[thelist] Multiple Submit Button per Form?

[Joshua Olson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Blanchard" <jay.blanchard at niicommunications.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:28 AM


> But the form action is the same. I guess I could all of the PHP code in a
> huge case statement and then choose the action as I have done before. I
was
> wanting the action choice to be made differently, but I know that cannot
be
> done. I wanted it done somehow in the form itself, which could be done
with
> JavaScript if need be.

Jay,

It can be done with JavaScript.  You can change the action of the form tag
in the onclick of the submit button,  Such as:

<input type="submit" onclick="this.form.action = 'newaction.asp?foo=bar';"
name="foo" value="bar">

Or, do something like this:  [ warning: untested code ]

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascipt">
  var globalVar;
  function changeAction(form)
  {
    if (globalVar == 1) { form.action = ''newaction1.asp?foo=bar'; return
true; }
    if (globalVar == 2) { form.action = ''newaction2.asp?foo=whatever';
return true; }
    return false;  // they submitted without clicking a button... cancel the
submit
  }
</script>

<form method="post" action="action.asp" onsubmit="return
changeAction(this);">
<input type="submit" onclick="globalVar = 1" name="foo" value="bar">
<input type="submit" onclick="globalVar = 2" name="foo" value="bar2">
</form>



-joshua