Control of "Submit"

[djf]

I am trying to develope a multi-purpose page w/fomr that displays different output dependant if the form has been submitted or not.

I have tried if(isset($submit)) {...}
if(@$submit) {...}
and if($_POST['submit'])

without any luck... what am I doing wrong?

[stolzyboy]

is your submit button NAMED "submit"

<input type="submit" name="nameofbutton" value="Send">

whatever name is in the submit tag is what you check isset for

if(isset($nameofbutton))

or

if(isset($_POST['nameofbutton']))

[mogster]

Do you have a value for the submit? And also, the value would be case sensitive, I think. But you could post to a switch?
If you call the switch $run_control, your button would look like this:

<input type="submit" name="run_control" value="Submit form!>

And the php in the recieving end:

switch ($run_control) {
## The case for this form ##
case "Submit form!":
hereYou($do_the_stuff);
break;
## Another case - another output ##
case "Submit me!":
hereYou($do_the_other_stuff);
break;
default:
hereYou($do_the_default_stuff);
}

Thus you just need one page for multiple actions, and your script would be truly multi-purpose 😉
There's no limits to possible cases, and you only need to set the value of the submit-button exactly as the case in the switch.

knutm

[mogster]

I have a switch that has 2750 lines of code :eek: 😃

knutm - just had to check