Getting the form id

[beveled edges]

Hi:

If you set the id attribute of a form, how do you access the id's
value from the script handling the post submission?

Cheers,
Aeden

[Andy Hassall]

On 18 May 2004 13:38:18 -0700, be**********@hotmail.com (beveled edges) wrote:

If you set the id attribute of a form, how do you access the id's
value from the script handling the post submission?

You can't; the id attribute is not submitted.

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[Aeden Jameson]

Is it possible to retrieve the value of the name attribute of a form through
$_POST, or some other variable, from script the handles submission?

Cheers,
Aeden

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On 18 May 2004 13:38:18 -0700, be**********@hotmail.com (beveled edges) wrote:

If you set the id attribute of a form, how do you access the id's
value from the script handling the post submission?

You can't; the id attribute is not submitted.

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[Juha Suni]

Aeden Jameson wrote:

Is it possible to retrieve the value of the name attribute of a form
through $_POST, or some other variable, from script the handles
submission?

Cheers,
Aeden

IIRC no, there is no way directly, since that is not submitted.

You would get much better answers if you really asked the _real
question_. What is it that you are trying to do ?

I'll throw a wild guess: You have several different forms on a single
page that all submit to the same .php file through POST, and you want to
know which form was used.

One way would be to use GET with POST to determine the used form:

<form name="form1" method="post" action="myscript.php?from=form1">

and for the second form:

<form name="form1" method="post" action="myscript.php?from=form2">

This way you can differentiate between the forms in the handling script
using $_GET["from"];

Another way of doing the same is by adding a hidden form field to each
form:

<input type="hidden" name="from" value="form1">

and

<input type="hidden" name="from" value="form1">

If it is something else you are trying to do, please let us know.

HTH

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[Jan Pieter Kunst]

In article <40**********************@news.song.fi>,
"Juha Suni" <ju*******@ilmiantajat.fi> wrote:

I'll throw a wild guess: You have several different forms on a single
page that all submit to the same .php file through POST, and you want to
know which form was used.

One way would be to use GET with POST to determine the used form:

<form name="form1" method="post" action="myscript.php?from=form1">

and for the second form:

<form name="form1" method="post" action="myscript.php?from=form2">

This way you can differentiate between the forms in the handling script
using $_GET["from"];

Another way of doing the same is by adding a hidden form field to each
form:

<input type="hidden" name="from" value="form1">

and

<input type="hidden" name="from" value="form1">

For what it's worth, different <input type="submit" /> buttons, like
this, also works:

<form action="myscript.php" method="post">
<input type="submit" name="form1" value="click me" />
</form>

<form action="myscript.php" method="post">
<input type="submit" name="form2" value="click me" />
</form>

And you can also do this with different buttons in the same form.

JPK

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