Re: Submit buttons as images

On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, Ben Wiechman wrote: > How do you determine which submit button was pressed if you are using images > instead of standard buttons for form data submission. > > I am having a problem with a form I'm working on. Basically the user enters > some information, reads an agreement (yeah right... lol) and either clicks > Agree or Disagree. My problem is that when I got rid of the std html buttons > in favor of a pair of images that went along with the site design better, I > can no longer figure out for the life of me which button was pressed. > > I know in perl/cgi scripts you can access the x or y co-ords of the image to > figure out which one was pressed, but trying flavors of this with PHP didn't > work. > > Can anyone shed some light on this? > > Thanks in advance. > > Ben If you read the coordinates as buttonname_x and buttonname_y (note underscore instead of period) it will work. The period is an invalid character in a variable name in PHP - it is as you probably realise the concatenation character. -- David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ AusEinet | http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA