Multiple Form Actions

[Anon]

I have a form that is generated with php. The input types are all radio buttons. The form gets loaded with data defining classes currently entered into my database. On this particular form, I want the user to choose a class by clicking a radio button, and then choose to either edit the class data or delete the class.

I'm using javascript to verify that a class was chosen, and I know that I can send the user to the page that processes the data by sending the page info to the javascript, appending the value selected to that page to process it.

But if the user isn't using javascript, I don't know how to setup a form that performs one action (edit) with one button, and a different action (delete) with another button.

Any suggestions or links to resources will be greatly appreciated

[Anon]

Try setting your buttons like...

<input type="submit" name="action" value="Edit">
<input type="button" name="action" value="Delete">

... then in your PHP script that handles this form (i.e. your action="..." parameter)....

switch ($action) {
case "Edit":
// your code that edits class
break;
case "Delete":
// your code that deletes class
break;

}

Hope it helps,

Boris Belobrad
Belcom Bailey LLC
www.belcombailey.com

[Anon]

Make it

<input type="submit" name="action" value="Delete">

[Anon]

Well is it type=button or type=submit? Wazzzzuuuppp

[Anon]

it's type="submit" ... sorry, too tired today...

Boris Belobrad
Belcom Bailey LLC
www.belcombailey.com

[Anon]

I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough in my original post. The code I'm using looks something like this:

<?php while($db->next_record()): $count++; ?>
<tr>
<td><input type="radio" name="coursekey" value="<?php printl(htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($db->f("key")))); ?>"></td>
<td><?php print(htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($db->f("name")))); ?>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
<td><?php print(htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($db->f("id")))); ?>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
<td><?php printl(htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($db->f("section")))); ?>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<?php endwhile; ?>

So, the radio button has a value after one is chosen. I then have two buttons, edit and delete. I send $count to a javascript to ensure a choice was made. I am also able to send the script the $sess->purl("url").$sess->padd_query(array("action" => "edit or delete")) where I check for a choice and append the value of the radio button selected to the url. Then I just set the document.location to that page. But this is all done in javascript!

Is it possible for me to emulate this in php, just in case I get a client that doesn't have javascript? I just can't figure out how to set the action to match a given button.

Sorry again for not being clear enough.