two buttons, two problems

[Anon]

On a single html page resident php code filters and
builds a table with a single 'submit' kind of button.
I'd like to do something with this data, insert it
into another table, but a second button can have
two types : 'submit' and 'button'.
Problem : how to make this second button trigger
php code in a seperate file 'elsewhere.php'
and use the table data on the original 'overhere.php'
page. I've read for three days about php functions
and how to write them, but how to call them
from a button, 'submit' or 'button' type, is still
a puzzle.

[Anon]

I think you'd need to make a new HTML form and point it to your php script:

<FORM METHOD="post" ACTION="elsewhere.php">

Then just be sure to put your submit button in before the closing </FORM> tag. Any form <INPUT> tags will be passed as variables (their names and values). If you want to take across some data you might have to use:

<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="myvar" VALUE="<? echo $myvar; ?>">

I hope that makes a bit of sense 😉