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Name of the Form that was POSTed?

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Old August 22nd, 2007, 03:05 PM
Tyler
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Is it possible to determine the name of the form that caused a page to
be submitted? I have seen numerous examples of how to determine the
method of the POST and how to retrieve data elements from the post,
but I haven't seen any way to know the name of the form that caused
the post.

The page that is POSTing to my script has two forms and I'd like to
know if I can determine which one of them was submitted without having
to add a hidden element to the forms.

Thanks, Tyler

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Old August 22nd, 2007, 03:35 PM
Michael Fesser
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re: Name of the Form that was POSTed?


..oO(Tyler)
Quote:
>Is it possible to determine the name of the form that caused a page to
>be submitted?
Forms don't have a name. Any 'name' or 'id' attributes applied to a form
can be used in client-side scripting, but are not submitted to the
server.
Quote:
>The page that is POSTing to my script has two forms and I'd like to
>know if I can determine which one of them was submitted without having
>to add a hidden element to the forms.
IMHO using a hidden element is the most reliable and safest way.

Another way would be to give the submit buttons in each form different
names and check which button was pressed, but this might not always work
as expected.

Micha
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