Two submit forms in same page! How?

[amycrystal123]

I have a Form that lists all the customers. I want to select one customer and move to another page for update or deleting that customer. How can I have 2 submit forms (for "Update" and "Delete")in the same page, redirecting to different php programs?
Please help!
Thanks.
Amy.

[bretticus]

Sure...

<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="frmSubmit" VALUE="Update">
<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="frmSubmit" VALUE="Delete">

//...form handler

switch ($_POST['frmSubmit'])
{
case "Update":
//...update code;
break;
case "Delete":
//...delete code
}

This example stipulates you have both in the same form (as you should unless you absolutely can't.)

[amycrystal123]

Hey Thanks so much!
I've actually have tried the same kind of codes before where I have 2 submit buttons and they perform different codes depending on their value.
But, how can I have 2 or more submit buttons redirecting to different pages?
Could you also enlighten me on the use of redirecting to a different page in PHP?

Thanks.
Amy.

[bretticus]

Well, not sure why you would want to do this, but there are two alternatives.

1) Have different forms for both buttons. This would probably require using Javascript to populate a hidden field or something since the id for the record to delete or update comes from the same select.

2) Make the update & delete buttons buttons only.

<input type="button" name="frmUpdate" value="update" onclick="somefunction('update','http://...')">

<input type="button" name="frmDelete" value="delete" onclick="somefunction('delete','http://...')">

function somefunction(m,sURL)
{
     switch(m)
     {
		case 'update':
			document.formname.action=sURL;
			document.formname.submit();
			break;
		case 'delete':
			document.formname.action=sURL;
			document.formname.submit();
			break;
     }
}

example untested.