two form actions & one submit button

[Anon]

Hey there,

can somebody tell me what the best way is two have two different forms with different kinds of actions (in this case email and data transfer to another file) be handled by one submit button. i can't get it to work

at the moment it is like this:

<FORM action="http://cgi.wish.net/cgi-bin/mailform.cgi" method="POST">

<INPUT type="hidden" name="mailformFromName" value="Contracts">
<INPUT type="hidden" name="mailformSubject" value="Online order">
<INPUT type="hidden" name="mailformToEmail" value="[e-mail]">
</form>
<form method="post" action="Ben_contract.php3">

rest of the body

and then
<input type="submit" name="submit2></form>

[rrijnders]

You want one submit to submit both forms to two different scripts? And which response will the browser display? Remember, the browser always assumes there will be a reply for it's requests...

[Anon]

it could work if you have 2 frames ... so that one form has a target and loads the action in a onther frame than the onther form but i've never tested such a thing.

try it that way:

<form name=form1 target=2ndframe>
...
</form>
<form name=form2>
...
</form>

<input type=button onclick="document.form1.submit();document.form2.submit();">

maybe it works ....

[rrijnders]

You could also do it with two browser windows if you use javascript, but I don't think that is what Roel is after...

-- Rich

[Anon]

Maybe its easier if i tell you what i want to do. People fill in their name phone number etc. and then have a choice of either ordering information package or they can print the contracts right away if they wish to. the problem is that if the choose the latter the data not only needs to be transported to the contract file (to be filled in) but the dat also needs to be send to us through email.

If you know of any other way of doing that i'm all ears

[rrijnders]

Yeah, just create two functions in your code. The first one to upload the info to request information package and the second to email you because they want to print the contracts. On your form, create two submit buttons; one for "request info" and another for "print contracts". Depending on which button they clicked, run one function or both.

-- Rich