two submit buttons on one form?

[Anon]

I would like two submit buttons on a form which do different things.
If the visitor clicks one submit button it does one thing and if they click the other submit button it does another.
I understand they can't go to two different files but by going to one file how does the code know which button they pressed. I thought about a if else statement but
if (what?)

Its going to be used on a forum, Button one will be post a message and button two will be preview message. I know the code for what I want it to do but just need help with how it knows which button was pressed.

Thanks in advance,

Danny Hill

[polson]

submit buttons aren't that special, they just send a name and value like anything else :

<input type="submit" name="fruit" value="apple">
<input type="submit" name="fruit" value="banana">

Clicking the first will produce $fruit = 'apple' and the second will create $fruit = 'banana' and check accordingly :

if ($fruit == 'apple') {

echo 'you clicked on apple button';

}

[Anon]

Just to add to this, whenever a submit button is clicked on, it generates co-ordinates for the click.

So, if apple_x != "" || apple_y != "" - apple was clicked on.

-m.

[Anon]

Thanks for that, working fine

Thanks again,

Danny

[Anon]

I need this function with two images as buttons:
echo "<form method='post' action='note_modify.php'>
.....
echo "<input type='image' name='submit' value='print' src='print.gif'>\n";
echo " <input type='image' name='submit' value='back' src='save.gif'>\n";

i tryed a
if($submit == 'print') { .....} else...
in the php-file but the $submit variable is empty.