I am not able to post form on same page - php

Question

Here are the codes.
Form
<form method="POST" action="" id="search">
<div class="col-lg-4 center"><a class="btn btn-success" type="submit" name="publish" id="publish" alt="Publish"> Publish</a></div>
<div class="col-lg-4 center"><a class="btn btn-success" type="submit" name="edit" id="edit" alt="Edit"> Edit </a></div>
<div class="col-lg-4 center"><a class="btn btn-success" type="submit" name="draft" id="draft" alt="Save as Draft"> Save as Draft</a></div>
</form>
Post
<?php
if ($_POST['publish'] == 'publish'){
echo '<script>alert("Publish"); </script>';
}
if ($_POST['edit'] == 'publish'){
echo '<script>alert("edit"); </script>';
}
if ($_POST['draft'] == 'publish'){
echo 'draft';
}
?>
If I click on any button nothing happens. I am not getting anything nor any error. Nothing appears in firebug as well.

Answer 1

You wanted to submit to the same page. Try giving the page name in your action
<form method="POST" action="yourpage.php" id="search">

Answer 2

Try with this:
<?php
if (isset($_POST['publish'])) {
echo '<script>alert("Publish"); </script>';
}
if (isset($_POST['edit'])) {
echo '<script>alert("edit"); </script>';
}
if (isset($_POST['draft'])) {
echo 'draft';
}
?>

Answer 3

use button instead of links
like
<input type="submit" ..... />
like this
<input type="submit" class="btn btn-success" name="publish" id="publish" alt="Publish" value="Publish" />
You will get data then
and try to on error reporting in php.ini file

Answer 4

You need to add a submit n
Button. <input type=submit name="submit"> also, specify action attribute in form tag to your Php script.

Answer 5

<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])){
echo '<script>alert("Publish"); </script>';
}
?>
<form method="POST" action="" id="search">
<input name="submit" type="submit" />
</form>

Answer 6

First thing you can not use type="submit" as attribute in your anchor tag.
Second if you wants to submit button using input type as submit then use the following code:
<?php
if(isset($_POST))
{
if (isset($_POST['publish'])){
echo '<script>alert("Publish"); </script>';
}
if (isset($_POST['edit'])){
echo '<script>alert("edit"); </script>';
}
if (isset($_POST['draft'])){
echo '<script>alert("Draft"); </script>';
}
}
?>
<form method="POST" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" id="search">
<div class="col-lg-4 center"><input class="btn btn-success" type="submit" name="publish" id="publish" value="Publish"> </input></div>
<div class="col-lg-4 center"><input class="btn btn-success" type="submit" name="edit" id="edit" value="Edit"> </input></div>
<div class="col-lg-4 center"><input class="btn btn-success" type="submit" name="draft" id="draft" value="Draft"> </input></div>
</form>
Third, In case if you really wants to use only anchor for submit then you have to use help of javascript function submit() and use the
onclick="document.getElementById('search').submit();
in your anchor tag.