1 Form, 2 Actions?

[Mark]

I have a lengthy form (i.e., many inputs) on my form.php page. What's
different about this form than many others I've created is that I want
the user to have a choice of submitting this form data to one of two
pages, choice1.php or choice2.php, both of which read $_POST data from
the form.

Obviously, a 'submit' button will send the user to the page specified by
the form's 'action=' setting, so I would have to employ some sort of
trick. But this is where I'm drawing a blank! What combination of PHP,
Javascript, and HTML would do the trick?

Thanks!
Mark

[ally666]

simply:

Have the form post to submitted.php in there save the variables check
which page it needs to be sent to and use the redirect function to call
the relevant page.. (may have to make the variables global, or it may
still pick them up in the session i can't test at the moment.

Think that should do what you require.

[Treefrog]

ally666 wrote:

simply:

Have the form post to submitted.php in there save the variables check
which page it needs to be sent to and use the redirect function to call
the relevant page..
I think by "redirect function" you mean header("Location: ...")? That
is not a good idea.
If the form is post, and contains a lot of data, then the redirect wont
work because it's a "get". You would need to use something like curl,
to re POST the data.

(may have to make the variables global, or it may still pick them up in the session i can't test at the moment.
eh? No, just use what ever you give to the script. Personally, I never
use globals, they're a sick idea and to be avoided like the plague.
Think that should do what you require.

It will now ;o)

Also, you could change the form action using Javascript. Something
similar to:

<script language="javascript">
function subby_one()
{
document.aform.action="paul.php";
}
function subby_two()
{
document.aform.action="robert.php";
}
</script>
<form action="fred.php" id="aform">
<input type="button" name="butt" onclick="subby_one()">
<<input type="button" name="butt" onclick="subby_two()">
</form>
type of thing... I'm a "trial by error" type of javascript coder, so
that may take a few attempts to get right ;o)

[Kimmo Laine]

"Mark" <Ma**********@noaa.gov> wrote in message
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I have a lengthy form (i.e., many inputs) on my form.php page. What's
different about this form than many others I've created is that I want the
user to have a choice of submitting this form data to one of two pages,
choice1.php or choice2.php, both of which read $_POST data from the form.

Obviously, a 'submit' button will send the user to the page specified by
the form's 'action=' setting, so I would have to employ some sort of
trick. But this is where I'm drawing a blank! What combination of PHP,
Javascript, and HTML would do the trick?

Set the action to page3.php which has only the following:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit1']))
include('page1.php');
else if(isset($_POST['submit2']))
include('page2.php');
?>

And in the form you naturally have

<input type="submit" name="submit1" value="1">
<input type="submit" name="submit2" value="2">

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[Treefrog]

Kimmo Laine wrote:

Set the action to page3.php which has only the following:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit1']))
include('page1.php');
else if(isset($_POST['submit2']))
include('page2.php');
?>

And in the form you naturally have

<input type="submit" name="submit1" value="1">
<input type="submit" name="submit2" value="2">

Which presumes thes destination "action" is on his server. I'd think
that just by the fact that he's wanting to do it this way, would
suggest that the target form is on another box?

[Tony Marston]

I don't see what the problem is. It is possible to have more than one submit
button on any form, with each one having a unique name instead of 'submit'.
So if you have a form with 'buttonA', 'buttonB' and 'buttonC' when the user
presses one of those buttons that will be the ONLY one to appear in the POST
array. I have been using this technique for years, so don't tell me that it
doesn't work.

--
Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net
"Mark" <Ma**********@noaa.gov> wrote in message
news:e0**********@news.nems.noaa.gov...

I have a lengthy form (i.e., many inputs) on my form.php page. What's
different about this form than many others I've created is that I want the
user to have a choice of submitting this form data to one of two pages,
choice1.php or choice2.php, both of which read $_POST data from the form.

Obviously, a 'submit' button will send the user to the page specified by
the form's 'action=' setting, so I would have to employ some sort of
trick. But this is where I'm drawing a blank! What combination of PHP,
Javascript, and HTML would do the trick?

Thanks!
Mark

[Andy Jeffries]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:00:37 +0100, Tony Marston wrote:

I don't see what the problem is. It is possible to have more than one
submit button on any form, with each one having a unique name instead of
'submit'. So if you have a form with 'buttonA', 'buttonB' and 'buttonC'
when the user presses one of those buttons that will be the ONLY one to
appear in the POST array. I have been using this technique for years, so
don't tell me that it doesn't work.

Congratulations...now tell me, did you actually read the post you're
responding to?

He didn't ask about having multiple submit buttons but about having
multiple form actions (target scripts) depending on which button is
pressed.

Re-read and try again...

Regards,
Andy
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[Tony Marston]

The solution is to post to the same form which then stores its data in the
$_SESSION array before passing control to the actual form identified on one
of the submit buttons. The next form, which could be one of several, simply
picks up its data from the $_SESSION array instead of the POST array. This
can be done with standard PHP code without the need for any fancy and
dubious tricks with javascript.

It's not rocket science, just lateral thinking.

--
Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net

"Andy Jeffries" <ne**@andyjeffries.co.uk> wrote in message
news:pa****************************@andyjeffries.c o.uk...

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:00:37 +0100, Tony Marston wrote:

I don't see what the problem is. It is possible to have more than one
submit button on any form, with each one having a unique name instead of
'submit'. So if you have a form with 'buttonA', 'buttonB' and 'buttonC'
when the user presses one of those buttons that will be the ONLY one to
appear in the POST array. I have been using this technique for years, so
don't tell me that it doesn't work.

Congratulations...now tell me, did you actually read the post you're
responding to?

He didn't ask about having multiple submit buttons but about having
multiple form actions (target scripts) depending on which button is
pressed.

Re-read and try again...

Regards,
Andy
--
Andy Jeffries MBCS CITP ZCE | gPHPEdit Lead Developer
http://www.gphpedit.org | PHP editor for Gnome 2
http://www.andyjeffries.co.uk | Personal site and photos

[Jamie Meyers]

You can use JavaScript to change the action of the form. Just name the form
(with id), and use a x = document.getElementById(id); x.action =
"blah.php". Use that in accordance to a certain action of the form (like
choosing a ratio button).

"Mark" <Ma**********@noaa.gov> wrote in message
news:e0**********@news.nems.noaa.gov...

I have a lengthy form (i.e., many inputs) on my form.php page. What's
different about this form than many others I've created is that I want the
user to have a choice of submitting this form data to one of two pages,
choice1.php or choice2.php, both of which read $_POST data from the form.

Obviously, a 'submit' button will send the user to the page specified by
the form's 'action=' setting, so I would have to employ some sort of
trick. But this is where I'm drawing a blank! What combination of PHP,
Javascript, and HTML would do the trick?

Thanks!
Mark

[Richard Levasseur]

Two ways:
You can change the form action using javascript (easy and clean,
really), or
You can read the submit buttons value and proceed accordingly.

The first sounds more like what you want.

Case 1:
<form>
<input fields>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="goto page 1"
onClick="form.action='page1.php';"/>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="goto page 2"
onClick="form.action='page2.php';"/>
</form>

The javascript in the onClick handler of the submit buttons inherits
'form' from the current form they are in, avoiding the use of having to
do getElementByID() or document.formname.action=blalba.

Case2:

<form action="mypage.php">
<input fields>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="goto page 1"/>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="goto page 2"/>
</form>

mypage.php :
<? if($submit == 'goto page 1') { process according to page 1's method
} else { process according to page 2's method } ?>
Obviously this wouldn't work unless the code for both pages could be
consolidated into that single page, in which case you would be better
off using case 1.