jasonc Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 not sure how i do this but i have a list of userid and username that i wish to have shown in a form when the admin can edit their details. they click their name to be taken to a new page that shows the edit page. the edit page it ready it is the first part that allows admin to select the user that i have a problem with. the following shows the userid of the user and not the username. what method can i use to have with edit user or their names show in the buttons this is what i am using but it shows the userid can this be done? <input type="submit" name="userid" value="my name here"> EDIT: but i will need to obviously know what button was clicked and get the userid of the user Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Meet the <button>: <button type="submit" name="userid" value="<?php print $userid ?>"><?php print $username ?></button> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XeNoMoRpH1030 Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Be careful with <button> though. It's known that IE does not use it in the same manner as other browsers. Why are you trying to use a button anyway? Just curious as it doesn't seem like a case where you'd want to use one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linus72982 Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 You don't have to use buttons. You can have multiple submits in a form and differentiate which was clicked. Try something like: <?php for ($i=1, $i<=$numberOfUsers, $i++){ echo '<input type="submit" name="submitter" value="'.$userid.'->'.$username.'" />} ?> and then have something like this in the processing script: $temp = stripos($_POST['submitter'], '->'); $userID = substr($_POST['submitter'], 0, $temp); $temp = $temp + 2; $userName = substr($_POST['submitter'], $temp); At least that's how I'd do it, now you have the userID and the userName in the processing script of the button they pressed. I didn't test the code, there might be little errors, but it should work overall (*should*). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linus72982 Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 I see one error I wrote, the first piece of code should actually be: echo '<input type="submit" name="submitter" value="'.$userid.'->'.$username.'" />';} ?> Notice I added '; to the very end of the line. Small error, but there nonetheless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Other options available: <input type="submit" name="99" value="MyUsername" onclick="this.value = this.name; this.name = 'userid';"> ----- <input type="hidden" name="userid" value="99"> <input type="submit" value="MyUsername"> Both are handled like: $userid = $_POST['userid']; The latter is better if you want to support graceful degradation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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