Post variable with onclick?

Question

How can I $_POST information from one page to another by clicking a link? No forms or submit boxes, just if the end user clicks on a link, it will post pertinent information in the opened link.

Pseudocode, but:

//On first page
<a href="./page.php" onclick="post" value="var">Click me!</a>
...
//On the page the above links to
$variable = $_POST["var"];

Something that I considered is the following, which although less than pretty, works. I'd like it so it's a post and not a get.

//On first page
<a href="./page.php?var=<?php echo $variable; ?>">Click me!</a>
...
//On second page
$variable = $_GET["var"];

Answer 1

Try this :

<a href="link.php" class="post">submit content using link</a>

 <script type="text/javascript">
            jQuery(document).ready(function($){
                $(".post").on("click",function(){
                    $.ajax({
                        url: "http://www.yourwebsite.com/page.php",
                        type: "POST",
                        data: { name: "John", location: "Boston" },
                        success: function(response){
                              //do action  
                        },
                        error: function(){
                              // do action
                        }
                    });
                });
            });
        </script>

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Answer 2

Not sure why you don't do this:

//On first page

<a href="./page.php?var=value">Click me!</a>

... //On the page the above links to

$variable = $_GET['var'];

UPDATE:

As per your above comment:

GET displays the information in the URL, whereas with POST it does not. I do not wish an end user to just edit the URL with whatever value they wish. @popnoodles, when the user would click the hyperlink, it would direct to a new page. – riista

You are trying to do this for security reasons, as such neither approach is a good way to do it using GET or AJAX is both unsafe as both can be tampered with. You need to re-think what you are trying to protect and how you can check if the data submitted is valid.