calling two Actions in a form

[gen23]

Hi,

I am creating a php program with an HTML integration. Within my HTML code, I called two buttons... my question is, how can I call two different actions or page using a single form? Is this correct?

<form method = "POST" action = "/module/Default/action/Add" , action = "/module/Default/action/Search">

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
<input type="submit" name="search" value="search">
<input type= "text" name="search">

Thank you....

[gufmn]

Just POST form data to your handler script and from there call both of your your other scripts.

[kellog]

You can try somehting liek this:

<form method = "POST" action = "/module/Default/action/Add" , action = "/module/Default/action/Search">

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="search">
<input type= "text" name="search"> 

<?
if ($_POST["submit"] == "submit")
{ do something }
else if ($_POST["submit"] == "search")
{ do something else }
?>

Assuming the form calls the same page on submit, you can have different things happen depending on what button is pressed.

[gen23]

Is it okay to place my
'action = "/module/Default/action/Add" and
action = "/module/Default/action/Search"'
to the command line of if-else?

And if I'm going to use if, then that means that my form would simply look like this?

<form method = "POST">

Or, is it okay for me to use one 'submit' then one 'button' wherein I'll call the action of submit from the form and the action of button using onClick...

I'm really sorry... :o

[rachel2004]

From a usability standpoint, I'm not sure it is wise to put an "add" button next to a "search" button where a user can input values to either be added or searched upon. Might be better to make that two separate forms so users are not confused or accidentlly clicking the wrong button.

Assuming you break up the form in two separate forms, follow gufmn's advice of having the the form handling script take the action based ont the $_POST value it receives. Using onClick is a client-side action. It has nothing to do with form handling by PHP.

kellog also gave a smart workaround to the original post.

The overall design of the form should be looked at again, though. Like I said, don't confuse your visitors or leave room for accidental button clicks by having the "add" button right next to the "search" button in one form. I know you see people do it today by having an "add" and "cancel/reset" button next to each other, but in those cases, the reset or cancel button do not call the form handling script to do any processing, or at least it shouldn't.