Which button has been pushed in a form? 1

[warby1212]

Hi, I have a form using POST which has 3 buttons in it. In the php page that it calls I can't find which button has been pushed (warning newbie).
I'm using
if ($_POST['button_name'])
and that works works if "button_name" is the button I pushed but referring to the other buttons gets me an error.

Basically how can I discover which of several submit buttons on a form has been pushed? (is submit the wrong type?)
Thanks for any help


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[Stretchwickster]

Can you show us some code (i.e. your html form and your PHP so far)?

Clive

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[jpadie]

say you have three buttons: blue yellow and green.

have your html like this

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="blue" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="yellow" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="green" />

in your receiving script

<?
if (isset($_POST['submit'])){
  switch ($_POST['submit']){
    case "blue":
      //do something
      break;
    case "yellow":
     //do somethign
     break;
     case "green":
     //do something
     break;
  }
}
?>

 

[warby1212]

Hi Stretchwickster and jpadie,

It works ! I took the sample code and she goes. Very happy
I had the "name" of the input wrong, plus I found out php is case sensitive. I program in Progress which is not.

Thanks a lot
Cheers Stephen

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