Question

I want to fake a page submit (post) on clicking a link. I need to pass two parameters in the post , the id (var “x” in the code below, and submitted=”true”) to the page index.php. I need to fake a submit (full page load) and not just an ajax request.

<a href="#" id="5" class="rootcontent">Title</a>

$("a.rootcontent").live('click', function(){
    var x= $(this).attr("id"); 
   //need the code to submit the page to index.php with two $_POST variables (x and submitted=true)
    });

Answer 1

A quick solution would be to append a form to the document and submit it. Something like the following (not tested, but it should work):

var form = $('<form method="post" id="form-to-be-submitted" action="/index.php"><input type="hidden" name="x" value="' + x + '"/><input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="true"/></form>');
$(document.body).append(form);
form.submit();