image button

[nuttynibbles]

im doing a submit page w a image button "<input type="image" src"../image/btn.gif" name="btnsearch">".. i tried the usual way to extract info from the textbox like this:

if( isset($POST['btnsearch']) )
echo $search = $POST['txtboxsearch'];

but it wont work.

if i use "<input type="submit" name="btnsearch">" it works.. so how do i use image button? tks

[NogDog]

Browsers are not consistent on how they deal with image type submit buttons. Some will send the value as well as the clicked coordinates within the image, and some just send the coordinates. My recommendation would be to either use a hidden field for the value you want to check for on submission, or just check for one of the other input fields. If it's really important for you to know if that button was clicked, then check for something like $POST['btnsearch_x'] and/or $POST['btnsearch_y']. Their values will be the x and y coordinates that were clicked within the image.

[nuttynibbles]

tks dude. i used the isset the textbox instead of the button.. tks =)

[Scriptmaker]

My favorite way of debugging form handlers is to just add this to the top of the page...

echo "<pre>";
print_r($_POST);
echo "</pre>";

Lets you see exactly how everything is being named and the values being assigned.