How do you pass POST data without submitting a form

PHP
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I am validating a form. Typically, I submit a form to the same page it is on, so if something fails validation, the data I need is already on the right page and I just repopulate the forms fields.

Now I am submitting a form to a different page, that just processes the data. So if something fails validation I want to send all of the POST data back to the form page so I can repopulate the values.

Can someone please explain if it’s possible to send POST data this way and how it can be done.

Thanks.

2

CURL, for all intents and purposes, is a browser - it can POST data. What you can’t do is use a redirect to send a browser to a page with POST data, that is, you can’t process the data on page2 and send the browser back to page1 with POST data. Do what guido suggested, use the session, or the GET query string.

3

Ahh but it can…
page 1
start sessions
check to see if bad_data is true
if bad_data = true then get the data from the session variables and display form with data
if bad_data is false then display empty form

page 2

  1. start sessions
  2. obtain the posted data
  3. validate data
    if bad…
    create session variables containing the posted data
    set bad_data (session variable) to true
    send back to page 1

if not bad - continue with processing

4

ok, thank you.

5

You can’t. Use your first solution, send the values in the query string, or save them in session variables.

6

can’t CURL be used for this?