submitting forms with an image

Anon

Hi there,

I am using code to submit data to a php script which uses a switch case statement to peform certain things depending on which submit button is pressed and the value passed by that button. I was using code similar to this:

result is: http://webserver/submit.php?submit=data

This was working fabulously, but I decided to be ambitious and replace the ugly submit buttons is some nicer images. So I replaced the code above with this code below:

BUT, the result is this:

http//webserver/submit.php?submit.x=7&submit.y=6

not this:

http://webserver/submit.php?submit=data

as expected.

I looked this up in a few PHP and HTML books, but all seem to avoid suggesting ways to mimic the results of a button submit with an image submit.

Is there a way that this can be done? Or is there a way I can around this and still use my image buttons?

Thanks

Owen

antileon

It's correct what you're writing and that's the way the browser send the data to the server.

To include some other data, you would have to use hidden fields I guess.

If you need to know if it really was on that image he clicked, and not on the other images you have, just name them different. Like "submit1", "submit2", "foo", "bar".. and check if the variables exists in the script.

Anon

Could you give me an example script please, as I don't really know what you mean.

Thanks

antileon

<?
if (isset($submit1_x)) echo "Button #1 was pressed";

if (isset($submit2_x)) echo "Button #2 was pressed";
?>

<BODY>
<form action="<?=$PHPSELF ?>" method="get">
<input type="image" src="button1.gif" name="submit1">

<input type="image" src="button2.gif" name="submit2">

</form>

Anon

Thank you Victor,

That works perfectly.

You have been an amazing help :-)