passing variables from views to controllers - php

Question

I'm going to try to explain this as best I can. I'm returning an array of results from my controller. I wish to send over the primary key of the selected row to another controller that will manage inserting the record into the Database when a user clicks the "add employee" button. My primary key is MOVIE_ID. It's currently returning an array of two MOVIE_ID {12341, 31351} like so. My questions are:
How do I associate each movie ID uniquely with that corresponding rows' button?
Can I pass a variable to a controller through the action="" attribute , do I need JS?
<fieldset id= "results">
<?php if (isset($results ) And count($results)) : ?>
<table id="box-table-a" summary="Employee Sheet">
<thead>
<tr>
<th scope="col">Employee</th>
<th scope="col">Salary</th>
<th scope="col">Bonus</th>
<th scope="col">Supervisor</th>
<th scope="col">Action</th>
</tr>
<?php foreach ($results as $result) : ?>
<tr>
//Primary key <?php echo $result['MOVIE_ID!'];?>
<td><span class="Employee_name"><?php echo $result['Employee']; ?> </span></td>
<td><span class="Salary"><?php echo $result['Salary']; ?> </span> </td>
<td><span class="Bonus"><?php echo $result['Bonus']; ?> </span> </td>
<td><span class="Supervisor_name"><?php echo $result['Supervisor']; ?> </span></td>
<td><input type="submit" value="add employee" > </td>
</tr>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</thead>
<tbody>
</fieldset>

Answer 1

One trick is to pass the id via the submit button, like so:
<input name="submit[12341]" type="submit" value="add employee" />
When clicked it would send submit[12341]=add+employee in the POST data (assuming you have wrapped everything inside a <form> tag). The other buttons will not be submitted, only the one that's clicked.
In PHP you can retrieve the id like so:
$id = key($_POST['submit']);