Help with Buttons

chadowch

Hi
I am currently learning PHP and are wondering the following if you have a form with multiple buttons on it with each a different name, how do you determine which button has been selected.

In this item i want to display values in a grid but the first two colums muust have Edit and delete buttons in it. If you press the edit button for example i want to see in php which button is it. If i know which button has been pressed then the rest would be easy, just a normal sql statement to mySQL with a simple if

if anybody please have any suggestions i would really appreciate it

thank you very much

Johan

Code:
<html><body><form name="frmMain" action=LoginSubmit.php method="post" action="get">
<table width="90" border="2" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
<tr> <td><input type=submit name='edtA1' value ='Edit a1'></td>
<td><input type=submit name='delA1' value ='Delete a1'></td>
<td width = 10> Item A </td></tr>
</table></form></body></html>

NYSiRacer

// Give the buttons the same name, let's say, name="button"

if ($_POST['button'] == 'Edit a1') {
echo 'Edit a1 was pressed';
} else if ($_POST['button'] == 'Delete a1') {
echo 'Delete a1 was pressed';
} else {
echo 'No button was pressed';
}

/* OR */

switch ($_POST['button']) {
case 'Edit a1':
echo 'Edit a1 was pressed';
break;
case 'Delete a1':
echo 'Delete a1 was pressed';
break;
default:
echo 'No button was pressed';
}

chadowch

Hi
Thank you very much it worked
i really appreciate the help.

Johan