Re: Re[2]: [PHP] Re: Form Submission

* Thus wrote Torsten Roehr: > > > > > > How do you check which button was pressed (read: which action should be > > > performed) when not relying on this? > > > > > > > The button is generally *not* sent by the browser if you hit enter > > instead of submit. This *will* happen, so you have to deal with it. > > > > If you want to knwo what button was pressed, you have to have > > different button names or values and check them. A button is just > > another form element that is submitted. > > I believe you are wrong here. I just checked it in IE5 and Opera 7.23. > Submitting a form by hitting enter IS THE SAME as pressing a submit button no, it is simply unpredictable to what will happen, my test case... Site: google.com Browsers: IE6, Opera, Firefox, netscape4 Test: Enter 'asdf' and hit enter. Results: Opera and firefox sent in the url &btnG=Search, signifying that the first button has been submited. IE6 and netscape4, don't have that parameter in the url. In fact, google *had* code that checked for the btnG value and if it exsited it would display a tip about being able to simply hit enter. They no longer do that since it is unreliable. > > So from my point of view a form cannot be submitted without at least one of > the submit button values ending in POST. And if it did, which one does it send? If there are multiple buttons on a page, does it send the one closest to the focused item? or does it send the very first one it finds no matter how the page is visually layed out? > > What do you think? Never rely on button values to decide on a course of action. Curt -- First, let me assure you that this is not one of those shady pyramid schemes you've been hearing about. No, sir. Our model is the trapezoid!