Global Values Passed with form submit

[rob51383]

Currently I am passing numerous global values from page to page through the URL (?value=value&....). I would like to pass them with <form method="post"> so they do not display in the URL but I am using <a href> links.

I know you can create a javascript generic form submitter but I would like to take it a step further. I want to avoid having to print a hidden input box for each link for each global value.

So what I need to do is have a farm of hidden boxes with the global values that get sent when you click a link like this:

You click this link:
<a href="script.php" id="2">Click Here</a>

And the values of this generic form are sent:
<form>
<input type="hidden" name="gv1" value="Global Value 1">
<input type="hidden" name="gv2" value="Global Value 2">
<input type="hidden" name="gv3" value="Global Value 3">
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="(a href id)">
</form>

So when you click the link the form "id" input box value is updated with "2" and the form is sent to the php script called in the <a href> tag.

Thanks in advanced for any help.

 

[theniteowl]

I think that using an HREF will cause you to lose your form data as the form is not submitted.

An alternative would be to use something like this.
<span onmouseover="this.style.cursor='hand'; this.style.color='0000A0'" onmouseout="this.style.cursor='auto'; this.style.color='black';" onclick="myfunction(1)">My first link</span>

The text in the span will act like an anchor tag but call a javascript function. In your function you can submit the form via code. You just need to set your form action and method in the HTML.

You could easily setup a style to control the mouseover/mouseoff bits rather than building them into each of the psuedo-links, this was just a quick way to show you how it could be done.

Others may have better approaches but the above should work for you.

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