Re: changing form based on variable
| From: | Phpster | Date: | Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:13:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: changing form based on variable | ||
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On Jul 20, 2010, at 13:28, David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I've got a form, it's sticky, and it can either display on an insert
> or update. Depending on whether i'm wanting to do an insert or update
> the area the form gets it's input changes.
> So, i've got a name field, if it's set to insert, not sure how to
> differentiate between the two actions, name gets it's input from the
> value of $_POST['name'] since it's sticky. If it's set to update that
> name value is filled in by the name field output in a database. Also,
> if insert the button for sending the form is called "add" if update
> it's called "update" I'd like to know how to pull this off, because in
> both cases the form entry fields are the same, i don't want to have to
> write two forms when one should work.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
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Simple, I assume you have an id for the record on update, so test for that and just adjust the value
of the button.
$btnValue = 'Submit';
If(isset($id)){
$btnValue ='Update';
}
Bastien
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