I swear I'vd done this before

[mjs1138]

I want to assign to a key / value pair to the $POST array and have it available in the php file assigned to the form's action tag. I swear I've done this before but after beating it up for hours now I can't seem to make it work. What I want to do is:

$_POST['a'] = 7;

Isn't this possible?

Thanks --- Mike

[Krik]

No its not possible.

Of course you can assign the values to the $_SESSION[] so that may be an option. And that would require you to use the "session_start()".

The only other way is to send the data would be via a form. Which is relatively easy to do and hide for the user. All you do is make hidden input fields with the data and then use CSS to make a submit button look like a link.

[NogDog]

I'm not entirely sure what you want, but if the form is using the post method, you can add variables to the form action URL so that they are available in the $_GET array:

<form action="some_page.php?var1=<?php
echo htmlspecialchars($var1, ENT_QUOTES);
?>" method="post">

It's probably cleaner though to use a hidden form field for that sort of thing.

[bretticus]

Right, your browser has to write a post line in the header. Without using ajax there is no other way than to simply use a hidden form field in your html.

[mjs1138]

Hi All. Thanks for the replies. I'll look into hidden fields.

--- Mike