Question

In HTML, you can send data from one page to another using a GET request in a couple of ways:

http://www.example.com/somepage.php?data=1 

…or…

<form action='somepage.php' method='get'>   <input type='hidden' name='data' value='1' />   <input type='submit' value='Submit'> </form> 

With a POST request though, I’ve only seen data being sent through form elements like this:

<form action='somepage.php' method='post'>   <input type='hidden' name='data' value='1' />   <input type='submit' value='Submit'> </form> 

If I only have one parameter I want to send to another page using POST, is there an easier way than wrapping it in a form?

Answer 1

There are only two ways to POST from a browser – a form, or an Ajax request.