Re: [PHP] Using custom button form element instead of standard submit?

2003-02-01 Thread Durwood Gafford
Durwood Gafford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... To make the issues more clear (assuming everyone's not totally burned out thinking about this one), I will submit links to working, example code in a followup post. I'm swamped with a proposal i'm

Re: [PHP] Using custom button form element instead of standard submit?

2003-01-30 Thread Durwood Gafford
sure this would work but it'd be VERY inefficient in my application. It's a file browser application so i have hundreds of folder icons on a page .. the 'submit' element will pass back the name of the button clicked and it would be available immediately/directly, which is what i want. BUT an

Re: [PHP] Using custom button form element instead of standard submit?

2003-01-30 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 12:18 30.01.2003, Durwood Gafford spoke out and said: [snip] sure this would work but it'd be VERY inefficient in my application. It's a file browser application so i have hundreds of folder icons on a page .. the 'submit' element will pass back the name

Re: [PHP] Using custom button form element instead of standard submit?

2003-01-30 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
To add to my message, you could: $buttons = array('sample_a_x', 'sample_b', 'sample_c_x'); $button_pressed = array_intersect($buttons, array_keys($_REQUEST)); If you have everything perfect, i.e. all available buttons are held in the array, and there are no other input fields in your form that

Re: [PHP] Using custom button form element instead of standard submit?

2003-01-30 Thread Durwood Gafford
input type=submit name=sample_a input type=image name=sample_b src=myimg.gif With the first method, you'd need to test for a button named 'sample_a'. For the second method, you'd need to test for a button named 'sample_b_x'. no ... with the first example you can have numerous buttons on the

Re: [PHP] Using custom button form element instead of standard submit?

2003-01-30 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 13:37 30.01.2003, Durwood Gafford spoke out and said: [snip] input type=submit name=sample value=a input type=submit name=sample value=b input type=submit name=sample value=c input type=submit name=sample value=d your php form handler can now simply

Re: [PHP] Using custom button form element instead of standard submit?

2003-01-30 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
At 13:37 30.01.2003, Durwood Gafford spoke out and said: [snip] input type=submit name=sample value=a input type=submit name=sample value=b input type=submit name=sample value=c input type=submit name=sample value=d your php form handler can now

Re: [PHP] Using custom button form element instead of standard submit?

2003-01-30 Thread Durwood Gafford
1lt John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message If that's what you want, then just make each button a normal a href link and pass an variable to the next page in the link (like someone has already suggested). You'd get the same end result. a href=page.php?sample=aimg/a a

RE: [PHP] Using custom button form element instead of standard submit?

2003-01-29 Thread Don Read
On 27-Jan-2003 Durwood Gafford wrote: I can't figure out how to tell which button was pressed by a user when i'm using a button instead of a standard submit form element. This works: input type=submit name=parent value=foo $parent will equal foo This doesn't work: button

Re: [PHP] Using custom button form element instead of standard submit?

2003-01-29 Thread Durwood Gafford
This suggested solution is not quite what i was looking for (I was aware of it already): A: input TYPE=IMAGE NAME=parent VALUE=foo SRC=icon.gif The above uses an image as a bitmap and gets the x,y values where it was clicked. I'd like to use an ICON (instead of a standard submit button) and