I have a form I am creating and I would like to send information, not just from the form itself (easy enough to do with $_POST), but also generated information that corresponds to form data but is not visible to the user.
I could create a hidden input to put the data in, but I wonder if there’s a way to do it that doesn’t seem so hackish 🙂
(it’s to submit a number of items, some new and some edited, I have a variable that increments for the edited ones but not the existing ones, and I need to be able to separate them out on the other end)
You’re trying to maintain state across HTTP requests…
In any case you’ll have to create a temporary variable server side. Something in the $_SESSION variable. There’s not safer place to put data, primarily because only the developer can access this variable.
The disadvantage of this approach is the developer will have to start maintaining sessions.