[Resolved] Hyperlink Form Element

Kapow

I know this is more of a HTML question, but meh.

For my website I am going to have a php template page, which has placeholders which information is going to be loaded into. That is all fine.

The problem is POSTing the information to the webpage. What I want to do is POST, not using a submit button, but using a normal hyperlink. The reason for this is that I am going to have a list of games, and when you click the hyperlink, it POSTs information to the php page, and the specified game is loaded. For example, if I POSTed:

Game = "Kickboxing.swf"
Author = "James Brauman"
Type = "Action"

to it the Kickboxing game would be loaded, with the author placeholder filling in with James Brauman and the Type placeholder filling in with Action.

So yeah, my question is can I have a hyperlink to POST information to a php page? If not, is there a work-around?

Thanks! 🙂

bretticus

<a href='javascript:document.forms[0].submit'>label</a>

there is no space between java and script, this forum splits it (prob for xsite sec reasons.)

Kapow

thanks for the reply.

are there any other ways, creating a different form for each thing would be hard.

thanks

bretticus

I still do not see what you are after, post an mockup of some sort.

Kapow

It is for my games website. I want the games listed in a normal fashion with hyperlinks (v.s submit buttons!) and once clicked, I want it to POST (or maybe GET?) some varibles to my PHP page, as in what to load, description of game, etc. But I really do not want to make multiple forms for each as it will take ages.

Thanks for all your help, this is a really great replying forum!

🙂

bretticus

Then GET is your best friend!
BY the way, did you plan on using any PHP here? Those countless forms woudl be really easy if you looped them out of a database.

Kapow

Hey man! You rock! Thanks for all your quick replies to my newb questions!

Anyway, I just started looking at PHP yesterday, but already knowing Visual Basic, most of HTML, and Flash Actionscript (does that count?) I am sort of getting a grasp on it. Could you please provide an example of what you are trying to get at and maybe tell me some way that I could create a database?

Thanks 🙂

P.s I did not think GET was the best because some of the descriptions are a bit lengthy (30 words + ) and contain spaces.

bretticus

So when you say Visual Basic do you mean vbscript? And by that do you know asp? And have you ever worked with SQL Server and vbscript or asp? The concepts are basically the same. MySQL is the db of choice for most PHP coders. I suggest you read the manual to help you try and do some of the same things you may or may not have already done in asp/vbscript. If you are completely new to SQL, you can get more information about mysql here.

As for the 30+ words in the querystring issue, just use urlencode. Of course if you utilize a database correctly you could just pass an id and be hunky-dory.

Kapow

Sorry for the misunderstanding by Visual Basic I meant Visual Basic 6.0 (like for developing software not web applications)

thanks for all your help I will try those links and see what I find :p