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Plummer
Plummer

Reputation: 6688

HTML Form POST re-writing action attribute

I have an HTML form that I'm trying to get to post with part of a query string already inplace, but it keeps re-writing the URL.

<form id="mls_form" action="/index.php?option=com_mls&view=mls" method="get">
    <label>MLS#:</label>
    <input type="text" name="mlsnum" />
    <input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>

Output is:

http://www.mysite.com/index.php?mlsnum=value

It seems really simple, but I don't know why it's re-writing the action attribute.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 177

Answers (2)

JJJ
JJJ

Reputation: 33163

If you must use GET you can give the additional parameters as hidden input fields.

<form id="mls_form" action="/index.php" method="GET">
    <input type="hidden" name="option" value="com_mls" />
    <input type="hidden" name="view" value="mls" />
    <label>MLS#:</label>
    <input type="text" name="mlsnum" />
    <input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>

Upvotes: 1

Barmar
Barmar

Reputation: 781004

Use the POST method rather than the GET method. The URL parameters will be sent as specified in the action attribute, and the form inputs will be sent in the post data. Your server script can then read them each using whatever API is appropriate (in PHP, $_GET versus $_POST, or find them all in $_REQUEST).

Upvotes: 2

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