Re: two submit buttons possible?

on 1/5/01 9:37 AM, Tom Beidler at tbeidler@mindspring.com wrote: > I'm wondering if there is a way in PHP to have two submit buttons on a form. > One directs to one page, the other to another page. > > I have a checkout process that has two options, one for credit card users > that needs to be secure, the other uses a dealer id which doesn't need to be > secure. > > The ISP we are working with can't get SSL and PHP on the same daemon. Most > orders do not be secure so I can use PHP to fill in most of the form for > them using PHP and MySQL. If they need to be secure I can't use PHP and > there by cannot fill out the form ( unless there is some way to pass the > variables from a PHP page to a vanilla html page?). > > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. With javascript, you could have the buttons submit one of two hidden forms, each of which goes to a different php script (action=...)...but there's probably a better way. Just put two submit buttons on your form with different values (labels) and the same name. On the PHP side, you can check which button was clicked because it's value will be the value of the variable associated with the submit button...does that make sense? Submit buttons are kind of like one-shot radio buttons...the one you click sends it's value back with the form... Hope this helps, Geoff