. "Clicking a link" implies "GET".

Maybe there's a way with Javascript, submitting a method="post" form
through
an onClick handler; try comp.lang.javascript if you want to try that
(unreliable) method.

this page: http://tom.me.uk/scripting/submit.asp gives a way around the
possibility of the user not having js, also, gives a way of doing it with
css.

I was wondering about this myself, thanks for reminding me.

So, I was wondering the pros and cons of doing this. It's be a pain when
you're trouble shooting, you wouldn't have an easy way of telling which
variables had been sent. The user couldn't bookmark your pages(well, they
would get the page with no variables set).

--
juglesh

[Kenneth Downs]

B.r.K.o.N.j.A. wrote:

is there a way to set _post variables without submitting a form?

something like

<?php
$_POST['var1']=123;
?>
<a href="something.php">link</a>

when user clicks on a link the something.php script can access
$_POST['var1']

Regards,

Vedran

It seems that what you want is for "var1" to exist and have the value 123
when the user goes to "something.php". Is this what you want? If so, then
the simplest is this:

<a href="something.php?var1=123">link</a>

....and then the variable will be in $_GET instead of $_POST, but what's the
difference?

If you want to get more complicated, you will need javascript, which IMHO is
actually a very good thing. In my world all of my users have this so it is
not a problem, but in some circles that would be a problem.

--
Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
(Ken)nneth@(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)

[B.r.K.o.N.j.A.]

...and then the variable will be in $_GET instead of $_POST, but what's the difference?

Well, there's a limit of _GET variables length, _POST doesn't have that
limitation (which is crucial for my choice of _POST over _GET)... well I
think I'll use session, objects and serialization ... that ought to do the
trick ... For what it's worth, I'm trying to make a display search result
script which allows user to choose "page" of results to go to (links) and
therefore I need to resend all the search words too... I'm trying to do this
cleanly and neatly so I can reuse this script many times :)

Regards,

Vedran