I'm trying to get my CGI program to send certain information when you click on a link. It has to set a couple of variables, and then submit the information to the next CGI script. The only way I know of is by using Javascript, in this awfully messy way:
print '
<form name="theform" action="page2.cgi" method="post">
<input type=hidden name=x>
<input type=hidden name=y>
</form>
<a href=javascript:document.theform.x.value=5;
javascript:document.theform.y.value=7;
javascript:document.theform.submit();>
hello<\/a>
';
Is there a cleverer way to do this?
I also, if you pardon the heresy, tried doing it with PHP and session variables, but I couldn't figure out any way to get that working either.
