Ajax and the POST Method
Passing information to PHP programs using a GET is useful for most situations in which you want to send information to a server-side program and when that information will easily fit in a URL. Sometimes, however, you want to send more information than can easily be put into a URL. For those cases, it's best to use the POST method to send information to a server-side program.
The POST method is usually used in combination with an HTML form, such as the one shown in Figure 16-11.
Figure 16-11. A typical HTML form
The code for the standard HTML form shown in Figure 16-11 might look like this:
<form method = "POST" action = "http://www.somesite.com/program_name"> ...Get The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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