I hope my question is clear and has an answer. This my Submit Button (not real code):
while... input type=submit name=$row['ID']
when I click the submit button I need to get its name in the next page. How?
I have different submit buttons and I don't know if the user chose the first, second, third, or x button.
Based on your comment you actually need to find out if a button was pressed. Check the example below.
Here is a simple form with a username input and three buttons to perform a variety of actions on that username:
<form action="next_page.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="myname" />
<input type="submit" name="get_myname" value="Give my name back" />
<input type="submit" name="rand_name" value="I will give you some name" />
<input type="submit" name="color_name" value="Your name as a rainbow" />
</form>
Once one of the submit buttons is pressed, we go to next_page.php and check to see which one it was and perform an action based on that.
<?php
//this is next_page.php
if (isset($_POST['get_myname'])) {
//echo user's name to screen
} elseif ( isset($_POST['rand_name']) ) {
//echo a random name
} elseif ( isset($_POST['color_name']) ) {
//change every letter to a different colour
} else {
//nothing to do here, just nice to have a comment letting you know
}
?>
If the submit button is part of a form with a value, you can access it in the $_POST or $_GET data array on the following page. If your script doesn't know the name of the submit button, loop through the postdata to find it.
Instead of assigning an id to the button name, use query string and submit to your_script.php?id=$row['ID']. Then on the next page use $_GET['id'] to get the button name.
EDIT: matino's answer is more appropriate if it fits your use-case.
If I understand you correctly, you want to get/check the presence of "the_name" after the submission of the following form:
<form method="post">
<input name="the_name" type="submit">
</form>
Now, all POST'ed data is available in PHP's $_POST superglobal, however PHP has no way of knowing which part of the data is the submit button.
There are two possible ways around this:
isset($_POST['the_name']) - this will tell you if the user submitted the form by clicking the the_name submit button (however, if the hit enter, the variable would not be present).submit[the_name] - this way you could find the name of the pressed submit button by looking at array_keys($_POST['submit'])[0].If you dont want to change your application design, you can do simply
foreach ($yourids_used_in_prev_page as $id)
{
if (isset($_POST[$id])) // or $_GET if your form method="get"
{
// and you are get it!
}
}
It is not a beautiful solution, but may be appropriate for you
