Question

I’m working with a page where I’m trying to submit data when a link is clicked. I already know how to do this with POST and GET using javascript buttons, but how do I get the same effect when I’m working with HTML links?

Answer 1

If you have a plain link you can pass them as query parameters on the link (which is a GET operation)

<a href='/myapp/somecontroller.php?id=17&name=fred'>Save</a> 

If you have a plain HTML form with no javascript to handle the button press you can put things in hidden fields

<form name='theform' method='post' action='/myapp/somecontroller.php'> <input type='hidden' name='id' value='17'> <input type='hidden' name='name' value='fred'>  ... </form> 

This doesn’t require any javascript.