Send POST data to PHP without using an HTML form?

Question

Is there anyway to send post data to a php script other than having a form? (Not using GET of course).

I want javascript to reload the page after X seconds and post

Answer 1

As requested above, here is how you could dynamically add a hidden form and submit it when you want to refresh the page.

Somewhere in your HTML:

And some Javascript:

function postRefreshPage () {
  var theForm, newInput1, newInput2;
  // Start by creating a 

  theForm = document.createElement('form');
  theForm.action = 'somepage.php';
  theForm.method = 'post';
  // Next create the s in the form and give them names and values
  newInput1 = document.createElement('input');
  newInput1.type = 'hidden';
  newInput1.name = 'input_1';
  newInput1.value = 'value 1';
  newInput2 = document.createElement('input');
  newInput2.type = 'hidden';
  newInput2.name = 'input_2';
  newInput2.value = 'value 2';
  // Now put everything together...
  theForm.appendChild(newInput1);
  theForm.appendChild(newInput2);
  // ...and it to the DOM...
  document.getElementById('hidden_form_container').appendChild(theForm);
  // ...and submit it
  theForm.submit();
}

This is equivalent to submitting this HTML form: