Question

I need to make a table with clickable rows (for this I found some Javascript solutions).
When I click one row, a form will be filled with data from the clicked row.

But I don’t know how to send the data from HTML table to PHP, when I click on that row. Data must be sent as POST, as I mentioned in title.

I have no idea how to start, so I cannot show you nothing. Using multiple forms inside one table is not allowed, <a> tag around <td> is not allowed either, so I’m stuck.
From what I searched on web, the solution would be AJAX, but I’m not familiarized with it, never used AJAX, so if possible, a non-AJAX solution would be much appreciated. If not, please show me a functional example.

EDIT solved

In the end I did it without any AJAX, thanks to ideas from emartel and Guerra.
I made a single form with a hidden input field and I submitted it programatically, after I collected the required data from the row I clicked on.

I echoed the tr tags like this: <tr data-id=$id_from_db onclick="submit_id(this)">.

    function submit_id(tableRow) {
        //get ID
        var myID = tableRow.dataset.id;

        //set ID
        var setID       = document.getElementById('order_id');
            setID.value = myID;

        //submit
        var form = document.getElementById('myform');
        form.submit();
    };

P.S. I tried to embed some PHP code, but I failed, it didn’t shown on page.

Answer 1

After filling your form (name="myform" and method="post") from JavaScript, simply call:

document.myform.submit();

This should do the work