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Is there a way to submit a form when the page is loaded? I have tried examples in this forum and been unable to solve my problem. I want to emulate a user entering the page and pressing the submit button.
Thanks

Don't u have to enter details in form fields????

It was late and I was stuck on this method of solving the problem. Took a fresh approach this morning and all woks fine now
thanks

It was late and I was stuck on this method of solving the problem. Took a fresh approach this morning and all woks fine now
thanks

Even though you have already figured this out a different way - submitting a form when the page loads is very simple and there are cases where this can be used (I have had to use this before). Simply add this to your body tag.

<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>&lt;body onLoad="document.formName.submit()"&gt;
</font id=code></pre id=code>

But if somefing needs to be posted from a form, so how can you post something that hasn't been entered?? I must be missing something.

One thing that I have used this method for in the past is submitting data to a database that has been stored in session variables or cookies. You place that data into a hidden form variable and submit it when the page loads.

Edited by - flexman44 on 25 Jul 2006 00:46:23

Ok but doesn't it have to be entered somewhere 1st???

With a hidden form field (or any for field i guess) you can enter the default value. So, what i would do is set the default value of the hidden form field to the value of the variable that I had stored, and then submit it. You don't have to manually fill something out.

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Even though you have already figured this out a different way - submitting a form when the page loads is very simple and there are cases where this can be used (I have had to use this before). Simply add this to your body tag.

<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>&lt;body onLoad="document.formName.submit()"&gt;
</font id=code></pre id=code>
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But the form is inside the body tag?

Thanks.

Yes, the form would need to be located with the body tag. You will have to change the text "formName" in the javascript to match the name of the form you would like to be submitted when the page loads.

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Yes, the form would need to be located with the body tag. You will have to change the text "formName" in the javascript to match the name of the form you would like to be submitted when the page loads.
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I use php code for that, and thanks that help a lot.