PHP does not get "name/value" variables from submit button

[zavier]

I have a form with multiple submit buttons and need the "value" attribute to determine the action of the following page. But PHP does not offer any variables from the submit button.

Is there a configuration problem (something I need to change in PHP.INI)?

I use PHP 4.1.2 on FreeBSD

Thanks for any helpful hints

-Zavier

[rharter]

if you have

<form method-'post' action='phpscript.php'>
<input type='submit' name='action' value='Push Me'>
<input type='submit' name='action' value='Peg Me'>
</form>

and in the php script you do

$action = $_POST['action'];

if ($action == 'Push Me') {
echo 'Push Me <br/>';
}
if ($action == 'Peg Me') {
echo 'Peg Me <br>';
}

it will work fine

hope this helps

r

[zavier]

Hi Ron,

thanks for your reply. The problem turned out to be a Javascript that was called on form submission. The script disables the submit buttons upon pressing them, to avoid multiple submissions. It also prevents the name/value combination to be posted. ...
-Zavier

[vocoder]

is there a way to get the names of the input types if you don't know the names? I am dynamically generating some input fields and they always have different names..