Problem with forms

chrislive

hi everyone,

I built a script and was testing in Firefox the whole time and then when I switch to IE I get problems...

Basically I have some forms with multiple buttons.

eg. this for filtering a listing

<FORM ACTION="<?php echo "$PHP_SELF?action=mass_action"; ?>" METHOD="POST" NAME="mass_action">

// This form also has other submit buttons using different names.

<select name="filter_type" id="filter_type">
  <option value="">All Types</option>
  <option value="public">Public</option>
  <option value="press">Press</option>
</select>
<INPUT TYPE="image" NAME="filter" src="img/filter.gif" VALUE="filter" title="Filter by Selected Category">

then in my mass_action part I have this:


if($_POST[filter] != ""){ $submit_type = "filter"; $filter_by = $_POST['filter_type']; }

then I can play with the $filter_type values.

In Firefox it handles it perfections but in IE it can not find the $_POST[filter] value 🙁

any ideas how to get around this???

Thanks
Chris

chrislive

Hi I have worked out the problem.. seems IE doesnt like the image button to be used like this.. i change it to type=submit and it works.

chrislive

anyone know how to allow IE to work using the images? i changed to submit but it looks to dang ugly now hahah

seems very funny to me 🙁

bodzan

...i.e. put this in your input image tag...

onClick="submit()"

And it should work, but the downside is that user has to have JS enabled in his brower for it to work...

chrislive

hmmmm

i put like this:
<INPUT TYPE="image" NAME="filter" src="img/filter.gif" VALUE="filter" title="Filter by Selected Category" onClick="submit()">

the problem is that the submit works but using IE it does not seem to recognise the $_POST[filer] value...

any other ideaS??

bodzan

If it's this one:

if($_POST[filter] != ""){ $submit_type = "filter"; $filter_by = $_POST['filter_type']; }

Try using this instead:

if(isset($_POST['filter'])){ $submit_type = "filter"; $filter_by = $_POST['filter_type']; }

chrislive

makes no difference.. i think the problem is in the form/submit button not the handling code (or it wouldnt work for firefox)

very odd.. not sure if it is an issue that IE doesnt support or perhaps even the issue is that Firefox DOES support it haha

Installer

if (isset($_POST['filter']) || isset($_POST['filter_x']))

From IE the values of the x and y coordinates (where the image was clicked), using the name of the input field with "x" and "y" appended, are posted. Other browsers also post the image name value.

bodzan

...I didn't even know that IE has that issue... 😃

Thanx Installer, that is one thing that is good to know...

I use Firefox as well and never came across this...

Come to think of it I never used picture on my forms either so that might be the reason for not knowing this...

chrislive

haha that did it!!! Thank you very much 🙂