I have a form

<form method='post' action='action.php' name='myForm'>
  <input type='' name='id' value='id'>
  <script>document.myForm.submit();</script>
</form>

Can I submit this form without using JavaScript - only PHP without clicking on the submit button, automatically?

This form must be auto submitted on page load, but not using JavaScript (without onload)

I have a form

<form method='post' action='action.php' name='myForm'>
  <input type='' name='id' value='id'>
  <script>document.myForm.submit();</script>
</form>

Can I submit this form without using JavaScript - only PHP without clicking on the submit button, automatically?

This form must be auto submitted on page load, but not using JavaScript (without onload)

• php
• javascript
• forms
• post
• submit

• Are you wanting it to submit automatically when the page loads? – jprofitt Commented Apr 16, 2012 at 14:24
• You mean, you want to submit it by means of pure HTML? Then there are answers which show you how to do that. Or did you really mean submitting a form with PHP? I.e., server-side? – Dmytro Shevchenko Commented Apr 16, 2012 at 14:25
• you can create an http client in php to submit something with any html involved. – mpm Commented Apr 16, 2012 at 14:32
• I'm sure you could do it in Dart? – rlemon Commented Apr 16, 2012 at 14:33
• Why the down votes? Seems a perfectly reasonable question to me. Anyway, see my answer. – Dan Bray Commented Sep 14, 2017 at 22:06

5 Answers 5

The act of form submission is done on the client side (browser) and has very little to do with PHP (server side).

You could add a submit button like <input type='submit' value='click here to plete step' />

A form must be submit, by the client side. On client-side, there's only two way: by Javascript or by human (clicking on the submit button).

Why not just use the <input type="submit" /> like the following:

<form method='post' action='action.php' name='myForm'>
  <input type='text' name='id' value='id' />
  <input type='submit' name='submission' value='Submit id'>
</form>

add a submit button.

<input type="submit" value="Submit" />

Unfortunately, what you are trying to do is not possible. The best you can do is probably this:

<form method='post' action='action.php' name='myForm'>
    <input type='' name='id' value='id'>
    <input type='submit' id='submit-button' />
    <script>domument.getElementByID('submit-button').style.display="none";document.myForm.submit();</script>
</form>

A submit button is displayed when client side scripting is disabled. When it's enabled, the submit button is immediately hidden and the form is automatically submitted.

EDIT

Or you could simply include the PHP file. <?php include action.php; ?>. You won't have access to the _POST array, but considering, the client hasn't had chance to enter any data, that won't really matter.