Form Submission with No Submit Button?

[duckduckgoose]

I'm using a combination of php and javascript and want to know if there's a way to check for submitted information if there's no submit button?

My javascript gathers information and essentially passes it to another form that consists of nothing more than the <form> tags. It's this <form> that then passes information to PHP for processing. Is there a way to tell if it's been submitted?

[NogDog]

If you're using the POST method in your form, the following will tell you that something was posted:

if(isset($_POST) and count($_POST) > 0)
{
  // .....
}

[bradgrafelman]

duckduckgoose wrote:

Is there a way to tell if it's been submitted?

You could check if anything at all was POSTed...

if(!empty($_POST)) {
   // something was POSTed...
}

Or, you could just check in the same way you would check for a form with a submit button: check to see if one of the elements you're expecting data from has been posted:

<form action="myScript.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="foobar!"/>
<input type="hidden" name="blah" value="blahblah..." />
</form>

if(isset($_POST['action'])) {
    // form was submitted...
}