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| Alexander Ross 2004-08-26, 12:19 pm |
| I have a form in a PHP page.
<form action="dosomething.php" method="post">
I'd like to have more than one submit button, and depending on which one is
clicked, the action of the form changes:
<form action="dosomething.php#button1" method="post">
or
<form action="dosomething.php#button2" method="post">
ideas? questions? comments? concerns? jokes?
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| Murray *TMM* 2004-08-26, 12:19 pm |
| I think Marja has an extension on her site for this with clientside js -
http://www.flevooware.nl/dreamweaver
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"Alan" <dont_mail_me_period@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> can't send the action to an anchor- PHP doesn't work like that.
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> instead of multiple submit buttons- use one submit button.
> have a group of radio buttons, where the user picks what action to take.
> then at top of the processing php, evaluate what they picked, and execute
> the proper block of code for their choice.
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| Alexander Ross 2004-08-26, 12:19 pm |
| nope .. she has a "submit form from link" extension .. thx though
"Murray *TMM*" <forums@HAHAgreat-web-sights.com> wrote in message
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> I think Marja has an extension on her site for this with clientside js -
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> http://www.flevooware.nl/dreamweaver
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> "Alan" <dont_mail_me_period@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I'd like to have more than one submit button, and depending on which one is
> clicked, the action of the form changes:
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> <form action="dosomething.php#button1" method="post">
> or
> <form action="dosomething.php#button2" method="post">
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> ideas? questions? comments? concerns? jokes?
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can't send the action to an anchor- PHP doesn't work like that.
instead of multiple submit buttons- use one submit button.
have a group of radio buttons, where the user picks what action to take.
then at top of the processing php, evaluate what they picked, and execute
the proper block of code for their choice.
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| No- the PHP in the file will execute- starting from the top.
You can't choose code blocks of PHP to run by using a named anchor in the
form's action.
What you could do is pass a variable in the action-
action="processthis.php?do=something"
action="processthis.php?do=somethingelse"
then, same as described before- evaluate what's been passed, and process
accordingly.
> can PHP send a page to an anchor before the headers are sent? I know I can
> do this with javascript, but life would be so much better if I could do this
> php
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| Alexander Ross 2004-08-26, 12:19 pm |
| ....I realize what I'm trying to do is a wee bit unorthodox, but I assure you
there is a madness to my methods ....
can PHP send a page to an anchor before the headers are sent? I know I can
do this with javascript, but life would be so much better if I could do this
php
Alex
"Alan" <dont_mail_me_period@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> can't send the action to an anchor- PHP doesn't work like that.
>
> instead of multiple submit buttons- use one submit button.
> have a group of radio buttons, where the user picks what action to take.
> then at top of the processing php, evaluate what they picked, and execute
> the proper block of code for their choice.
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| Michael Fesser 2004-08-26, 12:19 pm |
| .oO(Murray *TMM*)
>I think Marja has an extension on her site for this with clientside js -
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>http://www.flevooware.nl/dreamweaver
Use JS only for additional convenience features, _never_ for basic
functionality.
Micha
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| Michael Fesser 2004-08-26, 12:19 pm |
| .oO(Alexander Ross)
>...I realize what I'm trying to do is a wee bit unorthodox,
Not really. You can do whatever you want in your form processing script.
It's not that difficult to perform different actions dependent on which
radio button was selected. There's absolutely no need for unreliable
client-side "action changing".
Micha
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| Murray *TMM* 2004-08-26, 12:19 pm |
| But that will work for you, no?
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"Alexander Ross" <aross@dosomething.org> wrote in message
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> nope .. she has a "submit form from link" extension .. thx though
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> "Murray *TMM*" <forums@HAHAgreat-web-sights.com> wrote in message
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| Alexander Ross 2004-08-26, 12:20 pm |
| let me explain in greater detail ....
I have a form for adding lessons from a school curriculum into a mysql db.
It asks for unit, title, goal, etc... It also asks for each individual step
(think procedure from your high school sience class: step 1, do something ;
step 2, do another thing; ster 3 ...)
Problem is, there is an indeterminant number of steps per lesson. To remedy
this, I added a "+" button near where the user adds step 1. If they want
another step, they simply press "+". The form is submitted back to the same
page (I make sure the user doesn't loose any of the previously entered
data). The first thing this page does is check if a btn was pushed and if
so, which:
if $_POST['addStep'] then ...
if $_POST['submitEntireLesson'] then ...
Still with me? Next to the "+" I put a named anchor. I would like, after
the user pushes "+" for him/her to be brought back to that section of the
form (i.e. not need to scroll down everytime). I use this technique with 3
seperate sections on the form, and it works great!! Its just annoying to
have to scroll down each time if you're adding 10 steps.
Any suggestions, thoughts, ideas, alternative solutions are welcome
Alex
"Michael Fesser" <netizen@gmx.net> wrote in message
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> .oO(Alexander Ross)
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> Not really. You can do whatever you want in your form processing script.
> It's not that difficult to perform different actions dependent on which
> radio button was selected. There's absolutely no need for unreliable
> client-side "action changing".
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> Micha
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