I have two buttons in my form, one is for answer a question and the other is for copy the question.
<div id="question">
<?php echo($question->content) ?>
</div>
<form action="script.php" method="GET" id="question">
<input type="text" name="question">
<button id="answer" onclick="document.getElementById('question').submit()">Answer the question</button>
<button id="copy" onclick="document.getElementById('question').submit()">Copy the question</button>
</form>
The URL of script.php look now like:
script.php?question=sometext
Now I want that when you click at the copy button the URL looks like this:
script.php?question=sometext©
And for the answer button:
script.php?question=sometext&answer
EDIT:
There are much answers where is said: "use <input type> instead of <button>"
The problem is that I can't use a input field as button because the button is outside my form. And I can't put it inside my form
What you can do is to use one hidden field and change it's name according to the pressed button. Something like the following:
<div id="question">
<?php echo($question->content) ?>
</div>
<form action="script.php" method="GET" id="question">
<input type="text" name="question">
<input id="action" type="hidden" name="" value="">
<button id="answer" onclick="document.getElementById('action').setAttribute('name','answer'); document.getElementById('question').submit()">Answer the question</button>
<button id="copy" onclick="document.getElementById('action').setAttribute('name','copy'); document.getElementById('question').submit()">Copy the question</button>
</form>
Although this would give you the result you want at the url, it would be more appropriate to have as the hidden's field name the "action" and to change it's value to "copy" or "answer" through javascript.
Try to make two forms, with a hidden input field with the values. Then you get the extra parametrt in your url when submitting
Change your form to the following
<form action="script.php" method="GET" id="question">
<input id="question" type="text" name="question">
<input id="answer" type="submit" name="answer" value="true">
<input id="copy" type="submit" name="copy" value="true">
</form>
url:
script.php?question=hello©=true
Then you can check
if(isset($_GET['answer']) && $_GET['answer']=="true"){
//answer action
}
if(isset($_GET['copy']) && $_GET['copy']=="true"){
//copy action
}
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I have an HTML input and button:
<form action="validate.php" method="post">
<!-- THE CODE INSERT -->
<div id="code">
<form>
<label></label>
<input id="input" name="InputText" type="text"/>
</form>
</div>
<!-- THE BUTTON ITSELF -->
<input type="button" id="button" name="myButton"><b>Search Archive</b>
</form>
in my validate.php file I have this switch statement:
<?php
switch ($_POST["InputText"])
{
case "someval":
http_header("someaddress.com");
die();
break;
}
?>
the problem is that when I click the button it doesn't do anything. I did this with JS and it worked but it should be noted that I'm really new to web development so if anyone can explain to me what I did wrong and specifically why that would be great. Thanks!
You have a form inside of a form, that won't work. Also, you need to include an <input type="submit" value="submit" /> before you close your form. This is what submits the information from the form to your action="file.php".
A form would typically look like this:
file.html
<form action="validate.php" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="username" placeholder="Enter your username" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
Then you'd do something like this:
validate.php
<?php
echo "Your username is" . $_POST['username'];
The $_POST['username'] is the data gathered from the name="username" input from the HTML. If you write die($_POST); you'll get all the data that is sent through the form.
When you are using type='button' you have to perform the submit by yourself.
So, you can do that using javascript or change to type='submit'.
Example:
<input type="button" id="button" name="myButton"><b>Search Archive</b>
To
<input type="submit" id="button" name="myButton" value="Search Archive" />
you can try this
<form action="/validate.php" method="post">
<!-- THE CODE INSERT -->
<div id="code">
<label></label>
<input id="input" name="InputText" type="text"/>
</div>
<!-- THE BUTTON ITSELF -->
<button type="submit" id="button" name="myButton">Search Archive</button>
</form>
in the div id ="code" you used form tag that's why its not work...delete it will work and button type must be submit
<form id="test" method="post" action="getValue.php">
<input type="submit" name="sample" value="A" customizedValue1="1" customizedValue2="X"/>
<input type="submit" name="sample" value="B" customizedValue1="2" customizedValue2="Y"/>
</form>
I want to know how to get the value of customized attributes of between several radio buttons like example above by using php.
How can i get the value of customizedValue1 and customizedValue2 in php?
Thanks
You can't access directly from PHP to this values, you need to pass them as AJAX POST values to the PHP file like this:
FORM
<form id="test" method="post" action="getValue.php">
<input type="radio" name="sample" value="A" customizedValue1="1" customizedValue2="X"/>
<input type="radio" name="sample" value="B" customizedValue1="2" customizedValue2="Y"/>
<button type="submit"> Submit </button>
</form>
JS
$('#test').on('submit',function(){
var customizedValue1 = $('#test input[name=sample]:checked').attr('customizedValue1');
$.post('getValue.php',{'customizedValue1':customizedValue1});
});
On getValue.php you can access to the value:
echo $_REQUEST['customizedValue1'];
If they are connected to eachother somehow. You can also use the values as an array in html form
<form id="test" method="post" action="getValue.php">
<input type="text" name="data[A][customizedValue1]" value="value1" />
<input type="text" name="data[A][customizedValue2]" value="value2" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$customizedValue1 = $_POST['data']['A']['customizedValue1'];
$customizedValue2 = $_POST['data']['A']['customizedValue2'];
echo $customizedValue1;
echo $customizedValue2;
}
?>
I am done with the search page where the user enters the information and select from the drop-list. I've also added the button AddList where you can have more than one search form with tag names changed. All of the searches will eventually be executed in one Submit button and each search will go in one single query. My table caries all the information and tuples contain only numbers.
UPDATED: I tried changing the input type of the input tags but the enable and disable functions can't seem to work on integers, only on text fields. How can I fix that?
My submission is tomorrow, and here is my search code:
<script type="text/javascript">
$('#exactButton').live('click', function(){
$(this).prev().prev().prev().prev().prev().removeAttr('disabled');
$(this).prev().prev().prev().attr('disabled',true);
$(this).prev().prev().prev().prev().attr('disabled',true);
});
$('#rangeButton').live('click',function(){
$(this).prev().prev().removeAttr('disabled');
$(this).prev().prev().prev().removeAttr('disabled');
$(this).prev().prev().prev().prev().attr('disabled',true);
});
})
</script>
And this is my HTML code:
<button id="button">Add List</button><br><br>
<form id ="form" name="search" method="get" action="test.php">
<div id="div">
<select name ="select" >
...options...
</select>
Value:<input type="text" name="exact" id="exactField" />
From: <input type="text" name="from" id="fromField" />
To: <input type="text" name="to" id="toField" />
<br>
<input type="button" name="answer" value="Range" id="rangeButton" />
<input type="button" name="answer" value="Exact" id="exactButton" />
</div>
<br>
<input type="submit"name="search" value="Submit">
</form>
Thank you in advance..
as Dagon said, you will see all submitted parameters in the URL since you are submitting the form with method GET. here is very good explanation for this: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_get.asp
One idea:
add some custom attributtes to the elements (to the clones too).
this.attr("mycustomattribute","somevalue");
after this, you can get all elements on the page with your custom attribute and your value.
divs = $('div[mycustomattribute="somevalue"]'); //should give all div container with attribute "mycustomattribute" with value "somevalue"
divs.each(function(){
console.log(this,$(this).attr('name'));//show expression (for debug)
});
then you can collect this elements, serialize it and add it to your post Not tested, but an idea.
Kind Regards
In PHP, it's already there.
print_r($_GET); will list all parameters sent by GET method
print_r($_POST); will list all parameters send by POST method.
Then, of course, you will need to iterate in the array to include each values in your query statement.
You can naming input with prefix or suffix correspond to sequence that user click to add list and add those set of inputs to only form.
<form id ="form" name="search" method="get" action="test.php">
<div>
<select name ="select[1]" >
...options...
</select>
Value:<input type="text" name="exact[1]" class="exactField" />
From: <input type="text" name="from[1]" class="fromField" />
To: <input type="text" name="to[1]" class="toField" />
<br>
<input type="button" name="answer[1]" value="Range" class="rangeButton" />
<input type="button" name="answer[1]" value="Exact" class="exactButton" />
</div>
<div>
<select name ="select[2]" >
...options...
</select>
Value:<input type="text" name="exact[2]" class="exactField" />
From: <input type="text" name="from[2]" class="fromField" />
To: <input type="text" name="to[2]" class="toField" />
<br>
<input type="button" name="answer[2]" value="Range" class="rangeButton" />
<input type="button" name="answer[2]" value="Exact" class="exactButton" />
</div>
.
.
.
<br>
<input type="submit"name="search" value="Submit">
</form>
<form action="here.php" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="text">
<div id="one">
<input type="hidden" name="aaa" value="one">
<input type="submit" value="Send">
</div>
<div id="two">
<input type="hidden" name="aaa" value="two">
<input type="submit" value="Send">
</div>
</form>
Now if i click on Send of div ONE or div TWO i have always in $_POST['aaa'] = 'two';
Is possible make one form with two submit with different values?
If i click on div one submit i would like reveice $_POST['aaa'] = 'one' and if i click on div two submit i would like receive $_POST['aaa'] = 'two'.
How can i make it?
I can use for this PHP and jQuery.
EDIT:
I dont want create two form - i dont want showing two many times <input type="text" name="text">
EDIT: maybe i can instead button submit ? but how?
It seems that what you actually want to do is have a value in each of the buttons, see this, for example:
<form action="demo_form.asp" method="get">
Choose your favorite subject:
<button name="subject" type="submit" value="fav_HTML">HTML</button>
<button name="subject" type="submit" value="fav_CSS">CSS</button>
</form>
You'd need two different forms:
<div id="one">
<form ...>
<input type="hidden" name="aaa" value="one">
<input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>
</div>
<div id="two">
<form ...>
<input ...>
<input ...>
</form>
</div>
Standard practice is that when two fields have the exact same name, to use only the LAST value encountered in the form and submit that.
PHP does have a special-case notation (name="aaa[]") to allow submitting multiple values with the same name, but that wouldn't help you here, as that'd submit ALL of the aaa values, not just the one closest to the submit button.
HTML form:
<form ...>
<input type="text" name="textfield">
<div id="one">
<input type="hidden" name="one_data" value="aaa" />
<input type="submit" name="submit_one" value="Submit" />
</div>
<div id="two">
<input type="hidden" name="two_data" value="bbb" />
<input type="submit" name="submit_two" value="Submit" />
</div>
</form>
server-side:
if (isset($_POST['submit_two'])) {
$data = $_POST['two_data'];
} else if (isset($_POST['submit_one'])) {
$data = $_POST['one_data'];
} else {
die("Invalid submission");
}
Instead of showing two submit button, you can show a radio list with two options and one submit button.
Try this:
in html-
<input id="PreviousButton" value="Previous" type="submit" />
<input id="NextButton" value="Next" type="submit" />
<input id="Button" name="btnSubmit" type="hidden" />
in jOuery-
$("#PreviousButton").click(function () {
$("#Button").val("Previous");
});
$("#NextButton").click(function () {
$("#Button").val("Next");
});
then you can see in the form results - what "Button" contains.
I'm trying to create a BMI calculator. This should allow people to use either metric or imperial measurements.
I realise that I could use hidden tags to solve my problem, but this has bugged me before so I thought I'd ask: I can use $_POST['variableName'] to find the submitted variableName field-value; but...I don't know, or see, how to verify which form was used to submit the variables.
My code's below (though I'm not sure it's strictly relevant to the question):
<?php
$bmiSubmitted = $_POST['bmiSubmitted'];
if (isset($bmiSubmitted)) {
$height = $_POST['height'];
$weight = $_POST['weight'];
$bmi = floor($weight/($height*$height));
?>
<ul id="bmi">
<li>Weight (in kilograms) is: <span><?php echo "$weight"; ?></span></li>
<li>Height (in metres) is: <span><?php echo "$height"; ?></span></li>
<li>Body mass index (BMI) is: <span><?php echo "$bmi"; ?></span></li>
</ul>
<?php
}
else {
?>
<div id="formSelector">
<ul>
<li>Metric</li>
<li>Imperial</li>
</ul>
<form name="met" id="metric" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post" enctype="form/multipart">
<fieldset>
<label for="weight">Weight (<abbr title="Kilograms">kg</abbr>):</label>
<input type="text" name="weight" id="weight" />
<label for="height">Height (<abbr title="metres">m</abbr>):</label>
<input type="text" name="height" id="height" />
<input type="hidden" name="bmiSubmitted" id="bmiSubmitted" value="1" />
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<input type="reset" id="reset" value="Clear" />
<input type="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />
</fieldset>
</form>
<form name="imp" id="imperial" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post" enctype="form/multipart">
<fieldset>
<label for="weight">Weight (<abbr title="Pounds">lbs</abbr>):</label>
<input type="text" name="weight" id="weight" />
<label for="height">Height (Inches):</label>
<input type="text" name="height" id="height" /
<input type="hidden" name="bmiSubmitted" id="bmiSubmitted" value="1" />
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<input type="reset" id="reset" value="Clear" />
<input type="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />
</fieldset>
</form>
<?php
}
?>
I verified that it worked (though without validation at the moment -I didn't want to crowd my question too much) with metric; I've added the form but not the processing for the imperial yet.
To identify the submitted form, you can use:
A hidden input field.
The name or value of the submit button.
The name of the form is not sent to the server as part of the POST data.
You can use code as follows:
<form name="myform" method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="frmname" value=""/>
</form>
You can do it like this:
<input type="text" name="myform[login]">
<input type="password" name="myform[password]">
Check the posted values
if (isset($_POST['myform'])) {
$values = $_POST['myform'];
// $login = $values['login'];
// ...
}
The form name is not submitted. You should just add a hidden field to each form and call it a day.
In the form submitting button (id method of form is post):
<input type="submit" value="save" name="commentData">
In the PHP file:
if (isset($_POST['commentData'])){
// Code
}
For some reason, the name of the submit button is not passed to the superglobal $_POST when submitted with Ajax/jQuery.
Use a unique value on the submit button for each form like so
File index.html
<form method="post" action="bat/email.php">
<input type="text" name="firstName" placeholder="First name" required>
<input type="text" name="lastName" placeholder="Last name" required>
<button name="submit" type="submit" value="contact">Send Message</button>
</form>
<form method="post" action="bat/email.php">
<input type="text" name="firstName" placeholder="First name" required>
<input type="text" name="lastName" placeholder="Last name" required>
<button name="submit" type="submit" value="support">Send Message</button>
</form>
File email.php
<?php
if (isset($_POST["submit"])) {
switch ($_POST["submit"]) {
case "contact":
break;
case "support":
break;
default:
break;
}
}
?>
As petervandijck.com pointed out, this code may be susceptible to XSS attacks if you have it behind some kind of log-in system or have it embedded in other code.
To prevent an XSS attack, where you have written:
<?php echo "$weight"; ?>
You should write instead:
<?php echo htmlentities($weight); ?>
Which could even be better written as:
<?=htmlentities($weight); ?>
You can use GET in the form's action parameter, which I use whenever I make a login/register combined page.
For example: action="loginregister.php?whichform=loginform"
I had a similar problem which brought me to this question. I reviewed all the preceding answers, but ultimately I ending up figuring out my own solution:
<form name="ctc_form" id="ctc_form" action='' method='get'>
<input type="hidden" name="form_nm" id="form_nm">
<button type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" onclick="document.getElementById('form_nm').value=this.closest('form').name;">Submit</button>
</form>
It seamlessly and efficiently accomplishes the following:
Passes the form name attribute via a hidden input field, without using the fallible value attribute of the submit button.
Works with both GET and POST methods.
Requires no additional, independent JavaScript.
You could just give a name to the submit button and do what needs to be done based on that. I have several forms on a page and do just that. Pass the button name and then if button name = button name do something.
Only the names of the form fields are submitted, but the name of the form itself is not. But you can set a hidden field with the name in it.