Question

I’m currently busy with PHP and thought of sending a POST request to another page without a form to do so. But how do you do this? I googled a bit and saw that cURL was used: is this the best way to go or can you do it (easy) without it?

I was thinking of making a small page where suggestions can be placed and you could decline / accept them. The suggestions are loaded from a (MySQL) database and presented along with an accept and decline button. If accept is clicked i would like to send the parameters to a page that accepts POST as in this way:

if(isset($_POST['name'] && isset($_POST['text'])) 
{
    // ...
}

I do know this can be done with $_GET, but i’d like to do it by $_POST for a change.

Answer 1

Use jQuery to do a post request. More information can be found here.

An example would be:

$.post('ajax/test.html', function(data) {
  $('.result').html(data);
});

If you have difficulty implementing, feel free to ask further.