How to send POST information without user input

Ok, well basically I have a page with some variables which i want to send to a different page without using $_GET.. How the heck do i do this?

Thanks in advance.

 

WITHOUT user input? Research AJAX (which is JavaScript).

 

I know ajax, but i don't want to use it. I would like a solution using php hopefully.

 

Okay - I'm making some assumptions in answering your post. I'm guessing you mean you don't want a form post back.. you want an automated AJAX callback.

To accomplish this, you could code it in pure javascript, or use a framework. In the example below, I use jquery to accomplish it. One caveat you might not be aware of: Post callbacks can only be used on the same domain as the server sending the base page, so this won't work for submitting forms to other websites without the user's permission.

<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$.post("test.php", { var1: 'welcome', var2: 'home'});
});
</script>

 

PHP is all server-side. There's nothing client-side about it. The AJAX portion is the client-side code which loads another file which can execute the PHP that's inside the file it calls.

So basically, these two things are similar:
User input (clicking a link, submitting a form, etc) -> Loads a page -> PHP is executed in the page loaded -> Output is sent to user

AJAX through JavaScript -> Loads a page in the background -> PHP is executed on the page loaded -> Output is returned to the AJAX caller


Either way, you'll still have the PHP executed. I recommend using jQuery as the previous poster mentioned. Awesome framework. http://www.jquery.com/

 

Maybe he's looking more a server-side script to send POST data to another script?

If so, it would pay you to look into 'curl'...

 

I think that may be what im looking for. I'll take a look into it when I can.

Thank you!

 

Use sessions.

 

This is also how I got around this problem

 

<input type="hidden" value="<?php echo previuos data; ?>" />

 

How about cURL?

 

I'd do that if needing to transport variables across multiple form pages but I think he was looking for the solution sessions bring, so it doesn't require user interaction (that's how I picked it up anyway)