[Resolved] 1 form & 2 submit buttons

[skeetley]

I have searched for the answer to this question. Unfortunately most people want the form action to go to two different places which is why the 2 submits. Not me.

I have a form. It has 2 pull down menus and 2 submit buttons. I want the form to go to the same .php page when either button is pushed. Thing is, I want the .php page to know which button was pressed and carry out the action based on this and the results of the two pull downs. Essentially I am using the 2 submits like two radio buttons and a submit. I am just trying to cut out the middle man.

Now in my .php page the display works for the variables passed from the 2 pull downs, but it doesn't seem to pick up on the button names. Any ideas gurus?

Thanks.

[YappyDog]

Not without seeing the code you are using........

[skeetley]

Here is the form:

<table width="100%" height="188" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="embeddedtables">
        <form action="firewxdata.php" method="POST">
          <tr> 
            <td colspan="2"><div align="center"><font color="#FFFF00" face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Fire 
                Weather Calculations</strong></font></div></td>
          </tr>
          <tr> 
            <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
          </tr>
          <tr> 
            <td colspan="2"><div align="center">Select <a href="wxstationmap.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Regional Map'; return true" onMouseOut="window.status='Fire Information Services';return true"><font color="#FFFF00">Region:</font></a> 
              </div></td>
          </tr>
          <tr> 
            <td colspan="2"><div align="center"> 
                <select name="region" id="region">
                  <option value="1" selected>Provincial</option>
                  <option value="2">Shield</option>
                  <option value="3">West Boreal</option>
                  <option value="4">East Boreal</option>
                  <option value="5">Parkland</option>
                  <option value="6">Grassland</option>
                </select>
              </div></td>
          </tr>
          <tr> 
            <td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
          </tr>
          <tr> 
            <td colspan="2"><div align="center">Fire Wx Indices</div></td>
          </tr>
          <tr> 
            <td colspan="2"><div align="center"> 
                <select name="product" id="product">
                  <option value="Actual_Noon" selected>Noon Actuals</option>
                  <option value="Forecast_Today">Today's Forecast</option>
                  <option value="Forecast_Tomorrow">Tomorrow's Forecast</option>
                  <option value="Forecast_Extended">Extended Forecast</option>
                </select>
              </div></td>
          </tr>
          <tr> 
            <td colspan="2"><div align="center">&nbsp;</div></td>
          </tr>
          <tr> 
            <td><div align="center"> 
                <input type="submit" name="fwi" value="Get FWI" class="button" onMouseOver="window.status='Get FWI Indices'; return true" onMouseOut="window.status='Fire Information Services';return true">
              </div></td>
            <td><div align="center"> 
                <input type="submit" name="fbp" value="Get FBP" class="button" onMouseOver="window.status='Get FBP Indices'; return true" onMouseOut="window.status='Fire Information Services';return true">
              </div></td>
          </tr>
          <tr> 
            <td colspan="2">
<div align="center"></div>
              </td>
          </tr>
        </form>
      </table>

[skeetley]

And this is how my action page begins:

<?php 

if (!$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'user', 'pass'))
    exit("Unable to make a connection to the database");
if (!mysql_select_db("weather_db", $link))
    exit("Unable to select the database"); 

if ($region=="1"){$choice="'A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H','I','J','K','L'";}
if ($region=="2"){$choice="'A','B','C'";}
if ($region=="3"){$choice="'D','E'";}
if ($region=="4"){$choice="'F','G'";}
if ($region=="5"){$choice="'H','I'";}
if ($region=="6"){$choice="'J','K','L'";}


if (!(isset($fwi))) { // Handle the form.
		// Define a SQL Select Query
		$query = "SELECT * FROM ".$product.", Stations WHERE (".$product.".FMFP_ID=Stations.FMFP_ID) AND (Stations.grp IN(" . stripslashes($choice) . ")) AND (Stations.forecast LIKE 'y') ORDER by 'grp','pos'";
		if (!$result = mysql_query($query))
    	exit("Illegal query");

	if ($product=="Actual_Noon"){$header= "Noon Actuals"; $SFMS="Noon";}
	if ($product=="Forecast_Today"){$header= "Today's Forecast"; $SFMS="Today";}
	if ($product=="Forecast_Tomorrow"){$header= "Tomorrow's Forecast"; $SFMS="Tomorrow";}
	if ($product=="Forecast_Extended"){$header= "Extended Forecast";}

	if ($region =="1"){$regions = "All Regions"; $map="Provincial.gif";}
	if ($region =="2"){$regions = "Shield"; $map="Shield.gif";}
	if ($region =="3"){$regions = "West Boreal"; $map="WestBoreal.gif";}
	if ($region =="4"){$regions = "East Boreal"; $map="EastBoreal.gif";}
	if ($region =="5"){$regions = "Parkland"; $map="Parkland.gif";}
	if ($region =="6"){$regions ="Grassland"; $map="Grassland.gif";}

Now the region and product are passed fine. I currently have !isset because the fwi is never set because it is not passed.

[YappyDog]

Maybe you need to check using something like........

if (isset($_POST["fwi"])) {

[skeetley]

Works like a charm, thank you!