Re: Re: form submission logic

From: Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 13:02:33 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: form submission logic
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>"Jay Blanchard" <jay.blanchard@niicommunications.com> wrote in message news:C8F323573C030A448F3E5A2B6FE2070B0352250A@nemesis... >[snip] >This is more of a HTML than a PHP question, but anyway: >It doesn't matter where you put the buttons as long as they are INSIDE >the >form-tag and have different names. >[/snip] > >Actually you can name them all the same thing and then have PHP process >the form via a switch/case statment. > ><input type="submit" name="action" value"Publish"> ><input type="submit" name="action" value"Un-Publish"> > ><?php > >switch($_POST['action']){ > case "Publish": > ... do stuff ... > break; > > case "Un-Publish": > ... do stuff ... > break; > >} Correct, but it might quickly break your code if you decide to give the button a different label (value attribute). This could be solved, though, by working with constants that are defined in a seperate language resource file. Regards, Torsten

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