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Hey everyone,

I'm working on a module that tracks IT Support Request tickets. The end user can enter their ticket ID and click on a "Modify" button to POST the variables back allowing them to edit the ticket. I would like to remove the button and allow the user to simply click on the ticket ID (in a table that pulls from SQL) and post back.

Can you POST from link with javascript? I'd really like to avoid using a button, it would clutter things up.

Any help is appreciated.

MJ

Look in the buttom form for the passed variable and add it into your link:

I've got several variables that are currently being passed with a submit button (POST). I would like to replace the button with a link. Does that make sense?

Sure does. Post the code from the button and I will show you what I mean.

Here's one example from the code:

echo "<tr><td></td><td><textarea rows=\"8\" cols=\"100\" name=\"new_notes\"></textarea></td></tr>"
."<tr><td></td><td align=left><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\"></td></tr>"
."<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"op\" value=\"new\">"
."<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"old_notes\" value=\"$modify_notes\">"
."<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ticket_id\" value=\"$modify_ticket_id\">"
."<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ticket_type\" value=\"$modify_ticket_type\">"
."<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"priority\" value=\"$modify_priority\">"
."<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"subject\" value=\"$modify_subject\">"
."<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"submitter\" value=\"$modify_submitter\">"
."</form></table>";

You will have to add every variable in that form into the link.

I've done that but it doesn't seem to work. I see the variables in the url but it's not executing the code in the file the way the button does. Thanks for looking.

Well for some crazy reason, I had to pull the POST data out using a new variable

$variable = $_POST['variable'];