Two forms on one page, submit fields from both?

[mrbaseball34]

I have two form tags on one page and need to submit a value from the select in one form with the other form when it is submitted.

How can I do that?

<tr>
  <td bgcolor="#00318C" colspan="10" align="center">
    <font face="Veranda,Arial" size="2" color="white">
    To sort the schedule by team or division, select from the dropdown below and click the Go button.
    </font>
  </td>
</tr>
<form method="GET" action="<?=$PHP_SELF?>">
<input type="hidden" name="month" value="<?=$month?>">
<tr>
  <td colspan="10" align="center">
<?  

echo '        <select name="team" size="1">';
echo '         	<option value="0"';
if ($team==''){ 
echo ' selected';
}
echo '>Full Schedule</option>';
echo '         	<option value="100"';
/* More options snipped */
?>
    </select><br />
    <input type="submit" value="Go">
  </td>
</form>
</tr>
<!-- Here is the Schedule Download stuff-->
<form method="GET" action="download_schedule.php">
<tr>
  <td bgcolor="#f9dfb2" colspan="10" align="center">
    <font face="Veranda,Arial" size="2" color="#00318C">
    To download your schedule in Excel (CSV) format, select your Teamname from the dropdown 
	above and click the Download button.</font><br />
	<font face="Veranda,Arial" size="2" color="#CB0017">
	<b>The Full Schedule and Division Schedules can not be downloaded.</b>	
    </font>
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td colspan="10" align="center">
    <input type="submit" value="Download">
  </td>
</form>
</tr>
<!-- Here is the Schedule Download stuff-->

I need the value of the team "select" when I submit the second form to download_schedule.php.

[DigitalExpl0it]

ok, so all you want to do is somthing like this:

Form #1 (select option) - > (hit submit)

--- Form Posts (same page)---

Form #2 gets Form #1 post

??

[edwardsbc]

The short answer is you can't. Only one "Form" can be submitted. Why don't you just combine the two forms into one form with two submit buttons having different values. Then check to see which submit value was passed on the action page and "act accordingly".

[DigitalExpl0it]

Originally posted by edwardsbc
The short answer is you can't. Only one "Form" can be submitted. Why don't you just combine the two forms into one form with two submit buttons having different values. Then check to see which submit value was passed on the action page and "act accordingly".

unless you use javascript??

[laserlight]

hmm... but JS may not be enabled, so there's a risk there.

Actually, the 1 form 2 submit buttons method is the simplest.
I would suggest giving separate names to the buttons besides different values, so if later you wish to have the button be read as something else you wont need to change the processing part as you'll be looking for the button name there instead.

[mrbaseball34]

Look guys, the code shows that each form calls DIFFERENT
scripts. I DO NOT want to call only one script from a single form
with two submit buttons, nor do I want to duplicate the select in
the second form.

I know there is a way with javascript, but how?

[laserlight]

well it is obvious that if you were to call 2 different scripts within the same form, then these scripts must be combined.

actually, I think you would need only 1 button.
The distinguishing factor would be the variable that you wish to pass to what was the second form.

[mrbaseball34]

I have decided to check the value of the submit button and then
call the download_schedule script from the schedule.php script.
Now, how can I do this, in PHP?

if ($submit=="Download") {
// call download_schedule.php
Exit;
}

[ahundiak]

header("Location: http://www.whatever.com/download_schedule.php?team=$team");

You need to be careful not to echo anything else out before the header function. The manual has more info.

For what it's worth, I think this is the right approach. Javascript would be overkill.

[xblue]

mrbaseball,

is it that you want to trigger the submit button 2 actions, one html output and a download dialog?

If so, the difficulty is coming from the http protocol itself, where only one request can be made at a time, which can receive only one response header and one response body.

Ahundiak's suggestion would not be able to solve this, since the page that redirects must not have any output, and then sending the file would open the download dialog(*) but the browser would keep displaying the originally form (since there is nothing else to display).

There may be a few workarounds such as a meta-tag redirection or a hidden frame which would allow to display a page and send the file. However, both may not be without drawbacks(*).

• Some browsers seem to prefer to display e.g. excel files rather than offering the download when they find they are able to display it, which poses the problem that you can display either html or the file content only. You could try to convince the browser by setting the Content-disposition header, or consider compressing them, I think no browser would try to display cmpressed files.

Hope I wasn't totally wrong about what you are trying to do.

[EviL_CodE]

Not the best code in the world if you must submit two different forms to two different locations from the same page.

The solution is javascript.

Consider POSTing and GETting the form - at the same time.

Use the document.forms[x].action javascript method along with the onSubmit/onClick handlers.

i.e.

function twoForms() {
  frm = document.forms['yourform'];
  frm.action = 'page.php?var1='+frm.formVar1.value+'&var2='+frm.formVar2.value;
}

All values will be POSTed too.

[mrbaseball34]

This is what is working for me and what I'm going to use:

$team   = $_GET['team'];
$submit = $_GET['submit'];
if ($submit == "Download") {
  header("Location: download_schedule.php?team=$team");
 }

Thanks go out to everyone, especially ahundiak...

[mrbaseball34]

How could I redo this to become a POST instead of a GET?

  header("Location: download_schedule.php?team=$team");