Multiple submit buttons php different actions

Question 1

I have a website started where I want to have 2 separate submit buttons, one of which will take data entered and do some calculations to it to display on the same screen. I've got this successfully working with:

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" onsubmit="" onreset="" action="programname.php">
<input type="submit" name="calc" value="Find Angle">

and then I use:

if (!isset($_POST['submit'])){
Do actions, display calculations}

Now I want a second submit button that still grabs the data they entered but then goes to a different address. Is there an elegant way to do this?

Question 2

You could add an onclick method to the new submit button that will change the action of the form and then submit it.

<script type="text/javascript">
  function submitForm(action) {
    var form = document.getElementById('form1');
    form.action = action;
    form.submit();
  }
</script>

...

<form id="form1">
  <!-- ... -->
  <input type="button" onclick="submitForm('page1.php')" value="submit 1" />
  <input type="button" onclick="submitForm('page2.php')" value="submit 2" />
</form>

Question 3

Updated: Use call_user_func($function_name, (optional) $parametrs) + magic __call method. It is exactly the same as in Yii.

public function __call($name,$args) {
   if (method_exists($this,$name)) {
      $this->beforeAction();
      $ret =  call_user_func_array(array($this, $name), $args);
      $this->afterAction();
      return $ret;
   }
}

Now you can simple call $object->a3(). You can have function named a3 in the class, but add private modifier to it.

Question 4

Give each input a name attribute. Only the clicked input's name attribute will be sent to the server.

<input type="submit" name="publish" value="Publish">
<input type="submit" name="save" value="Save">

And then

<?php
    if (isset($_POST['publish'])) {
        # Publish-button was clicked
    }
    elseif (isset($_POST['save'])) {
        # Save-button was clicked
    }
?>

~~Edit: Changed value attributes to alt. Not sure this is the best approach for image buttons though, any particular reason you don't want to use input[type=image]?~~

Edit: Since this keeps getting upvotes I went ahead and changed the weird alt/value code to real submit inputs. I believe the original question asked for some sort of image buttons but there are so much better ways to achieve that nowadays instead of using input[type=image].

Question 5

Refer this :

Multiple submit buttons php different actions

Put this script in your page :

<script>
    function submitForm(action)
    {
        document.getElementById('columnarForm').action = action;
        document.getElementById('columnarForm').submit();
    }
</script>

Modify your input code :

<input type="image" name="camper" onclick="submitForm('formindb_hoh_1.php')" value="camper" src="../images/apps/camperBtn.png" class="submit_button" />
<input type="image" name="medical" onclick="submitForm('formindb_hoh_2.php')" value="medical" src="../images/apps/medicalBtn.png"class="submit_button" />

Question 6

The submit button name attribute is passed to the controller as params[:commit]. So in your case:

if params[:commit] == "save"
end

Multiple submit buttons php different actions

Answers

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