Show/Hide HTML form submit button in PHP

[j3rmain3]

Hi

I am trying to make the submit button in an HTML form display or disappear depending on a users ip address.I was testing this out by placing the ip address into a variable and then doing an if..else statement to change some text which worked well.Then i tried to use similar coding to show and hide the button but..
1)was unable to find a hide/show function in php (dont think there is one after looking in the forum)
2)naming the button so its recognised as a a variable inside php when the page is first loaded.

[size=6pt][b]html[/b][/size][code]
coding for button -> <input type="submit" value="Button" name="button">
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[size=6pt][b]php[/b][/size][code]
<?
coding to show/hide -> if($ip ==ipAddress){

#this is where i have no idea what to add to show/hide button;

} else {

#this is where i have no idea what to add to show/hide button;

}
?>
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Any help would be much appreciated.

J3rmain3

[steveclondon]

Place this if statment in the bottom of your form and echo the submit button

if ($ip ==ipAddress)
{
ie echo '<input type="submit"  .................
}

[radalin]

instead of hiding, try adding disabled on your submit button. Which will completely disable it.

<input type="submit" value="Send" disabled />

But it wont prevent someone to submit the form I think. With javascript injection something like

javascript:void( document.myForm.submit(); )

should submit your form I think. But I'm not sure. Try it on your browser if it works or not if you put disable on the submit button or even if you hide it.

[j3rmain3]

Thanks a lot. Got it sorted out.

j3rmain3