How can I hide the URL?

Anon

Hello,

Imagine I have this site, www.something.com and I press a link that goes to www.something.com/show_user.php?user=THK

I'd like to know if it's possible to hide the url of a link after pressing it, and keep showing the inicial URL on the browser's URL textfield.

Thanks in advance,
THK

aleph_x

You can do this with frames. I won't go into too much detail since its not to difficult to read up on. Just have the page you're linking to load up in a separate frame. That way the original URL will stay the same. If you don't want the surfer to know you're using frames, its not to hard to conceal. Hope this helps.

rrijnders

Or, if you just want to hide the varibles you are passing, put them into hidden form fields on the page, then add an "onclick" event in your <A> tag that calls a javascript function to post the hidden form. All of your variables will be passed, but since the "post" method is used instead of the "get" method, they will not show up in the address bar.

-- Rich

Anon

That's what I was looking for Richard, thank you very much.

I'm a newbie in HTML, can you tell me of a site where they explain how to do that, or can you please post a code sample that does that?

Thank you very much once again,
THK

rrijnders

Put this in between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags of your page:
<b>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript">
function postform() {
  document.hiddenform.submit();
}
</SCRIPT>
</b>

Then, somewhere on your page put:
<b>
<FORM NAME="hiddenform" ACTION="showuser.php" METHOD="POST">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="user" VALUE="THK">
</FORM>
</b>

Since this form has no submit buttons or anything, it won't be visible on the page.

Then, later in your page you can do like so:
<b>
<A HREf="Javascript: postform();">See Your Stuff!</A>
</b>

None of this is PHP, by the way. Also, this is just a convenient method to make your pages and page transitions look cleaner; it is by no means a secure way of passing data from one page to another! Somebody could always <i>View Source</i> on the page and see all the "hidden" variables you are passing from one page to another.

If you need security, use sessions and store the variables in session vars which only exist on your server and are never sent to the browser.

-- Rich

Anon

Thx once again Richard, I really understood it now 🙂

I'll look the PHP documentation for detailed information about the sessions.

THK