[RESOLVED] Using POST and GET

[Zoracle]

Right now when I'm trying to submit a form choice, I use the this javascript:
parent.location="page.php?choice="+temp;

But that actually puts the choice in the address bar which I don't want. If I POST the information, it won't come up there right? And if I do that, how do I POST information?

This is sort of a javascript and a php question I suppose. But I'd really appreciate any help you could give.

Thanks,
Z

[schwim]

Hi there,

<form method="post"> will set your form to pass the variables via post method.

To retrieve them on the processing page:

$variable = $_POST['variable'];

and you're all set!

thanks,
json

[Zoracle]

Let me give a few more details. I guess this is more of a javascript question. I want to filter my input with a javascript function and then post to the php page from that function, how do I do that?

Currently, this is the form I have:
<form name="emailform" method="post" action="javascript:submission();">
<input type="text" name="title" maxlength="150"><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit Title">
</form>

and this is my javascript:

function submission() {
temp=document.emailform.title.value;
if (temp=="") { alert("Please enter a title.");}
else {
if(isValid()) {
parent.location="vote.php?title="+temp;
}
else {
alert('Please enter a valid title. No more of this crazy scriptin!');
document.emailform.title.value = "";

}
}
}

currently I use the line:" parent.location="vote.php?title="+temp;"
to GET the information to the next page but I don't want the title to show up in the address bar. How can I do this?

[schwim]

Hi there zoracle,

Please excuse me for what may be a stupid question, but can you tell me what the variable being passed through js does, and why you need it? I think I can help you with an alternative, but looking at the js, it's not clear to me what it's function is(I may just be slow 🙂).

thanks,
json

[Zoracle]

Basially, this is a submission script. The user submits a title for a story that we will make up and of all the titles submitted, they're later voted on. This script is called by the form submit and filters out banned characters and then should post to the next page.

I think I have it figured out. Instead of setting the parent.location in the fucntion, I return the value true or false from the function to the form after an onSubmit command and then use the action command to go to the page I want.

It works, now I just need to get my cookies working. thanks for your help.