Re: submitbutton/imagebutton

on 6/22/01 6:10 AM, Jan de Koster at jandk@demorgen.be wrote: > I'm kind of new to php so there may be an obvious answer but I can't > find it for the moment. Look at the PHP FAQ, it's a great place to start: <http://php.net/FAQ.php> > In pure HTML there is of course no problem, the image is still used as a > submit button but... the submit type is being passed on to a php script > ( ...if ($submit) {...) that makes a qeary to a mysql database. When I > change the type=submit to type=image the script doesn't pick up the > submit value anymore, so nothing happens. <quote> 7.13. I'm trying to use an <input type="image"> tag, but the $foo.x and $foo.y variables aren't available. Where are they? When submitting a form, it is possible to use an image instead of the standard submit button with a tag like: <input type="image" SRC="image.gif" NAME="foo"> When the user clicks somewhere on the image, the accompanying form will be transmitted to the server with two additional variables: foo.x and foo.y. Because $foo.x and $foo.y are invalid variable names in PHP, they are automagically converted to $foo_x and $foo_y. That is, the periods are replaced with underscores. </quote> So basically, instead of checking for $submit, do something like: ... if (isset($submit_x)) { ... Sincerely, Paul Burney ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Paul Burney Webmaster && Open Source Developer UCLA -> GSE&IS -> ETU (310) 825-8365 <webmaster@gseis.ucla.edu> <http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++