Multiple "submit" buttons

[Stinger51]

I'm trying to place two submit buttons on a page and having the form choose which page to display next, e.g. :

<form method="post" action= "<? echo $Next ?>">

The question is, what is the PHP mechanism for setting $Next to hold the value of the next page to be displayed -- depending upon which button is pressed?

I think Javascript can handle this with its onClick event, but I want to do this in PHP.

Thanks in advance.

[daveyboy]

You can't do that. Once the page is output to the browser, you have no more control over it - variables cannot be changed.

You have 2 possibilities:

1. Use a different value for each submit button and one next page which behaves according to which button was pressed.

2. Use a JavaScript onClick function on the buttons to change the form action and then submit it. How you do that, I don't know, though it should be possible.
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[Mce]

To do what you are asking you have to use javascript.
You give the froms a name then reference them with a form.formname.submit() in the onClick of the <input> that has your "submit" buttons
This is a general explaination and prob requires a tiny bit of research to make it actually work (I forget how to tell the input type=text etc... what form name they belong to offhand)

-Mce