POST variables without sending a form

[djr33]

I've looked around google and php.net, but no luck.

Is there any way to send post vars to another page?

Sending a form works, I suppose... but... kinda limited at times.

Is there any way around this?


Or, failing that, I know that an image can be an input for a form, but is there a way that a link could be a "submit button" like an image can?

[mwinter]

Is there any way to send post vars to another page?

From browser to server? The only reliable way is using a form.

Or, failing that, I know that an image can be an input for a form, but is there a way that a link could be a "submit button" like an image can?

Style the submit button to look like a link.

Mike

[Twey]

GET vars, yes. POST vars are trickier; PHP provides, insofar as I know, no direct support. Instead, you must use fsockopen() to connect with the server and construct the HTTP request yourself.

From browser to server? The only reliable way is using a form.

From PHP.

[djr33]

Twey, you seem to imply there might be a way with another setup? What is that, and how hard would it be?

And, could you provide a bit more info about the fsockopen, http request, etc? Totally new territory for me.


Mike, the only "reliable" way? What else?

And, how would one style a button like that?

[Twey]

Mike, the only "reliable" way? What else?

If Mike dismissed it as "unreliable," it's not worth doing In this case, it would likely involve XMLHttpRequest, which allows you to send POST data as an argument to the send() method, in the form send("name=value").

Twey, you seem to imply there might be a way with another setup? What is that, and how hard would it be?

I think libcurl provides handlers for this kind of thing, but I don't know anything about it.

And, could you provide a bit more info about the fsockopen, http request, etc? Totally new territory for me.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html
http://www.php.net/fsockopen

And, how would one style a button like that?

input.notAButtonHonest {
  border-style: none;
  background-color: transparent;
  color: blue;
  text-decoration: underline;
}

input.notAButtonHonest:visited {
  color: purple;
}

input.notAButtonHonest:active {
  color: red;
}