<input checkboxes> that belong to more than 1 form?

j0sh

hi there,

is it possible to have input fields that belong to more than one form?

i list some files on my website, and to every file belongs a checkbox.
now i wanted to have a <form action=delete.php name=delete> that deletes all selected checkboxes; but in addition i want a <form action=rename.php name=rename> that renames all the selected checkboxes. so the checkboxes would belong to more than 1 form. you understand?

it his possible?

i have then these 2 submit links:

but this doesnt work. 🙁
anyone knows a solution for this??

thx & gr33tz

j0sh

Anarchyh

Unfortunately to the best of my knowledge the only way to do this would be to have the two forms merged with the checkboxes named according to whether they represent delete or rename.
This would also mean merging the delete/rename scripts or at the very least including one into whichever the form has its action set to.

j0sh

how do you mean that?

my script looks like this so far:

<form action=delete name=delete method=post>
<form action=rename name=rename method=post>

<input type=check name=check1 value=file1>
...
...
...
<input type=check name=check99 value=file99>

<a href="javascript:document.forms[delete].submit">Delete selected files</a>
<a href="javascript:document.forms[rename].submit">Rename selected files</a>

so far, so good, the delete-link works, but the second one doesn't. 🙁

gr33tz

btw it would be enought if i could send a php-variable through the submit-links, something like $action=delete or the other link $action=rename... then the action script could act the way the variable $action is set to...

Anarchyh

[edit]ahh, i see what you mean ... you want to use one check box for renaming and deleting ... Still, nested forms wont work.

You can do it with some funky JS, Hotmail do it with their inbox page ... you could go have a look.

I'm not to good with JS but from the jist of it they use an onclick event to call a JS function which has a different argument depending upon the button pressed ... in your case it would be

funkyFunc("delete")

then in that function they set the action of the form dependant upon the input and call form.submit

For this to work you need to roll it all up in to one form though but i dont think you need to set the action....

j0sh

hrm ok sounds good... i don't have a hotmail account, but i will create one and thake a look at it. 🙂 thanks!

gr33tz j0sh

j0sh

woa, the microsoft code is quite un-oversightable. :p

i thought about another way:

how about creating two links as above for the submit, and in those links i'm having a onmouseover javascript that sets a hidden input field to the appropriate variable?

<form action=delete name=delete method=post> 
<form action=rename name=rename method=post> 

<input type=check name=check1 value=file1> 
... 
... 
... 
<input type=check name=check99 value=file99>
<input type=hidden name=hiddenfield>

<a href="java script:document.forms[delete].submit" onmouseover=[SET HIDDEN INPUT FIELD TO DELETE]>Delete selected files</a> 
<a href="java script:document.forms[rename].submit" onmouseover=[SET HIDDEN INPUT FIELD TO RENAME]>Rename selected files</a>

woudl this work?

Anarchyh

Perhaps .. as i said before though im no JS whizz so i really can't tell. However you will have to definately merge the two forms as nested forms just dont work.

stolzyboy

pretty easy with php, name your checks this

then on the next page, be it update or delete, you can use the while, list each as method to do whatever you want with them, like:

while (@list($key, $value) = each($_POST['check']))
{
echo $value . "<br>";
}

that will list all the items you checked