Question

I have 3 buttons (image links, eventually will evolve to javascript or something better though)

Each of these buttons should send a value to a handler script, which does choice 1 if button 1 is pressed, choice 2, so on and so forth.

I’m wondering what the best way to do this is. I DON’T WANT TO USE GET. I’d like to use POST if that’s possible but I don’t think it is. I thought about cookies too but the problem is even though you can call a JS function to create a cookie via a link, you can’t go to the PHP page for processing, within the same click can you?

It would work like the user clicks the button img, then it takes them to the handler script, but the handler redirects them back before they even know they were there.

Again this isn’t a form, I need to do this with a hyperlink. I suppose I could just have a different page for each choice, but I don’t think that’s efficient.

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you want the variables to be passed using POST, you could create a form on the page, and have your links execute some javascript code at onClick. They’d set the variable to the desired value, then submit the form. The key lines would be something like:

document.getElementById("user_choice").value = 2;   // or whatever the value for this link is
document.getElementById("my_form").submit();