Submit form with PHP using href link

pollypocket4eva

Hi,
I am trying to figure out how I can submit a form to a php page just by clicking a link...

<form action="submit.php" method="post">
<a href="SOMETHING?"><? print($myvariable); ?></a>

Hard to describe... but rather than having a submit button for the form, I would like it to submit the form by clicking the link, where the link text is a printed variable from php.

Cheers

djjjozsi

i use it as radio button...

you can use it as a href

<a href="#" onClick='this.form.submit()'>Submit!</a>

NogDog

<form action="test2.php" method="post" name="the_form">
  <p>
    <input type="text" name="input" size="10" maxlength="10">
    <script type="text/javascript">
      document.write('<a href="" onclick="javascript:document.the_form.submit();return false;">Click Me<\/a>');
    </script>
    <noscript>
      <input type="submit" value="Click Me" 
style="border:none;background-color:transparent;color:blue;text-decoration:underline">
    </noscript>
  </p>
</form>

pollypocket4eva

Thank you.

Would doing the follow work?

<a href="test.php?variable=abc">abc</a>

... Meaning, is it possible to do something like this as an equivalent to $_POST?

Thanks

djjjozsi

its name is GET

you reach that variable, in test.php as

$_GET["variable"]

but if you have the chance use POST... Biggest data you could send with that, and cleaner than store data in URL.

pollypocket4eva

What? I want to call that link such that in test.php the value for "variable" becomes abc.

NogDog

If you submit that link, then in file test.php the super-global array element $_GET['variable'] will have a value of "abc".

djjjozsi

what you store in textfield, you will send that with POST, but a link is your submit "button"...

you can store fix values in hidden field as well, or store that in database or Session variables..

and store in URL site ID only, not personal data(username&password&email&mail-body)

so i don't know what's your aim with your question.

If its needed to store something in url,

use the <form method="POST" action="form_to.php?variable1=1&variable2=2">
....

and then you can use normal submit button

pollypocket4eva

It doesn't work for me

pollypocket4eva

Basically all i want to do is generate a link in a page that will call a php page and have the value of variable become "abc" so that I can use it in other lines of that php script.

djjjozsi

have you heard sessions before?

$_SESSION["generated_code"]="abc";

another page:
<?
session_start();

if(isset($SESSION["generated_code"]))
print $SESSION["generated_code"]." is the generated code";
else
header("Location: code_generator.php");
?>

NogDog

As I stated above, all you need is a link to something like filename.php?var=abc and then when clicked, in script filename.php access the value via the $_GET['var'] variable. What else do you need that that does not do for you? 😕