IF Statement for submit buttons

[Anon]

Hi guys,

Any chance of some help with this, I've been looking at it so long that my heads gone.

I have a form, but two submit buttons. I basically want the form to submit depending on the submit button the user chooses. button a to form a, button b to form b.

Here's the code:

if ($action == "Edit")
{
echo"<form action=\"EditContact.php\" method=\"post\">";
}
elseif ($action == "Delete")
{
echo"<form action=\"DeleteContact.php\" method=\"post\">";
}

To make matters a bit worse, I'm using images as submit buttons ('cause it fits with the rest of the site) and I'm sure I've messed up the code here:

echo "<input type=\"image\" border=\"0\" name=\"EditContact &action=Edit\" src=\"Buttons/EditRecord.gif\">";

Thanx in advance...

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Q: what's the problem?

[Anon]

I'm not familiar with this technique of putting &var=val in the name of an input. PHP parses the name that way? I thought it would just ignore everything after a valid variable construct.

Roger

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[Anon]

Are you trying to code this in the page with the form? That won't get you anywhere. What you have to do is set up two forms on the same page with separate submit buttons. Then, in the subsequent page, you can do your if statement, but you'll want to find out if the $submit value is "edit" or "delete". Then proceed accordingly.