Re: 2 submit buttons.

On Feb 14, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 05:15:11PM -0500, Floyd Resler wrote: > >> >> On Feb 14, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Paul M Foster wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:35:02PM -0400, Paul Halliday wrote: >>> >>>> I have 2 buttons on a page: >>>> >>>> if (isset($_POST['botton1'])) {dothing1();} if >>>> (isset($_POST['button2'])) {dothing2();} >>>> >>>> They both work as intended when I click on them. If however I click >>>> within a text box and hit enter, they both fire. >>>> >>>> Is there a way to stop this? >>> >>> Check your code. My experience has been that forms with multiple >>> submits will fire the *first* submit in the form when you hit Enter >>> in a text field or whatever. I just tested this and found it to be >>> true. >>> >>> Now, I'm doing this in Firefox on Linux. I suppose there could be >>> differences among browsers, but I suspect that the specs for HTML >>> mandate the behavior I describe. >>> >>> Paul >>> >> >> If you don't mind using a little JavaScript you can test for which >> button should fire when enter is pressed. How I would do it is to >> first add a hidden field and call it "buttonClicked". Now, in the >> text field where you would like a button to fire if enter is pressed, >> at this to the tag: onkeyup="checkKey(this,event)". For the >> JavaScript portion of it, do this: > > Yeah, but you don't even have to go that far. Just put a print_r($_POST) > at the beginning of the file, and you'll see which button gets pressed. > It will show up in the POST array. > > Paul > > -- Yeah, except that the original question was about controlling which button fires when the enter key is pressed. :) Thanks! Floyd