On Fri, April 21, 2006 7:45 am, William Stokes wrote: > In PHP. Is it possible to point to a variable with the HTML form name > by > which it was posted from? The FORM name attribute was an add-on for Javascript client-side. It is not transmitted by HTTP. PHP never sees it. > Or do I just have name the variables uniquely? Yes. Or you could just add ONE new INPUT in each form to tell you which FORM was used: <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="FORM" VALUE="AddNew" /> Or you could have just ONE form and use buttons with name for your INPUTs: <form name="irrelevant" ...> <input type="submit" name="AddNew" value="Add" /> <input type="submit" name="DeleteOld" value="Del" /> </form> The button the user clicked on is sent as a variable with HTTP. EXCEPTIONS: If there is only ONE submit button, and if the user hits "Enter" (aka "Return") instead of actually clicking on the button, then some browser do not send the button name/value. If you use JavaScript to do the submit, it's your problem to add whatever inputs you need in JavaScript to make things work... As well as anything in JavaScript works, anyway. Or you could have the FORMs have different ACTION attributes so you know which form sent the data because you have scripts dedicated to a specific purpose instead of some monolithic mess trying to be-all do-all end-all. Or you can use arrays in the NAME attributes to organize things in some cases -- probably not in this particular instance, but keep it in mind for INPUT elements within the same form. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
