button vs link

maciek4

Buttons have names

<input align="center" name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit">

and when you click on it you get redirected to another page. On another page you can refer to the name of the button

if (isset ($_POST['submit']))
{do something;
}

What if I want to replace a button with a link.

 echo '<a href="'.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].'">Edit</a>

How would I refer to this link on another page?

Houdini

A link such as an anchor can have either an id or a name such as <a href="some.page" id="123">Some Page</a> the name is deprecated so you would use the id as shown

maciek4

I have to go to commit.php so
add_new.php

echo '<a href="commit.php" name="edit">Edit</a>';

commit.php

<?php
if (isset ($_GET['edit']))  { 

  echo'<form action="add_new.php" method="POST" name="myform">

   <TR><TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="middle" width="40%"> Name:&nbsp;
</TD> 
 <TD ALIGN="right" valign="middle"><input name="name" size="27" type="text" value="'.$_POST['name'].'"> </TD>
 </TR>
 <TR><TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="middle">Description:&nbsp;</TD>
 <TD ALIGN="right"><textarea name="desc" rows="5">'.$_POST['desc'].'</textarea>

   </TD>
   </TR>
   <TR>
   <TD colspan="2" align="center"><center><input align="center" name="submit" type="submit" value="submit"></center>
   </TD>
   </TR>
   </form>';  

    } 

?>

goes back to commit.php but no values are in the fields

Weedpacket

Or you could use CSS to make the button look like a link.

(But on accessibility grounds, using a link to do a button's job, or a button to do a link's job for that matter, is considered poor design practice.)

dinger

Weedpacket wrote:
Or you could use CSS to make the button look like a link.

(But on accessibility grounds, using a link to do a button's job, or a button to do a link's job for that matter, is considered poor design practice.)

Do this:

<A HREF="commit.php?variable1=yourName&variable2=yourAddress">Click here</A>

This will pass the values "yourName" and "yourAddress" to $GET['variable1'] and $GET['variable2'] respectively. Simply change the values and variable names accordingly. I believe you can pass as many variables are as necessary by appending them to the URL with a "&" separating the variable/value pairs.

Hope this helps.