Posted by Simon Rigby on 07/24/06 11:50

It fails .. but this is an intranet and Javascript is enabled by
company policy as the intranet makes heavy use of javascript already.

Sorry I should stated that :)

Thanks.
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Simon Rigby wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > Ive seen lots of recommendations to not try to do what Im trying to do
> > but let me put it this way and hopefully someone can tell if this is a
> > good idea or not (or an alternative).
> >
> > What Im trying to do is this. I have a series of links that when
> > clicked will navigate to a common page passing in a value encoded in
> > the link. For reasons not worth going into I cant use a querystring.
> >
> > I was hoping to call a javascript function from the onclick event of
> > the link, then assign a new $_POST variable and then submit the form
> > (hence enabling me to read the $_POST value from the receiving page.
> >
> > Im aware that I could do the same thing with a $_SESSION but as this is
> > the last stage of this app and I havent had to use sessions yet I was
> > hoping to avoid it (for no real reason admittedly - I just got
> > interested in the solution above as an idea).
> >
> > I hope this is clear.
> >
> > Regards
> > Simon Rigby
> >
>
> And what happens if the user has javascript disabled?
>
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