help with forms

[jonsof]

I have the form below but nothing outputs when i click on each button, why?

 <form method=post action=<? echo $PHP_SELF ?>>
<input type=submit name=action1 value=action1>
<input type=submit name=action2 value=action2>
</form>

<?
if($_POST['submit']=='action1') {
echo "Action1";}

else if($_POST['submit']=='action2') {
echo "Action2";}


?>

[hand]

<form method=post action=<? echo $PHP_SELF ?>>
<input type=submit name=action1 value=value1>
<input type=submit name=action2 value=value2>
</form>
<?
if($_POST['action1']) {
   echo "Action1";
}
if($_POST['action2']) {
   echo "Action2";
}
// or
print "<hr>";
if($_POST['action1'] == "value1") {
   echo "Action1";
}
if($_POST['action2'] == "value2") {
   echo "Action2";
}
?>

[jonsof]

That's worked perfect BUT in my case didn't, why?

Here is my form

<form action="post_processing.php?<? echo SID ?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<tr> <td colspan="3" align="center">Category : <select name="category" >
<option value="">ÅðéëÝîôå ìßá êáôçãïñßá</option>
<option value="">----------------------</option>
<? mysql_connect("localhost");mysql_select_db(db_name);
$result1=mysql_query("SELECT category FROM categories");
 while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($result1)) {
 echo "<option value=".$row['category'].">".$row['category']."</option>";}
?></select></td></tr>
<tr> <td colspan="3" align="center">
Title <br>
<input type"text" name="title" size="100"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" align="center" valign="middle">
<table align="center" valign="baseline" width=100% height=100%> <tr> <td colspan="3" align="center" valign="middle">
Text Here<br><textarea name="text" rows="20" cols="90" wrap="hard"></textarea></td></tr></table>
</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="3" align="center">Öùôïãñáößá <input type="file" name="file"> </td></tr>
<tr> <td height="2" align="center"><input type=submit name=preview value=Ðñïåðéóêüðéóç></td><td height="2" align="center"><input type=submit name=send value=ÁðïóôïëÞ></td><td height="2" align="center"><input type=reset value=Clear></td></tr>
</form>

and the proseccing.php is that

<? session_start();
if($_SESSION['id']) {include("db_name.php");
mysql_connect("localhost");mysql_select_db(db_name);
$user_id=$_SESSION['id'];
$result=mysql_query("SELECT username FROM users WHERE userid=$user_id");
$user_element=mysql_fetch_assoc($result);


if($_POST["send"]) {

if(($_POST['category'])&&($_POST['title'])&&($_POST['text'])) {

$result_categoryid=mysql_query("SELECT categoryid FROM categories WHERE category='".$_POST['category']."'");
$categoryid=mysql_fetch_assoc($result_categoryid);

if($_FILES['file']['name']) {

$type_image=@getimagesize($_FILES['file']['tmp_name']);
if($type_image[2]){
$name=$_FILES['file']['name'];
if   (is_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name']))
{
    copy($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], "images/".$name);
$result=mysql_query("SELECT id FROM post ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1");
$prefix=mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
$i=$prefix['id'];
$new_prefix=++$i;

$extention=substr($name,strrpos($name,"."));
echo $newFileName=$new_prefix.$extention;
rename("images/$name","images/$newFileName");
unlink($_FILES['file']['tmp_name']);}


mysql_query("INSERT INTO post VALUES (NULL,'".$user_element['userid']."','".$_POST['title']."','".$categoryid['categoryid']."','".$_POST['text']."','$newFileName',now(),DATE_ADD(now(),INTERVAL 2 MONTH)");

echo "<div align='center' valign='center'> Successfully Recorded To Database And The Post Will Be Shown In A While </div>";
echo "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='2; url=text_post.php?".SID."'>"; }

 else echo "You must enter an image file"; }

else mysql_query("INSERT INTO post VALUES (NULL,'".$user_element['userid']."','".$_POST['title']."','".$categoryid['categoryid']."','".$_POST['text']."','',now(),DATE_ADD(now(),INTERVAL 2 MONTH)");

} else "You must fill al the fields"; }

mysql_close();
?>
</body>
</html><? }
else echo "Authentication Required";?>

[ahundiak]

If you give each of the buttons the same name (i.e. name=action then $_POST['action'] will be either action1 or action2 depending on which button is pressed.

I'm not 100% sure that that's legit html. But you are allowed to have other input elements with the same name within a form so it's probably ok.

[jonsof]

Even now i can't understand where the error is 🙁🙁🙁🙁

[jerdo]

Read the post you put in coding. And don't post the same question in multiple places is rude and most of the time people who do that don't read all the responses so it could get fixed in a post that you aren't looking at.