"Curt Zirzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > * Thus wrote Torsten Roehr: > > > > > > > > How do you check which button was pressed (read: which action should be > > > > performed) when not relying on this? > > > > > > > > > > The button is generally *not* sent by the browser if you hit enter > > > instead of submit. This *will* happen, so you have to deal with it. > > > > > > If you want to knwo what button was pressed, you have to have > > > different button names or values and check them. A button is just > > > another form element that is submitted. > > > > I believe you are wrong here. I just checked it in IE5 and Opera 7.23. > > Submitting a form by hitting enter IS THE SAME as pressing a submit button > > no, it is simply unpredictable to what will happen, my test case... > > Site: google.com > Browsers: IE6, Opera, Firefox, netscape4 > Test: Enter 'asdf' and hit enter. > > Results: > Opera and firefox sent in the url &btnG=Search, signifying that > the first button has been submited. > > IE6 and netscape4, don't have that parameter in the url. > > In fact, google *had* code that checked for the btnG value and if it > exsited it would display a tip about being able to simply hit > enter. They no longer do that since it is unreliable. > > > > > So from my point of view a form cannot be submitted without at least one of > > the submit button values ending in POST. > > And if it did, which one does it send? If there are multiple > buttons on a page, does it send the one closest to the focused > item? or does it send the very first one it finds no matter how the > page is visually layed out? > > > > > What do you think? > > Never rely on button values to decide on a course of action.
Dear Curt and Justin, thanks for putting so much effort into this topic. Then how do YOU handle this? How do you set up your form actions and how do you check them regardless of the submit buttons? Thanks and regards, Torsten -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
