http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:01:14 GMT DZone Snippets: programmatically code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5154 It´s something quite easy but may help a newby (as I´m now) in the future. <br />This is a simple function in PHP to insert a JavaScript sentence which will do the same action as if the user would be pressing the Submit Button. <br />It can be used to use any control as a Submit Button or in case you make a form you need to send without interaction from the user. <br />the $FormName must be the name specified in the Form tag (i.e.: <form action="MyActionURL" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" name="MyFormName">), if you didn´t specified any, you must now :) <br />Lastly, just a tip regarding a trouble I had and may be you case too... if you have a form with all hidden fields, it won´t work, you have to have at least something echoed inside the form, just a letter can help, anyway, as it will redirect to the action URL, it should not be a problem as the form will disappear. <br /> <br /><code> <br />function SubmitForm($FormName) <br />//JavaScript function to submit a form programmatically <br />//$FormName must be form´s name (as specified in the opening form tag) <br />{ <br /> echo '<script language="javascript">document.'.$FormName.'.submit()</script>'; <br />} <br /></code> Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:23:28 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5154 dneuma (Daniel Neumann)