Submitting Forms

Anon

I have two forms.
When submit button of first form is clicked I want to load the same form .
When Submit button of second form is clicked, then I want both the forms to be submitted as In next Page I want to retrieve values from both the forms.
I am doing it in ASP.

rrijnders

This is a PHP forum, not an ASP forum; but your answer will be the same either way...

When a submit button of a form is pressed, the browser will only pass the data from that form to the script specified by the TARGET attribute of the <FORM> tag. If you want the second form to submit values from two different forms, your only option is to have the submit button run a javascript that will assemble the data from the first form and redefine them as field values in the second form before POSTing to the TARGET of the second form.

It can be done, and maybe you have a situation that requires this, but I have to think there is another way to skin this cat...

-- Rich

tasistro

// this is the html code that would go out to the browser, note that I only have 1 Form
<form action="formhandler.php4" method="POST">
// here is area for form 1, it contains all form variables for it
<input type="text" name="form_data[form1][field1]">
<input type="text" name="form_data[form1][field2]">
<input type="text" name="form_data[form1][field3]">
<input type="text" name="form_data[form1][field4]">
<input type="submit" name="form_buttons[form1]">

// here is area for form 2, it contains all form variables for it
<input type="text" name="form_data[form2][field1]">
<input type="text" name="form_data[form2][field2]">
<input type="text" name="form_data[form2][field3]">
<input type="text" name="form_data[form2][field4]">
<input type="submit" name="form_buttons[form2]">

</form>

// now the script actually handles the info and determines what to do

// here is the pseudo code to do it
formhandler.php
<?
// there is a variable called $form_data as an array holds all the field values
// there is a variable called $form_buttons as an array holds all the button values

if (isset($form_buttons["form1"]))
{
// user submited form1 process on data and echo same form
echo $form_data["form1"]["field1"]; // echoes what the user typed in field 1
// etc...
}
if (isset($form_buttons["form2"]))
{
// user submited form1 process on data and echo whatever is next page
echo $form_data["form2"]["field1"]; // echoes what the user typed in field 2
// etc...
// code here should generate page or redirect to the wanted page....
}
?>

Saludos
Gerardo