: I have a formular with 3 text input fields ( name, fullname, and street )
: and 2 submit buttons.The first submit button start a perl-script "work.pl"
: and the second submit button start an another perl-script "checkup.pl"
: Now, I don't know, how to make one formular with 2 submit buttons, which
: the first submit button start the script work.pl and the another button
: start the script checkup.pl.
Forms in an HTML page are separate from each other, and you'd need
Javascript to make the input fields from one form available to another
on the same page.
Since Javascript is a pain, I would recommend a Perl solution. ;)
Instead of two scripts, just have one. And bind the submit buttons
to a CGI parameter, something like this:
<input type="submit" name="submit_action" value="Checkup">
<input type="submit" name="submit_action" value="Work">
Then have the script check the value of the submit_action parameter.
If it's "Checkup", do whatever checkup.pl does; if it's "Work", do what
work.pl does.
This does mean combining two small scripts into one larger one, so make
sure you do "use strict;" so you don't get messed up with a global
variable somewhere. I write CGI scripts like this all the time with
several views and about a dozen submit actions, and it works out fine.
(Who said Perl doesn't scale? ;)
-- tdk
