Posted by tony on 06/07/06 10:38

Is it possible to use the post method to send a form from PHP without
having to put the form in a html page?

<form action="https://www.mysite.com/cgi/incoming.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="data01" value="12">
<input type="hidden" name="data02" value="rejected">
<input type="hidden" name="star" value="sirius">
<input type="image" src="https://www.mysite.com/grid001/image1.gif"
border="0" name="submit" alt="send data">
</form>

What I would like to do is make the use of this form as invisible to the
user as possible by

1. getting rid of the image (but then how do I "post" it)
2. putting PHP variables into the value fields
3. send the form

The PHP variables are set up as in
$data01 = 12;
$data02 = 'rejected'
etc
then

after just including it as in "include_once('senddata.php'); the form
above is in senddata.php and just gets posted

I've been looking at this and can't see how without having to include the
form on a html page. I looked at document.write but that again is
javascript.

Can this be done with just PHP?

thanks

tony

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