Convert Submit Button To Link?

I have recently needed to replace the submit buttons on my forms with clickable links instead. I wanted the replacement to be completely compatible with my existing PHP server-side code. This means that where I checked for a button having been pressed on the server side, the same check would continue to work, and the same form elements would have been submitted.Stripping away issues of screen formatting, I changed my button code generator to produce this

Code HTML4Strict:

<a href="javascript:submitMe('buttonName');">buttonLabel</a>

instead of this

Code HTML4Strict:

<input type="submit" name="buttonName" value="buttonLabel">

and in javascript I wrote this function

Code JavaScript:

function submitMe(val)
{
// create a form element that will show up in $_POST with the same

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