I'm having trouble with more then one submit Buttons in HTML & PHP, i tried to code a GUI for a web-based calculator. That's realy easy, but the function in php isn't so easy. So i have this simple GUI with 6 submit buttons:
<?php
$output= isset($_POST['output']) ? $_POST['output'] : "";
function calc(){
//calculate...
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="de">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Calc</title>
<style type="text/css">
.bwidth {
width: 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form action="calc.php">
<h1>
<u>MY Own Calculator</u>
</h1>
<table border="3px" type="box" cellspacing="5px" width="250px">
<tr style="height: 24px;">
<td colspan="3"><input type="text" name="<?php $ausgabe ?>"
value="0" style="width: 98%;" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input class="bwidth" type="submit" name="1" value="1" /></td>
<td><input class="bwidth" type="submit" name="2" value="2" /></td>
<td><input class="bwidth" type="submit" name="3" value="3" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input class="bwidth" type="submit" name="minus" value="-" /></td>
<td><input class="bwidth" type="submit" name="plus" value="+" /></td>
<td><input class="bwidth" type="submit" name="enter"
value="=" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
Now how I can differentiate these many submit buttons? It's even possible to have more than one submit button? I tried it to seperate the buttons by the value... but it didn't work.
And sb has an idea how i can add a value to an existing value in the textfield? So i can push button 1 and it will write 1 in the textfield and when i will push button 2 it will add the number 2 so it will a "12"?
Thanks for all suggestions!
Yes, you can have n number of submit buttons in a form.
Specify the action page in the same line as with the submit button.
UPDATED - IF ISSUES IN IE
You can try to verify which button is set using
isset($_GET['input_name'])
.Or you could name different the inputs:
And in your function:
You can use JavaScript to submit your form. After clicking button, you call JS function that set some hidden element with pushed operation and then submit form to server.
You can do this using JavaScript, first you will have to change your
<form>
to something like:Then the JavaScript and the buttons should look like this:
In your php
When you click on a button its going to be send with your post data to the server. All the post data you find in the $_POST array.
If you want to look whats in the $_POST array you can run this small code:
when you submit the form to
calc.php
Inside
calc.php
check which form element received.The clicked button will be sent with the form, not the others...
Hope it helps...