How do you post data with a link

Question

I have a database which holds the residents of each house in a certain street. I have a 'house view' php web page which can display an individual house and residents when given the house number using 'post'. I also have a 'street view' web page which gives a list of houses. What I want to know is if you can have links on the street view which will link to the house view and post the house number at the same time without setting up a form for each?

Regards

Answer 1

If you want to pass the data using POST instead of GET, you can do it using a combination of PHP and JavaScript, like this:

function formSubmit(house_number)
{
  document.forms[0].house_number.value = house_number;
  document.forms[0].submit();
}

Then in PHP you loop through the house-numbers, and create links to the JavaScript function, like this:

<form action="house.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="house_number" value="-1">

<?php
foreach ($houses as $id => name)
{
    echo "<a href=\"javascript:formSubmit($id);\">$name</a>\n";
}
?>
</form>

That way you just have one form whose hidden variable(s) get modified according to which link you click on. Then JavaScript submits the form.

Answer 2

I assume that each house is stored in its own table and has an 'id' field, e.g house id. So when you loop through the houses and display them, you could do something like this:

<a href="house.php?id=<?php echo $house_id;?>">
  <?php echo $house_name;?>
</a>

Then in house.php, you would get the house id using $_GET['id'], validate it using is_numeric() and then display its info.

Answer 3

You cannot make POST HTTP Requests by <a href="some_script.php">some_script</a>

Just open your house.php, find in it where you have $house = $_POST['houseVar'] and change it to:

isset($_POST['houseVar']) ? $house = $_POST['houseVar'] : $house = $_GET['houseVar']

And in the streeview.php make links like that:

<a href="house.php?houseVar=$houseNum"></a>

Or something else. I just don't know your files and what inside it.

Answer 4

This is an old thread but just in case anyone does come across i think the most direct solution is to use CSS to make a traditional form look like an anchor-link.

@ben is correct you can use php and javascript to send a post with a link, but lets ask what the js does -- essentially it creates a form with style='display:none' sets an input/text line with value='something' and then submits it.

however you can skip all this by making a form. setting style='display:none' on the input/text lines (not the form itself as above) and then using CSS to make the button look like a normal link.

here is an example is i use:

in PHP Class,

public function styleButton($style,$text){
    $html_str = "<form id='view_form' action='".$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']."' method='post' >";
    $html_str .= "<input style='display:none;' name='list_style' type='text' value='".$style."' >";
    $html_str .= "<input id='view_button' type='submit' value='".$text."' >";
    $html_str .= "</form>";
    return $html_str;
}

Then in the CSS id="view_form" set "display:inline;" and in the CSS id="view_button" set to something like: "background:none;border:none;color:#fff;cursor:pointer"

Answer 5

I would just use a value in the querystring to pass the required information to the next page.