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Handling multiple submits in a single form with PHP

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by rexworld 2 views

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by rexworld

One possible alternative way of dealing with multiple-button forms is to attach an onClick() event handler to each button that changes the form through JavaScript. So instead of using a single PHP script, you could actually have different scripts for different actions, with JavaScript taking care of changing the form action using code like this:

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and so on. Has anyone tried this, and what were the results?

by billc

If javascript is disabled, the fail-over method would require you to handle both of the submit buttons in the form's action url anyway.

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