Posting to URL

[trp]

Hey,

I am using some forms that post things to the URL (such as &update) for me to use within an 'if isset' statement.

The thing is I have one page with more than one form, each with different outputs, the first one adds to the url and any action after that also involves running the first request again.

Does anyone know a resolution for this?

 

Thanks,

 

TRP

[TeddyKiller]

Different submit button names?

[teamatomic]

Give the various submit buttons meaningful names then check for the name just as you would with a submit button named 'submit'.

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic

[trp]

I'll show you the code 

 

				echo	"<tr>";
			echo		"<td align=center colspan=2>
							<form method=\"post\" action=\"{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?{$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']}&$actionone\">
							<input type=\"submit\" value = \"$actionone\">
							</form>
						</td>
						<td></td>";
			echo	"</tr>";
			echo	"<tr>";
			echo		"<td align=center colspan=2>
							<form method=\"post\" action=\"{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?{$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']}&$actiontwo\">
							<input type=\"submit\" value = \"$actiontwo\">
							</form>
						</td>
						<td></td>";
			echo	"</tr>";
			echo	"<tr>";
			echo		"<td align=center colspan=2>
							<form method=\"post\" action=\"{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?{$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']}&$actionthree\">
							<input type=\"submit\" value = \"$actionthree\">
							</form>
						</td>
						<td></td>";
			echo	"</tr>";

 

Then picked up by annother query using if isset, but as the url can easily look like &whatever&something it will do both..

[deanlearner]

name your submit buttons

<input type="submit" name="submit_form" value="submit1"/>
<input type="submit" name="submit_form" value="submit2"/>
<input type="submit" name="submit_form" value="submit3"/>

 

and in the code that checks if a form submitted

if(isset($_POST['submit_form'])){
  switch($_POST['submit_form']){
  case "submit1":
    // Do something when submit button 1 is pressed
    break;
  case "submit2":
    // Do something when submit button 2 is pressed
    break;
  case "submit3":
    // Do something when submit button 3 is pressed
    break;
  }
}

[TeddyKiller]

Or you could do it the way that most likely you'll have.

<input type="submit" name="submit_form1" value="submit"/>
<input type="submit" name="submit_form2" value="submit"/>
<input type="submit" name="submit_form3" value="submit"/>

Notice how I changed the names of the button, instead of value as deanlearner.

 

Then to validate the forms..

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit_form1'])) {
    //Content for form 1 will go here...
}
if(isset($_POST['submit_form2'])) {
    //Content for form 2 will go here...
}
if(isset($_POST['submit_form3'])) {
    //Content for form 3 will go here...
}

And so on. I don't like using switches when using multiple forms. I like it all grouped together.

[trp]

Cheers guys, thats really helpful, works a treat too