HTML & PHP Question

maco

Hi,

I have a problem on ,y page where I have two input bottons, one for Update and one for Delete. I need to set a flag, U for update and D for delete.

What I ahve done so far in my Update botton my setting is this

<input name="update" type="submit" values="update" onclick="<?php $_SESSION = 'U'; ?>"

While my delete botton;

<input name="delete" type="submit" values="delete" onclick="<?php $_SESSION = 'D'; ?>"

Whenever I press update botton still giving me a flag of D, is this possible ? or is there any othe way to do it ?

Please help and thanks . . . .

forbairt

You're mixing up twoish things here ...

Server Side and Client Side ...

maco

thanks, still new to this, so this is not possible then ... is there other way to set the flag ?

Serbian

You need to do something like this:

[php]<?php

if ( $_SERVER == 'POST' ) {

$submit = $_POST;

if ( $submit == 'Update' ) {
print 'You clicked Update.';
}
else if ( $submit == 'Delete' ) {
print 'You clicked Delete';
}

}
?>
<form method="post" action="<?php print $_SERVER; ?>">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Update" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Delete" />
</form>[/php]

democrates

Remove the javascript from the html.
Change the values attribute to value on each submit button.
In the php script handling the form submission, retrieve the value from each button with something like
$update = $_POST;
$delete = $_POST;
and use a switch command to handle as appropriate.

Edit: Or as Serbian posted! (beat me to it)

forbairt

sorry for the lack of a solution in my response last night ... was busy .. but you've got other responses in the meantime that look good

maco

Guys, thank you very much, I will try that tonight, let you know the outcome.

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