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($_POST['submit'])){
Do actions, display calculations}
Now I want a second submit button that still grabs the data they entered but then goes to a different address. Is there an elegant way to do this?
You could add an onclick
method to the new submit button that will change the action of the form and then submit it.
<script type="text/javascript">
function submitForm(action) {
var form = document.getElementById('form1');
form.action = action;
form.submit();
}
</script>
...
<form id="form1">
<!-- ... -->
<input type="button" onclick="submitForm('page1.php')" value="submit 1" />
<input type="button" onclick="submitForm('page2.php')" value="submit 2" />
</form>
You can change the form action by using formaction="page1.php" in button property .
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" onsubmit="" onreset="" action="programname.php">
<input type="submit" name="calc" value="Find Angle">
<input type="button" type="submit" formaction="page1.php">Action 0</button>
<input type="button" type="submit" formaction="page2.php">Action 1</button>
</form>
Note: The formaction attribute of the button tag is not supported in Internet Explorer 9 and earlier versions.
The best way to deal with multiple submit button is using switch case in action script
<form action="demo_form.php" method="get">
Choose your favorite subject:
<button name="subject" type="submit" value="html">HTML</button>
<button name="subject" type="submit" value="css">CSS</button>
<button name="subject" type="submit" value="javascript">Java Script</button>
<button name="subject" type="submit" value="jquery">jQuery</button>
</form>
Action / Server Side script:
demo_form.php
<?php
switch($_REQUEST['subject']) {
case 'html': //action for html here
break;
case 'css': //action for css here
break;
case 'javascript': //action for javascript here
break;
case 'jquery': //action for jquery here
break;
}
?>
Ref: W3Schools