[SOLVED] submit form button

[Pavlos1316]

Hi all

 

I have this buton configuration:

 

<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" on click="this.form.submit"/>

 

is working fine...!!

 

When i try to change my submit button to an image like that:

 

input type="image" src="../../play button.bmp" height="25" width=" 130" alt="Submit Form"

 

doesn't work.

 

Can you help?

 

Thank you.

[dannyb785]

add

 

onclick="this.form.submit()"

 

to the input tag

[Pavlos1316]

Doesn't work

 

[haku]

Please elaborate on 'it doesn't work'.

 

I failed mind-reading 101 unfortunately.

[Pavlos1316]

The solution given by dannyb785 doesn't work!!!

[Wolphie]

The solution given by dannyb785 doesn't work!!!

 

What *exactly* doesn't work? Is there anything indicating where the problem is? What's wrong? Please be more clearer.

If you're using Firefox, download the Firebug add-on, it will help you debug and determine the problem.

 

Why are you adding a submit method to a submit button/image anyway? And I very much doubt that your first one worked, seeing as the form would submit regardless.

[Pavlos1316]

You can doupt as much as you like but... while I am testing with button everything is ok.

 

When I try the image I must missing something so I don't get POST the checked checkboxes.

 

That is the problem. I don't get the checkboxes posted when using image button

 

[Wolphie]

Everything would be fine, because when you click the submit button, the data will be submitted regardless of whether you use an event handler or not. It doesn't matter, if you remove the onclick event handler, your form will still be submitted.

 

This works *perfectly* fine for me:

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="POST">
  <input type="text" name="name" />
  <input type="image" src="http://localhost/MAMP/images/welogo.gif" name="submit" />
</form>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) { 
  print $_POST['name'];
}
?>

[Pavlos1316]

you have exactly what i have.

 

when i use simple button everything is ok.

 

when i replace it with image button my checkboxes don't get posted!!!!!!!

[Wolphie]

Post your entire code then, rather than complaining about it.

[Pavlos1316]

this is what i have now:

 

$away8='';

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

if (isset($_POST['a'])) {
$a = $_POST['a'];

if ($a == 'a') {
$a = '1';
}
}
}

 

image button:

<input type="image" src="../../play button.bmp" height="25" width="130" name="submit" /></th>

 

still doesn't work.

 

what i understant is... when i have the simple button... ok.

 

when i am replacing with image button, somehow it is postin the first $a='' (which is null as you see) and not the other that follows if (isset($_POST['submit']))

 

Am I missing something?

 

And I asure you that with simple button works perfectly!!!

[Wolphie]

Post your form code too

[Pavlos1316]

here is a small part of it:

 

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="proccess.php" target="_self">
<input type="checkbox" name="a" id="a" value="a" />
        -</span>
        <input type="checkbox" name="b" id="b" value="b" />
        <span class="style3">- </span>
        <input type="checkbox" name="c" id="c" value="c" />

[AndyB]

I wish I could find one of the many times I've answered questions about image submit ...

 

When an image is clicked, the x and y coordinates of where it was clicked relative to its upper-left corner are passed along. That's how image maps work (and how compliant browsers treat image submits).

 

With an image submit button, $_POST['submit'] has no value. The coordinate values do exist: you can check for either $_POST['submit_x'] or $_POST['submit_y']. That'll work - assuning that you have named your image submit as you did in your first example posted code for a 'normal' submit.

[Pavlos1316]

Thankssssssssssssss very very much....

 

If you have time can you explain in more simple words how the image works with x & y coordinates?

 

Just to understand what happened.

 

imagined it like it scans in x & y and posting what ever it finds...

 

Thanks again

[Pavlos1316]

Oh... I also thank everybody who tried to help...

 

if no one was trying... nothing would ever happen!!!!