form name variable?

[sunfire]

Hello,

I'm really new to php, I have been asked to learn it I have done most of my work in Coldfusion. I have been searching on how to get the name of a form tag in php. In this example it would be "UpdateList". I looped through the $_POST but did not see it.

 

<form name="UpdateList" action="index.php" method="post">

 

What am I missing?

 

Thanks,

tom

[947740]

Why do you need the form name?  If it is not dynamic, you could just manually enter "UpdateList", but that is a given.

[sunfire]

I would like to use the form name to process the right form info. I have multiple forms on one page and they all go to index.php.

 

 

Thanks,

tom

[conker87]

Use a differently named submit button.

 

//form1
<input type="submit" value="submit_button_1" />

//form2
<input type="submit" value="submit_button_2" />

 

Then use:

<?php
if ($_POST['submit_button_1'])
       {
              // etc
       }
if ($_POST['submit_button_2'])
       {
              // etc
       }
?>

[sunfire]

Thanks, I just created a hidden input element called formName. It's really to bad that PHP does not support this.

 

Thanks again,

tom