Submitting to a php form handler with only a simple hyperlink

[macklin01]

Hi, everybody.

I'm trying to do some last cleaning up on the following php page I wrote:

http://www.math.uci.edu/~pmacklin/Publications.php

This URL parses an XML file of publications:

http://www.math.uci.edu/~pmacklin/Publications.xml

It inserts DOI (digital object identifier), BibTeX (bibliography for LaTeX), PDF, and abstract links when the information is defined for a publication entry.

My problem is on the abstract portion. Right now, I just have links of the form

<a href="php_functions/abstract.php?Abstract=<string>&amp;Title=<string>">[Abstract]</a>

That passes the abstract and title information over to a very simple abstract.php page, which pastes the appropriate text in the appropriate places. (Just try clicking one.) It uses

$abstract = $_GET['Abstract'];
$title = $_GET['Title'];

to get the info from the URL for the page.

Okay, so there's the background information. Now, for the question:

Is there any way to get rid of all the mess in the URL, perhaps by using a hidden form? I'd still like it to appear as a simple HTML text link on the Publications.ph p page. Please excuse my noobiness on PHP--I'm fairly amateur at PHP. I'm still tickled pink just to have written a simple and robust XML parser with objects for PublicationItem s, etc. :)

Thanks in advance for any recommendations !! -- Paul

[ronverdonk]

You could use CURL and POST the variables to the destination script. That way no one can see or copy it.

Ronald :cool: