[RESOLVED] FORM sending X Y variables

glima

Hey guys... I'm searching for this on google but I have a lot of return of examples of using FORMS to send variables... My question is: Why is my forms sending X, Y variables although i have not created them anywhere :S
on print_r($_GET) I get:
Array
(
[q] => Search
[searchFor_x] => 14
[searchFor_y] => 15
[searchFor] => play
)

That's the only things I have on my form:

<form id="search_form" method="get" action="searchPage.php">
    <input name="q" type="text" id="s" value="Search" class="search" />
    <input type="image" src="images/btn_search_box.gif" width="27" height="24" id="go" name="searchFor" value="play" alt="Search" title="Search" />
</form>

I have always destroied the variables with the unset() function... but now I would rather not have it because in this case the value is sent as a parameter for a search on my DB and that reflects on my URL :S
Independent of the method I use (POST or GET) it still returs me those XY variables.
If some one knows what is going on I would appreciate any help.

Thanks very much.
Gill

djjjozsi

the type="image" will send you the x and y coordinates of the mouse on your image when you click on it...🙂

Weedpacket

...and CSS lets you style a submit button to look like an image.

NogDog

Weedpacket;10902136 wrote:
...and CSS lets you style a submit button to look like an image.

Or you could use a button element:

<style type="text/css">
button#go {
   border: none;
   background-color: transparent;
}
</style>
. . .
<button type="submit" name="SearchFor" id="go" value="play">
<img src="images/btn_search_box.gif" width="27" height="24" alt="Search" title="Search" />
</button>

bradgrafelman

And just for reference, here is the applicable reference page from the W3C documentation that explains how an INPUT element with a type of "img" behaves in a form.

glima

Thanks for all the help guys. I changed the images to links with javascript submit.
Now I know why some of my forms goes with those variabes 😛

bradgrafelman

And what about people who have Javascript disabled?