PHP Form multiple buttons

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I have a form with 2 buttons, that depending on which is selected will either be deleted or edited from the database. Those are each individual pages using SQL statements (questionedit and questiondelete). However, when i press a button, nothing happens...Any Ideas

Here is my javascript

function SelectedButton(button)
{
    if(button == 'edit')
    {
        document.testedit_questionform.action ="testedit_questionedit.php";
    }else if(button == 'delete'){
        document.testedit_questionform.action ="testedit_questiondelete.php";
    }
    document.forms[].testedit_questionform.submit();
}

Here is my form (being echoed from a loop)

<form name="testedit_questionform" action="SelectedButton" method="POST"> 
    <span class="grid_11 prefix_1" id="" >
Question:<input type="text" name="QuestionText" style="width:588px; margin-left:10px;" value="$row[0]"/>
    <input type="button" value="Edit" name="Operation" onclick="submitForm('edit')" />
    <input type="button" value="Delete" name="Operation" onclick="submitForm('delete')" />
    <input type="hidden" name="QId" value="$row[3]" /><br />
</form>

MatuDuke · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-04 17:29:45Z

2

First of all, your function should be named submitForm

function submitForm(button) {
  if(button == 'edit') {
    document.testedit_questionform.action ="testedit_questionedit.php";
  } else if(button == 'delete') {
    document.testedit_questionform.action ="testedit_questiondelete.php";
  }

  document.testedit_questionform.submit();
}

And then, call submit method from your form.

EDIT:

An alternative to calling forms is: document.forms['FORM_NAME'].submit()

answered Apr 4, 2012 at 17:29

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Niet the Dark Absol · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-04 17:27:20Z

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Look at how you access the form to call submit(). Now look at how you access the form to change the action. One of them is clearly wrong.

answered Apr 4, 2012 at 17:27

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Dion · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-04 17:35:15Z

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It would be easier to make one PHP file, and buttons with different names like this:

<form method="post" action="actions.php">
<input type="submit" name="action1" value="Action 1" />
<input type="submit" name="action2" value="Action 2" />
[...]

And the file actions.php:

if(isset($_POST["action1"])) {
     // action 1
}
elseif(isset($_POST["action2"])) {
    // action 2
}

answered Apr 4, 2012 at 17:35

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