[RESOLVED] Pass information without a form?

[Brutal]

So far I have learned to pass information between pages by using FORM's and BUTTONS, and then write handlers for them.

The case I have right now is that I simply present a list with orders that I currently are monitoring, and at the end of every order I have implemented a button "Remove", that I can use IF I want to remove an order. I have also a button called "Edit" that I can use to simple edit an order.

But is there any other way to do this pretty simple task. All I really wanna send over is the orderID when I press remove, and it would look far nice if it was onlya a "Remove" url-link.

[cahva]

Offcourse you can. Just use put the variables in the Edit and Delete link. For example:

edit:
<a href="yourlink.php?edit=[orderID]">Edit</a>

delete:
<a href="yourlink.php?delete=[orderID]">Edit</a>

[orderID] you replace with the actual order id.

Now in yourlink.php you can access those easily with $GET['edit'] and $GET['delete']

if (!empty($_GET['delete'])) {
    // Do the deletion
}

Be careful with variables coming from url so make proper checks to them to eliminate sql injections etc.

[Brutal]

I've been using $POST technique so far, does that work the same way as with $GET? I mean, can I compose a URL the same way, and expect to extract that information using $_POST ?

[laserlight]

No, use $GET to access the data. Otherwise, the concepts are pretty much the same. You can even use $REQUEST to access post, get and cookie data from a single point of access.

[govivasanth]

No you can also use post method if you used AJAX but u can't send the edit and delete values along with the url.

[Brutal]

Ty all for your input. Got it working now! 😃

Cheers!