Pass variables, in post form or Get form???

I have this form below, as selection to set a locaiton for user. However, when I click on the <li>, it post the form to the correct path, but does not take the value="name". what am I missing here, why is not taking the varibale "name". I'm I going down the right street.

<form action='index.php' name="submitLocation" >
<input type="hidden" name="option" value="commuinity" />
<input type="hidden" name='controller' value="deal" />
<input type="hidden" name='locationName' value="<?php echo $_POST["name"];?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="task" value="dealSetLocationCookie" />

<div id="city-option ">
<img src="templates/deals/images/city_options.png" border="0" class="menu_class" />
<ul class="city_menu">
	<li><a onclick="document.submitLocation.submit('atlanta');" title="atlanta" name="atlanta">atlanta</a></li>
	<li><a onclick="document.submitLocation.submit('chicago');" title="Chicago" name="Chicago">Chicago</a></li>
	<li><a onclick="document.submitLocation.submit('dallas');" title="Dallas" name="Dallas">Dallas</a></li>

</ul>
</div>

</form>

Javascript executes in the browser. At that point, all PHP is finished, and cannot execute, since it was all done on the server before the document was sent to the browser. You are trying to use PHP, but it's not going to work.

As such, this is a javascript question. Moving.