Hidden Form Variables

[email protected] ("MaulingMonkey") Tue, 6 May 2003 09:40:08 -0700
Newsgroups	php.lang
Organization	Weird Studios
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
This isn't exactly a PHP question, but I don't know where to ask it, and
it's closely related...

I have a form which saves some PHP variables as hidden properties of a field
for maintaining a user login. However, it's contents arn't posted to sites
linked via <a href=...></a> tags. If someone could tell me how to do this
without using cookies that'd be great (I'm trying to provide an alternative
for those people who's sysadmin disabled cookies - usually in a public place
such as a library).

aka my main page looks something like:

<html><head><title> Page Title </title></head>
<body>
<form method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="username" value="MrMonkey">
<input type="hidden" name="password" value="****">
</form>

... some webpage html ...

<a href="otherpage.php">Goto the other page</a><br>
<a href="http:\\www.microsoft.com\">Microsoft</a>
</body></html>

I'd want the hidden data posted to the first link but not the second
(although it won't really matter since I'll be changing from sending the
password to sending a unique randomized session id). I guess I could have a
script that forwarded to M$ site in this example, <a
href="forward.php?url='http:\\www.microsoft.com'>, but I also will be having
users post HTML to my site, and I can't depend on them to remember that
every time...

feedback appreciated, thanks!
   -Mike

(aka MaulingMonkey at http:\\www.leetoldman.com (down for modifications) and
http:\\www.weirdstudios.com\ (being redone as we speak) )