Form help...need to get what button sele

Anon

I'm trying to learn PHP. My class right now is using ASP and VBSCRIPT (YUK!!)
so I decided to do PHP instead...
but i'm stuck on this.

Lets say I have a page page1.php
and its has
<FORM ACTION = "page2.php">
<INPUT TYPE "Submit" NAME = "Update" VALUE = "UPDATE">
<INPUT TYPE "Submit" NAME = "Delete" VALUE = "DELETE">
</FORM>

and then page2.php

I would like to get the value from what button the user clicked on. (either "UPDATE" or "DELETE")

I dont know how to do this with PHP though.

with VBSCRIPT and ASP its like this
in page2.asp

if(CStr(Request.From("Delete")) = "Delete") then do some crap.

what is a similar function to Request.From? and CStr in PHP?

Thanks for any help.

Anon

name the inputs the same in your case like this:

then:

<?php
if($button=="UPDATE") {
//do update stuff
} elseif($button=="DELETE") {
//do delete stuff
}
?>

there are better ways to do this, but you'll learn them as you go.

Anon

Thanks, that kinda works exept its annoying when I have a button with a really long value being displayed.. like \"click this button to bla bla....\"

I could save it as a variable probably?
like $buttonvar = \"click this button to bla bla bla...\"

Anon

Instead of giving all your submits the same name and different values, consider giving them different names and using whatever values you like.

then:

<?php
if($update!="") {
//do update stuff
} elseif($delete!="") {
//do delete stuff
}
?>

If you click the "update" button, it sends its value back to the server while the "delete" button doesn't. And vice versa.

You can mess around with the values of the buttons to your heart's content (even specifying them programmatically), and the code where you test which one was clicked won't need to be changed.