2 submit button?

[hwij3]

/me newbie here. need help 😃
I need to have 2 buttons in a form which acts differently.
It's not just submit and reset buttons. But really 2 different task.
I tried to use 2 actionflags but it doesnt work becuase it doesnt recognize which button was pressed.
Please help. thanks...

[jacobee]

Give each submit tag a different name attribute. Then in you PHP script use isset() to check which button was pressed and act accordingly.

test.html

<form method='post' action='test.php'>
<input type='submit' name='button1' value='Button 1'>
<input type='submit ' name='button2' value='Button 2'>
</form>

test.php

<?php

if (isset($_POST['button1']))
{
	//execute code for button1
}
elseif (isset($_POST['button2']))
{
	//execute code for button2
}
?>

[hwij3]

thanks for the answer.
but I have another problem now. The book from which I learnt PHP always use <form action="<?php print $PHP_SELF;?>">
Is there any difference with the POST mehod as the form action?
And what would I better do now?
thanks.. 😃