Multiple submit buttons on dynamic form

[feign3]

I have a loop creating a list of vendors that have orders placed for their products. The user needs to ability to send each vendor their respective orders so the loop displays a row with the vendor's name and a button that says something like "SEND ORDERS".

 

The table rows are being built with a WHILE loop and I am passing form data elements like the vendor id (main key), vendor email and name from hidden form fields.

 

However, when there are multiple rows/vendors listed on the page and I click the first "SEND EMAIL" button for example, it sends the data elements from the LAST vendor record instead. The closest I got to fixing it was to assign the vendor id to the VALUE of the button but all of the hidden elements still pass the value of the last record on the page.

 

Here is my loop code:

 

<table width="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<?php 	
while ($row_GetVendors = mysql_fetch_assoc($GetVendors)){ ?>

  <tr>
	<td width="18%"><?php echo $row_GetVendors['vendor_name']; ?></td>
	<td width="22%">(<?php echo $row_GetVendors['count(oel.vendor_notify_flag)'].' ITEMS TO SEND'; ?>) </td>
	<td width="60%"><input name="button" type="submit" id="button" value="SEND VENDOR EMAIL">
	<input name="vendor_email" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $row_GetVendors['contact_email']; ?>">
	<input name="vendor_name" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $row_GetVendors['vendor_name']; ?>">
	<input name="vendor_id" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $row_GetVendors['vendor_id']; ?>">
	<input type="hidden" name="FormUpdate" value="send_email">
	</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
	<td colspan="3"><img src="/images/blue_spacer.gif" width="100%" height="1">    
  </tr>

<?php } ?>
</table>

 

So in the example above, I get 2 rows (one for each vendor that has orders). If I click the first button, it sends all of the values from the second row instead.

 

Here is the generated HTML:

 

<table width="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">

  <tr>

	<td width="18%">Vendor 1 Name</td>
	<td width="22%">(1 ITEMS TO SEND) </td>
	<td width="60%"><input name="button" type="submit" id="button" value="SEND VENDOR EMAIL">
	<input name="vendor_email" type="hidden" value="craig@email.com">
	<input name="vendor_name" type="hidden" value="Vendor 1 Name">
	<input name="vendor_id" type="hidden" value="2">
	<input type="hidden" name="FormUpdate" value="send_email">
	</td>

  </tr>
  <tr>
	<td colspan="3"><img src="/images/blue_spacer.gif" width="100%" height="1">    
  </tr>


  <tr>
	<td width="18%">Vendor 2 Name</td>
	<td width="22%">(6 ITEMS TO SEND) </td>

	<td width="60%"><input name="button" type="submit" id="button" value="SEND VENDOR EMAIL">
	<input name="vendor_email" type="hidden" value="email@email.com">
	<input name="vendor_name" type="hidden" value="Vendor 2 Name">
	<input name="vendor_id" type="hidden" value="1">
	<input type="hidden" name="FormUpdate" value="send_email">
	</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
	<td colspan="3"><img src="/images/blue_spacer.gif" width="100%" height="1">    
  </tr>

</table>

 

I'm sure this has to do with the way the form works with using multiple submits or something. Does anyone know a good way to do this that still allows me to use submit buttons as opposed to radio buttons and such?

[feign3]

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[allworknoplay]

Sounds like your not properly looping your vendor ID's correctly.

 

So when you click on the FIRST send button, it is being replaced by the last iterated vendor ID.

 

 

Try clearing out your variable at the end before it loops again like so:

 

$row_GetVendors['vendor_id'] = "";