Posted by Rik Wasmus on 01/14/08 22:32

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:57:26 +0100, <trpost@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am looking for a way to send data from one page to another as POST
> data without using forms or cURL.
>
> I have a php script that is passing a list of cases from on page to
> another when a link is clicked. This is working fine for the most part=

> as a link, but sometimes the list gets very large and gets cut off.
> The reason it gets cut off appears to be a limitation on the amount of=

> data that can be passesd in the URI.
>
> It looks like I can do this with cURL, but this script will run on
> several servers that do not have cURL compiled in and I do not want to=

> recompile now.
>
> I found a few posts that say this can be done with PHP and javascript,=

> but I found no good examples.
>
> To give you an example on what I am doing:
> <a href=3Dcase_details.php?cases=3D".$allCases."&priority=3DLow&PG=3DA=
ll>
> $count</a>
>
> $allCases is a comma separated list of numbers and can get very large.=

> i.e. 84638,48957,58945,45375,....

While you could 'cheat' by firing a XMLHTTPRequest which actually posts =
=

with javascript, this would not be very reliable, and for about 5%-15% o=
f =

the people just plain won't work.

As stated numerous times the last few weeks: you probably want to save t=
he =

data in a session. No posting/getting necessary, you allready have the =

data ready on your server.

However: can you tell why it is your link couldn't be a button that post=
s =

a form? Never make it harder on yourself then should be...
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Rik Wasmus

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