Automatically submit form?

TrickyPhillips

What's the easiest way to automatically submit a form on page load? I can't use "<body onload", because I'm using a global header with "include(header.php)".

Any suggestions?
Thanks.

halojoy

Originally posted by TrickyPhillips
1. - What's the easiest way to automatically submit a form on page load?

( I can't use "<body onload", because I'm using a global header with "include(header.php)" )

the whole point of using a form
is to give people a chance to add some data, then click 'submit'
= user submitted data

so, you want to use a form,
that redirects BEFORE anyone has any chance of adding some data ...
well, you are cruel, I must say 😃

In this case, you should NOT use any form.
Just some other way to transport your Variables values.
for example use $_SESSION to store values in one page,
then read these values, in the other, redirected to page

🙂

TrickyPhillips

I have an upload script that posts data to iteself. I want the data that's posted (The URL of the file that was uploaded) to be carried to a second page where users can name and categorize the file. Right now, I let them press a "Next" button, but I believe it would be nicer to process it for them.

upload.php ->
upload.php (Has URL data in variable) ->
additem.php

I wanted to skip the second step altogether, so users don't have to worry about the "Next Step" button.

I guess I'll just stop being lazy, and combine upload.php and additem.php into one script. :rolleyes:

konsu

either do a http redirect or do something similar to server's internal redirect. form submission on load is not necessary, and is very similar to http redirects unless you have to use the POST verb in your redirects, which i doubt.

TrickyPhillips

I combined the two scripts, and got things working fine.

Thanks. 🙂

drew010

just for future reference, its possible to use javascript to submit a form automatically.
Syntax would be
document.forms.FormName.submit()
You could use setTimeout or something like that to trigger it after a certain number of seconds.