Re: problem with quickform catching all POSTs

On 5/2/05, Richard Harding <rick@ricksweb.info> wrote: > I have a quickform for a login form that I am using with smarty. I also > have a custom form that appears on a page along with the login > quickform. What I do on my forms is test the POST to see either what the > submit button value is or for a specific field to see which form has > been posted. The quickform form always gets called though and it's > messing with the page load. > > The problem seems to be I have a page redirect if the form validates, > but it is redirecting every time I submit the other form which it seems > it shouldn't do because there is no valid login submitted. > > Can anyone enlighten me to what is going on and how I might correct it? > Below is the code to the login form that is a function in a class > extending quickform. If I comment out the call to this function the > other form works just fine. > > Function creating the form: > function show_login_form($smarty) { [snip] > if( $this->validate() ) { [snip] I'm assuming you're extending HTML_QuickForm here. validate() will return true if *any* form has been submitted on the page. This is a known issue and there is a feature called track_submit which "fixes" this by adding a hidden form value that is unique to the form. Check the constructor for HTML_QuickForm. -- Justin Patrin