Re: Multiple Submit

Dan Shirah wrote:

Okay, I partially figured it out! YAY! I only needed to have one form object. *<form name="inputForm" action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">* Instead of putting an action in the form, leave it blank....and then specify the forms action based on which button is clicked. *<input type="submit" name="retrieve" value="Retrieve" onclick=" this.form.action='CSPayment3.php';" />* And this will $_POST all your entered values as it should. Now all I have to figure out is how to have: *<a href="javascript:checkForm()" title="Save">Save</a>* Run through all my form checks and then $_POST to my save.php page. On 2/26/07, Jim Lucas <lists@cmsws.com> wrote:

Dan Shirah wrote:

Hello all, I have a page that has multiple submits on it. One submit is within my javascriptfor form checking, the other submit is a button used to

populate

all customer information if an order ID is entered. Problem: I cannot get the two to coincide at the same time. They both

use

the submit function to send the data to the same page instead of their unique individual pages. Code: Below are the code snipets. <?php echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?".">"; ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" " http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <HEAD> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function closeThis() { if (window.confirm("Are you sure you want to cancel the payment

request?"))

this.window.close(); } *function checkForm() {* // ** START ** if (inputForm.cc_phone_number.value == "") { alert( "Please enter a phone number." ); inputForm.cc_phone_number.focus(); return; } if (inputForm.receipt.value == "") { alert( "Please select whether or not a receipt was requested." ); inputForm.phone_number.focus(); return; } if (inputForm.cc_first_name.value == "") { alert( "Please enter a first name." ); inputForm.cc_first_name.focus(); return; } if (inputForm.cc_last_name.value == "") { alert( "Please enter a last name." ); inputForm.cc_last_name.focus(); return; } if (!(document.inputForm.cc_comments.value =="")) { if (document.inputForm.cc_comments.value.length > 250) { alert("The Comments must be less than 250 characters.\nIt is

currently "

+ document.inputForm.window_name.value.length + " characters."); document.inputForm.window_name.focus(); return; } } * document.inputForm.submit();* } //--> </script> <LINK rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../CSS/background.css"> </head> <body> *<form name="inputForm" action="save.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">* <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="680"> <tr> <td height="13" align="center" class="tblhead"><strong>Credit Card Information</strong></td> </tr> *// LOTS OF FORM DATA REMOVED FOR EMAIL LENGTH* <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="680"> <tr> *This is the other submit that I need to go a page other than the one specified in the <form>* *<td width="62"><a href="DeferredPayment3.php"><input type="submit" name="retrieve" value="Retrieve"></a></td>*

     <td width="8"></td>

</tr> </table> <br /> <br /> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="680"> <tr> *Call to the javascript checkForm function* *<td width="64" align="left"><a href="javascript:checkForm()" title="Save">Save</a></td> * <td width="616" align="left"><a href="javascript:closeThis()" title="Close">Close</a></td> </tr> </table> </form> </body> </html>

I see a few things now that are wrong with this. I thought they were comments but now that you have explained that it was a nested for, it make a little more sense. You cannot nest forms. if you want to have the for submitted to a different location, then you have to use one form, with function that modify the action value and change it to the correct url and then submit the form. Try this: <form action="original.php" method="get" onsubmit="return false;" > <input type="submit"

       onclick="       alert("Original:"+this.form.action);
                       this.form.action = 'new.php';
                       alert("New:"+this.form.action); " />

</form> -- Enjoy, Jim Lucas Different eyes see different things. Different hearts beat on different strings. But there are times for you and me when all such things agree. - Rush

Change this line: <a href="javascript:checkForm()" title="Save">Save</a>* to this <input type="button" value="Save" /> and then in the <form ...> tag add: onsubmit="checkForm();" I would also run through your checkForm() function and make sure that it is returning true or false always. -- Enjoy, Jim Lucas Different eyes see different things. Different hearts beat on different strings. But there are times for you and me when all such things agree. - Rush