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

User · Accepted Answer

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.

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You cannot make POST HTTP Requests by  lt a href  some script php  gt some script lt  a gt   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    lt a href  house php houseVar  houseNum  gt  lt  a gt   Or something else  I just don t know your files and what inside it

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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     lt form id  view form  action      SERVER  REQUEST URI      method  post   gt         html str      lt input style  display none   name  list style  type  text  value     style     gt         html str      lt input id  view button  type  submit  value     text     gt         html str      lt  form gt        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

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This post was helpful for my project hence I thought of sharing my experience as well  The essential thing to note is that the POST request is possible only with a form  I had a similar requirement as I was trying to render a page with ejs  I needed to render a navigation with a list of items that would essentially be hyperlinks and when user selects any one of them  the server responds with appropriate information   so I basically created each of the navigation items as a form using a loop as follows    x000D   x000D   lt ul gt  x000D      begin loop    x000D           lt li gt  x000D               lt form action     method  post  gt  x000D                   lt input type  hidden  name  country  value  India   gt  x000D                   lt button type  submit  name  button  gt India lt  button gt  x000D               lt  form gt                 x000D           lt  li gt  x000D      end loop  x000D   lt  ul gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    what it did is to create a form with hidden input with a value assigned same as the text on the button  So the end user will see only text from the button and when clicked  will send a post request to the server   Note that the value parameter of the input box and the Button text are exactly same and were values passed using ejs that I have not shown in this example above to keep the code simple   here is a screen shot of the navigation    enter image description here

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You cannot make POST HTTP Requests by  lt a href  some script php  gt some script lt  a gt   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    lt a href  house php houseVar  houseNum  gt  lt  a gt   Or something else  I just don t know your files and what inside it

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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    lt form action  house php  method  POST  gt   lt input type  hidden  name  house number  value  -1  gt    lt  php foreach   houses as  id   gt  name        echo   lt a href   javascript formSubmit  id     gt  name lt  a gt  n       gt   lt  form gt    That way you just have one form whose hidden variable s  get modified according to which link you click on  Then JavasScript submits the form

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

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You cannot make POST HTTP Requests by  lt a href  some script php  gt some script lt  a gt   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    lt a href  house php houseVar  houseNum  gt  lt  a gt   Or something else  I just don t know your files and what inside it

User · Answer

This post was helpful for my project hence I thought of sharing my experience as well  The essential thing to note is that the POST request is possible only with a form  I had a similar requirement as I was trying to render a page with ejs  I needed to render a navigation with a list of items that would essentially be hyperlinks and when user selects any one of them  the server responds with appropriate information   so I basically created each of the navigation items as a form using a loop as follows    x000D   x000D   lt ul gt  x000D      begin loop    x000D           lt li gt  x000D               lt form action     method  post  gt  x000D                   lt input type  hidden  name  country  value  India   gt  x000D                   lt button type  submit  name  button  gt India lt  button gt  x000D               lt  form gt                 x000D           lt  li gt  x000D      end loop  x000D   lt  ul gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    what it did is to create a form with hidden input with a value assigned same as the text on the button  So the end user will see only text from the button and when clicked  will send a post request to the server   Note that the value parameter of the input box and the Button text are exactly same and were values passed using ejs that I have not shown in this example above to keep the code simple   here is a screen shot of the navigation    enter image description here

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

User · Answer

You cannot make POST HTTP Requests by  lt a href  some script php  gt some script lt  a gt   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    lt a href  house php houseVar  houseNum  gt  lt  a gt   Or something else  I just don t know your files and what inside it

User · Answer

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     lt form id  view form  action      SERVER  REQUEST URI      method  post   gt         html str      lt input style  display none   name  list style  type  text  value     style     gt         html str      lt input id  view button  type  submit  value     text     gt         html str      lt  form gt        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

User · Answer

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    lt form action  house php  method  POST  gt   lt input type  hidden  name  house number  value  -1  gt    lt  php foreach   houses as  id   gt  name        echo   lt a href   javascript formSubmit  id     gt  name lt  a gt  n       gt   lt  form gt    That way you just have one form whose hidden variable s  get modified according to which link you click on  Then JavasScript submits the form

User · Answer

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    lt form action  house php  method  POST  gt   lt input type  hidden  name  house number  value  -1  gt    lt  php foreach   houses as  id   gt  name        echo   lt a href   javascript formSubmit  id     gt  name lt  a gt  n       gt   lt  form gt    That way you just have one form whose hidden variable s  get modified according to which link you click on  Then JavasScript submits the form

User · Answer

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

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We should make everything easier for everyone because you can simply combine JS to PHP Combining PHP and JS is pretty easy    house number   HOUSE NUMBER  echo   lt script type  text javascript  gt document forms 0  house number value    house number  document forms 0  submit    lt  script gt      Or a somewhat safer way   house number   HOUSE NUMBER  echo   lt script type  text javascript  gt document forms 0  house number value        house number      document forms 0  submit    lt  script gt

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

User · Answer

We should make everything easier for everyone because you can simply combine JS to PHP Combining PHP and JS is pretty easy    house number   HOUSE NUMBER  echo   lt script type  text javascript  gt document forms 0  house number value    house number  document forms 0  submit    lt  script gt      Or a somewhat safer way   house number   HOUSE NUMBER  echo   lt script type  text javascript  gt document forms 0  house number value        house number      document forms 0  submit    lt  script gt

User · Answer

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    lt form action  house php  method  POST  gt   lt input type  hidden  name  house number  value  -1  gt    lt  php foreach   houses as  id   gt  name        echo   lt a href   javascript formSubmit  id     gt  name lt  a gt  n       gt   lt  form gt    That way you just have one form whose hidden variable s  get modified according to which link you click on  Then JavasScript submits the form

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