form , form and form

[Anon]

HI,

first of all this is probably not php related
its just that im doing php too so probably some one would asnwer me on this html issue.

i will start with some html code
in this way, i could explain better i think

<form>
<input type=text name=name....>
<input type=submit value=A >
</form>

<form>
<input type=text name=age....>
<input type=submit value=B >
</form>

so what i have here is a couple of
1 edit box and 1 submit a button

so if i have click button A only name is submitted
and age is submitted when B is pressed.

the question is
i want to have another button in that html page where i would be able to submit everything contained the 2 forms

i tried to open another <form> before the first <form>
and enclose </form> after the second form
but it doesnt work .

so is there a way to do it?

thankss

[Anon]

As far as I know that's not possible in the way that you suggest.
But, it is possible to have more than one submit button in a single form.
If you do that, you can have your script work out which submit button was pressed and process the variables accordingly.

[Anon]

Try to put a name in your form...

<form name="A">

[Anon]

Do you have to submit only one at a time?
if so you can try having a form tag around the other form tags, but that probably won't work. If you can submit both but just need to know which button was pushed you could do:

you would only use one form tag
<form method="POST or GET" action="phppage">
<input type=text name=name....>
<input type=submit value=A name="justname">
<input type=text name=age....>
<input type=submit value=B name="justage">
<input type=submit value=C name="both">
</from>

then the php page it submits to would just check what the value of $submit is:
if($submit=="justname"){
do justname stuff;
}
you get the idea.

[Anon]

Additionally, why have separate submit buttons at all. If the user doesn't fill in one of the fields, the variable won't exist in the "action" page. Just check with IsSet() before you try to use them. If you really want to have separate pages for each "action" then have one page test for the variables and then redirect to the appropriate page for processing (Header(Location: ?) I believe).