Re: Re: Checking for form submission

Ok, in simple form - If the submit button was clicked, If some one hits enter this would be a problem, easy way to resolve this would be to have a hidden form element flagged and to terst for that instead of the submit button, wouldnt you agree Jason? Craig "Jason Wong" <php-general@gremlins.biz> wrote in message news:200408041752.36730.php-general@gremlins.biz... > On Wednesday 04 August 2004 17:34, Craig Donnelly wrote: > > > If you want to test to see if a form has been submitted, I would suggest > > that you > > use the name from the submit button. > > > > e.g - <input type="submit" value="Send Form Data" > > name="sendform"> > > > > if(isset($_POST['sendform'])){ > > echo "Form has been submitted!"; > > } > > > > So basically this checks if the form button "sendform" is set. > > This is not reliable, some browsers does not set the submit button if it was > not explicitly clicked on. Even some big name free webmail providers fall > into this trap of just checking for the submit button rather than checking > the form as a whole. > > -- > Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz > Open Source Software Systems Integrators > * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * > ------------------------------------------ > Search the list archives before you post > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general > ------------------------------------------ > /* > The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. > -- Merrick Furst > */