link as submit button?

[illushinz]

can i make a submit button a link? I have a database with unique numbers for each record, I am displaying these records in a table as a result of a search, I want to be able to click on the number and have it submit the information from the table(database row) to another php page for editing......?

[winterbeef]

Howdy,
If I understand the question, then my answer is sure! But you're gonna use a little HTML and JavaScript, not PHP, per se.

First, the button is no longer a 'submit' button, tho it looks just like one.

<input type=button name="mybutton"......
rather than
<input type=submit name="mybutton"......

then, use a JS function inside the button, tied to the 'onClick' event:

...onClick="location='myscript.php?id=1001';">

So, in total:

<input type=button name="mybutton" value="whatever" onClick="location='myscript.php?id=1001';">

HTH!

[MrAlaska]

You would dynamically build a seperat URL for each record when you build the table:

<a href='secondpage.php?record=<?php echo $record_id ?>'>

Then the second page would collect it from the GET

if (isset($GET['record'])){
$record=$GET['record'];
}elseif (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['record'])){
$record=$HTTP_GET_VARS['record'];
} else $record="";