How I can POST a Button value in PHP - javascript

I have a form in which i use multiple Checkbox. On Checkboxes i use JavaScript for validation If I checked all checkbox, it proceeds ahead otherwise it show an alert message.
My code is working Well
Problem
Because i have Two Button on my form and they have different functionality. I want to post value of Button on my action page
My Code goes here
<script>
function letter_submit(){
var pr = document.getElementsByName('pr'),
i = 0;
var allAreChecked = true;
for( ; i < pr.length; i++ )
{
if( pr[i].checked=='' ) {
allAreChecked = false;
}
}
if (!allAreChecked) {
alert("Please Check All Checkboxes");
exit;
} else {
alert("All OK");
document.getElementById("approve_letter").submit();
}
}
</script>
<form action="letter_approve_action.php" id="approve_letter" name = "approve_letter" method="POST" >
<input type="checkbox" name="pr" id="pr" value="" /> NL is appropriately addressed.
</br>
<input type="checkbox" name="pr" id="pr" value="" /> Checked Press Release
</br>
<input type="checkbox" name="pr" id="pr" value="" /> Applicable Methodology is rightly Marked
</br>
<input type="checkbox" name="pr" id="pr" value="" /> Respective Sector Study on Website is Updated Within Last 12 Months.
</br>
<button type="button" name="btn_submit" id="btn_submit" value="Approve" onclick="letter_submit();">Approve</button>
<button type="button" name="btn_submit" id="btn_submit" value="Re - Submit" />Re-Submit</button>
</form>
On action page i use
echo $submit = $_POST ['btn_submit'];
and i got an error
Notice: Undefined index: btn_submit in C:\xampp\htdocs\Work_Que_Backup\login\pacra-all\w_q\nl\letter_approve_action.php on line 26

You may use <button> tag.
For example:
<form method="post">
<input type="text" name="myText" value="some text here..."/>
<button type="submit" name="myButton" value="buttonValue">Submit</button>
</form>
The label tht is displayed is "Submit" but you can access your button value from the server with a different value.
It will be accessible with php on server side as:
echo $_POST['myButton']; //buttonValue

The problem in your code is that your button is of type "button", and you trigger the POST by javascript - so the value for btn_submit is never set.
Change the button type to "submit" and move the event handler onclick=... to the form tag onsubmit=.... In your javascript function, you can the cancel the submit by returning false.

Related

HTML - Two forms with 'enter' keypress to know which form I am entering

I have two forms and I would like to make it easy to type in one form text field and press enter and the page knows what form is being filled out.
Form 1 (example: search):
<form action="" method="post" name="form1">
<input type="text" name="txt1" />
<input type="submit" value="Enter 1" />
</form>
Form 2 (example: login):
<form action="" method="post" name="form2">
<input type="text" name="txt2" />
<input type="submit" value="Enter 2" />
</form>
Both passes through a PHP script to validate and off to its correct site.
Search is added to a page that is included in every page (MVC) header and the login is on its own page but both come together in one page as two forms. When logging in on the login page I enter username and password and press enter but it defaults to the search submit button and would like to know its being entered on the login submit button.
Appreciate your help...
If you give your submit buttons a name, you will be able to detect them in PHP.
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Enter 2" />
and later
if ($_POST['submit'] == 'Enter 2') // ...
Since you know the field names you're looking for in each form, you can key off of that:
<?php
if (isset($_POST['txt1']) {
// do one thing
} else {
// do the other
}
<form action="" method="post" name="form1">
<input type="hidden" name="form" value="1" />
<input type="text" name="txt1" />
<input type="submit" value="Enter 1" />
</form>
<form action="" method="post" name="form2">
<input type="hidden" name="form" value="2" />
<input type="text" name="txt2" />
<input type="submit" value="Enter 2" />
</form>
The intval() will validate the posted value.
if (intval($_POST['form']) == 1){}
elseif (intval($_POST['form']) == 2){}
Taken from this article: http://www.javascript-coder.com/html-form/html-form-submit.phtml#multiple
Multiple Submit buttons
You can have more than one submit buttons in a form. But, how to identify from the server side which of the buttons was pressed to submit the form?
One way is to have different names for the submit buttons.
<input type="submit" name="Insert" value="Insert">
<input type="submit" name="Update" value="Update">
In the server side script you can do a check like this :
if(!empty($_REQUEST['Update']))
{
//Do update here..
}
else
if(!empty($_REQUEST['Insert']))
{
//Do insert Here
}
The second method is to have different values for submit buttons with the same name.
<input type="submit" name="Operation" value="Insert">
<input type="submit" name="Operation" value="Update">
The server side code goes like this (PHP code):
if($_REQUEST['Operation'] == 'Update')
{
//Do update here..
}
else
if($_REQUEST['Operation'] == "Insert")
{
//Do insert here
}

jQuery Radio Button function not working properly

I have a form with two radio buttons and a submit button which leads to a specific form based upon the user's selection.
I wanted to use jQuery to change between the two buttons but have gotten myself a bit lost.
Here is my javascript from another file in the proj:
function goTo()
{
var yesButton = $('#yesRad');
var noButton = $('#noRad');
if (yesButton[0].checked)
{
submitForm('yesForm') && noButton.Checked==false;
}
else (noButton[1].checked)
{
submitForm('noForm') && yesButton.Checked==false;
}
Inside the jsp I have the following code:
<form:form action="interested" commandName="user" name="yesForm" id="yesForm">
<input type="hidden" name="state" value="<c:out value="${requestScope.state}"/>" />
<input type="hidden" id="address" name="address" value="${user.address}" />
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="1" />
<input type="radio" name ="radio"id="yesRad" value="yesForm" checked="checked" />Yes<br>
</form:form>
<form:form action="notinterested" commandName="user" name="noForm" id="noForm">
<input type="hidden" name="state" value="<c:out value="${requestScope.state}"/>" />
<input type="hidden" id="address" name="address" value="${user.address}" />
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="1" />
<input type="radio" name="radio" id="noRad" value="noForm" />No<br>
</form:form>
Submit
<script>
$("#yesRad").change(function(){
var $input = $("#yesRad");
var $inputb = $("#noRad");
if($inputb.is(':checked'))
$("#yesRad").prop("checked", false);
else if($input.is(':checked'))
$("#yesRad").prop("checked",true) && $("#noRad").prop("checked",false);
});
</script>
I have gotten some functionality out of my jQuery but it's definitely far from correct..
I hope I was clear and thorough in my question. Thanks in advance!!
To begin with, don't use prop, use attr. prop is slower.
You've defined variables so let's not look them up again. In your if/else statement just use the variables.
I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to do with the &&. I suspect you're trying to set the value of the two inputs. If so, they should be separate statements. If inputb is checked there is no reason to set it to checked, so we can remove that piece.
You probably want this change to fire on both inputs.
$("#yesRad, #noRad").change(function(){
var $input = $("#yesRad");
var $inputb = $("#noRad");
if($inputb.is(':checked')){
$input.attr("checked", false);
} else if($input.is(':checked')){
$inputb.attr("checked",false);
}
});
Solved: Using javascript and taking the radio buttons out of the separate form elements.
First let's take a look at the JSP form elements involved:
<form:form action="interested" commandName="user" name="yesForm" id="yesForm">
<input type="hidden" name="state" value="<c:out value="${requestScope.state}"/>" />
<input type="hidden" id="address" name="address" value="${user.address}" />
</form:form>
<form:form action="notinterested" commandName="user" name="noForm" id="noForm">
<input type="hidden" name="state" value="<c:out value="${requestScope.state}"/>" />
<input type="hidden" id="address" name="address" value="${user.address}" />
</form:form>
<input name="radio" type="radio" id="Yes" value="yes" />Yes<br>
<input name="radio" type="radio" id="No" value="no"/>No<br>
What I did here was simply take the radio buttons out of the separate forms and grouped them together...pretty obvious; now let's look at the javascript file.
function goHere()
{
var yesButton = $('#Yes');
var noButton = $('#No');
var str ="Please select an option first then press the 'Submit' button";
if (yesButton[0].checked)
{
submitForm('yesForm');
}
else if (noButton[0].checked)
{
submitForm('noForm');
}
else
{
document.write(str.fontcolor.font("red"));
}
}
As you can see the function 'goHere();' is going to tell the submit button in the following code where we want to go based on the user's selection on our radio buttons.
Here's the call from our javascript function in a submit button on the form...
<div class="button-panel" id="Submit"><span class="buttons buttons-left"></span>
<button type="button" class="buttons buttons-middle" name="submitBtn" onClick="goHere();">Submit</button>
<span class="buttons buttons-right"></span>
That's it!! Simply put; sometimes, while it's invaluable to learn something new, if it's not broke--etc. Hope this helps someone later on down the line!

Simple JavaScript Checkbox Validation

I usually work with PHP so sadly don't have some basic JS principles down. This is all I want to accomplish--I've seen many posts on this topic but they are usually beyond what I need.
Here is my form:
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox" value="check" />
<input type="submit" name="email_submit" value="submit" onclick="----??----" />
The checkbox is a simple "I agree". I want the submit button to be pressed and it will only submit if that check box is selected.
Here's the thing: I want the simple, cheating way -- no methods -- just some inline code in that form (assuming its not overly long?). This is not a public page, I just need something quick and simple with that type of validation. If its unchecked, it will throw an alert(); if its checked it will submit via post through php and go on as normal.
You could use:
if(!this.form.checkbox.checked)
{
alert('You must agree to the terms first.');
return false;
}
(demo page).
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox" value="check" />
<input type="submit" name="email_submit" value="submit" onclick="if(!this.form.checkbox.checked){alert('You must agree to the terms first.');return false}" />
Returning false from an inline event handler will prevent the default action from taking place (in this case, submitting the form).
! is the Boolean NOT operator.
this is the submit button because it is the element the event handler is attached to.
.form is the form the submit button is in.
.checkbox is the control named "checkbox" in that form.
.checked is true if the checkbox is checked and false if the checkbox is unchecked.
For now no jquery or php needed. Use just "required" HTML5 input attrbute like here
<form>
<p>
<input class="form-control" type="text" name="email" />
<input type="submit" value="ok" class="btn btn-success" name="submit" />
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="0" />
</p>
<p><input type="checkbox" required name="terms">I have read and accept SOMETHING Terms and Conditions</p>
</form>
This will validate and prevent any submit before checkbox is opt in. Language independent solution because its generated by users web browser.
You can do something like this:
<form action="../" onsubmit="return checkCheckBoxes(this);">
<p><input type="CHECKBOX" name="MyCheckbox" value="This..."> This...</p>
<p><input type="SUBMIT" value="Submit!"></p>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
<!--
function checkCheckBoxes(theForm) {
if (
theForm.MyCheckbox.checked == false)
{
alert ('You didn\'t choose any of the checkboxes!');
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}
//-->
</script>
http://lab.artlung.com/validate-checkbox/
Although less legible imho, this can be done without a separate function definition like this:
<form action="../" onsubmit="if (this.MyCheckbox.checked == false) { alert ('You didn\'t choose any of the checkboxes!'); return false; } else { return true; }">
<p><input type="CHECKBOX" name="MyCheckbox" value="This..."> This...</p>
<p><input type="SUBMIT" value="Submit!"></p>
</form>
You can do the following:
<form action="/" onsubmit="if(document.getElementById('agree').checked) { return true; } else { alert('please agree'); return false; }">
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox" value="check" id="agree" />
<input type="submit" name="email_submit" value="submit" />
</form>​
Here is a working demo - http://jsfiddle.net/Ccr2x/
If your checkbox has an ID of 'checkbox':
if(document.getElementById('checkbox').checked == true){ // code here }
HTH
var confirm=document.getElementById("confirm").value;
if((confirm.checked==false)
{
alert("plz check the checkbox field");
document.getElementbyId("confirm").focus();
return false;
}
If the check box's ID "Delete" then for the "onclick" event of the submit button the javascript function can be as follows:
html:
<input type="checkbox" name="Delete" value="Delete" id="Delete"></td>
<input type="button" value="Delete" name="delBtn" id="delBtn" onclick="deleteData()">
script:
<script type="text/Javascript">
function deleteData() {
if(!document.getElementById('Delete').checked){
alert('Checkbox not checked');
return false;
}
</script>
Another simple way is to create a function and check if the checkbox(es) are checked or not, and disable a button that way using jQuery.
HTML:
<input type="checkbox" id="myCheckbox" />
<input type="submit" id="myButton" />
JavaScript:
var alterDisabledState = function () {
var isMyCheckboxChecked = $('#myCheckbox').is(':checked');
if (isMyCheckboxChecked) {
$('myButton').removeAttr("disabled");
}
else {
$('myButton').attr("disabled", "disabled");
}
}
Now you have a button that is disabled until they select the checkbox, and now you have a better user experience. I would make sure that you still do the server side validation though.
Another Simple way is to create & invoke the function validate() when the form loads & when submit button is clicked.
By using checked property we check whether the checkbox is selected or not.
cbox[0] has an index 0 which is used to access the first value (i.e Male) with name="gender"
You can do the following:
function validate() {
var cbox = document.forms["myForm"]["gender"];
if (
cbox[0].checked == false &&
cbox[1].checked == false &&
cbox[2].checked == false
) {
alert("Please Select Gender");
return false;
} else {
alert("Successfully Submited");
return true;
}
}
<form onload="return validate()" name="myForm">
<input type="checkbox" name="gender" value="male"> Male
<input type="checkbox" name="gender" value="female"> Female
<input type="checkbox" name="gender" value="other"> Other <br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" onclick="validate()">
</form>
Demo: CodePen
Target it by id and then use this code:
function check(){
if(document.getElementById('yourid').checked
{
return false;
}
else
{
alert ("checkbox not checked");
return false;
}
}
var testCheckbox = document.getElementById("checkbox");
if (!testCheckbox.checked) {
alert("Error Message!!");
}
else {
alert("Success Message!!");
}
Guys you can do this kind of validation very easily. Just you have to track the id or name of the checkboxes. you can do it statically or dynamically.
For statically you can use hard coded id of the checkboxes and for dynamically you can use the name of the field as an array and create a loop.
Please check the below link. You will get my point very easily.
http://expertsdiscussion.com/checkbox-validation-using-javascript-t29.html
Thanks

Can I determine which Submit button was used in javascript?

I have a very simple form with a name field and two submit buttons: 'change' and 'delete'. I need to do some form validation in javascript when the form is submitted so I need to know which button was clicked. If the user hits the enter key, the 'change' value is the one that makes it to the server. So really, I just need to know if the 'delete' button was clicked or not.
Can I determine which button was clicked? Or do I need to change the 'delete' button from a submit to a regular button and catch its onclick event to submit the form?
The form looks like this:
<form action="update.php" method="post" onsubmit="return checkForm(this);">
<input type="text" name="tagName" size="30" value="name goes here" />
<input type="hidden" name="tagID" value="1" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Change" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Delete" />
</form>
In the checkForm() function, form["submit"] is a node list, not a single element I can grab the value of.
Here's an unobtrusive approach using jQuery...
$(function ()
{
// for each form on the page...
$("form").each(function ()
{
var that = $(this); // define context and reference
/* for each of the submit-inputs - in each of the forms on
the page - assign click and keypress event */
$("input:submit", that).bind("click keypress", function ()
{
// store the id of the submit-input on it's enclosing form
that.data("callerid", this.id);
});
});
// assign submit-event to all forms on the page
$("form").submit(function ()
{
/* retrieve the id of the input that was clicked, stored on
it's enclosing form */
var callerId = $(this).data("callerid");
// determine appropriate action(s)
if (callerId == "delete") // do stuff...
if (callerId == "change") // do stuff...
/* note: you can return false to prevent the default behavior
of the form--that is; stop the page from submitting */
});
});
Note: this code is using the id-property to reference elements, so you have to update your markup. If you want me to update the code in my answer to make use of the name-attribute to determine appropriate actions, let me know.
You could also use the onclick event in a number of different ways to address the problem.
For instance:
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Delete"
onclick="return TryingToDelete();" />
In the TryingToDelete() function in JavaScript, do what you want, then return false if do not want the delete to proceed.
Some browsers (at least Firefox, Opera and IE) support this:
<script type="text/javascript">
function checkForm(form, event) {
// Firefox || Opera || IE || unsupported
var target = event.explicitOriginalTarget || event.relatedTarget ||
document.activeElement || {};
alert(target.type + ' ' + target.value);
return false;
}
</script>
<form action="update.php" method="post" onsubmit="return checkForm(this, event);">
<input type="text" name="tagName" size="30" value="name goes here" />
<input type="hidden" name="tagID" value="1" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Change" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Delete" />
</form>
For an inherently cross-browser solution, you'll have to add onclick handlers to the buttons themselves.
<html>
<script type="text/javascript">
var submit;
function checkForm(form)
{
alert(submit.value);
return false;
}
function Clicked(button)
{
submit= button ;
}
</script>
<body>
<form method="post" onsubmit="return checkForm(this);">
<input type="text" name="tagName" size="30" value="name goes here" />
<input type="hidden" name="tagID" value="1" />
<input onclick="Clicked(this);" type="submit" name="submit" value="Change" />
<input onclick="Clicked(this);" type="submit" name="submit" value="Delete" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
You could use the SubmitEvent.submitter property.
form.addEventListener('submit', event => console.log(event.submitter))
Give each of the buttons a unique ID such as
<input type="submit" id="submitButton" name="submit" value="Change" />
<input type="submit" id="deleteButton" name="submit" value="Delete" />
I'm not sure how to do this in raw javascript but in jquery you can then do
$('#submitButton').click(function() {
//do something
});
$('#deleteButton').click(function() {
//do something
});
This says that if submitButton is clicked, do whatever is inside it.
if deleteButton is clicked, do whatever is inside it
In jQuery you can use $.data() to keep data in scope - no need for global variables in that case.
First you click submit button, then (depending on it's action) you assign data to form. I'm not preventing default action in click event, so form is submitted right after click event ends.
HTML:
<form action="update.php" method="post"">
<input type="text" name="tagName" size="30" value="name goes here" />
<input type="hidden" name="tagID" value="1" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Change" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Delete" />
</form>
JavaScript:
(function ($) {
"use strict";
$(document).ready(function () {
// click on submit button with action "Change"
$('input[value="Change"]').on("click", function () {
var $form = $(this).parents('form');
$form.data("action", "Change");
});
// click on submit button with action "Delete"
$('input[value="Delete"]').on("click", function () {
var $form = $(this).parents('form');
$form.data("action", "Delete");
});
// on form submit
$('form').on("submit", function () {
var $self = $(this);
// retrieve action type from form
// If there is none assigned, go for the default one
var action = $self.data("action") || "deafult";
// remove data so next time you won't trigger wrong action
$self.removeData("action");
// do sth depending on action type
if (action === "change") {
}
});
});
})(jQuery);
Right now you've got the same problem as you would a normal text input. You've got the same name on two different elements. Change the names to "Change" and "Delete" and then determine if either one of them were clicked by applying an event handler on both submits and providing different methods. I'm assuming you're using pure JavaScript, but if you want it to be quick, take a look at jQuery.
What you need is as simple as following what's on w3schools
Since you didn't mention using any framework, this is the cleanest way to do it with straight Javascript. With this code what you're doing is passing the button object itself into the go() function. You then have access to all of the button's properties. You don't have to do anything with setTimeout(0) or any other wacky functions.
<script type="text/javascript">
function go(button) {
if (button.id = 'submit1')
//do something
else if (button.id = 'submit2')
//do something else
}
</script>
<form action="update.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="tagName" size="30" value="name goes here" />
<input type="hidden" name="tagID" value="1" />
<input id="submit1" type="submit" name="submit" value="Change" onclick="go(this);"/>
<input id="submit2" type="submit" name="submit" value="Delete" onclick="go(this);"/>
</form>
A click event anywhere in a form will be caught by a form's click handler (as long as the element clicked on allows it to propagate). It will be processed before the form's submit event.
Therefore, one can test whether the click target was an input (or button) tag of the submit type, and save the value of it (say, to a data-button attribute on the form) for processing in the form's submit handler.
The submit buttons themselves do not then need any event handlers.
I needed to do this to change a form's action and target attributes, depending upon which submit button is clicked.
// TO CAPTURE THE BUTTON CLICKED
function get_button(){
var oElement=event.target;
var oForm=oElement.form;
// IF SUBMIT INPUT BUTTON (CHANGE 'INPUT' TO 'BUTTON' IF USING THAT TAG)
if((oElement.tagName=='INPUT')&&(oElement.type=='submit')){
// SAVE THE ACTION
oForm.setAttribute('data-button',oElement.value);
}
}
// TO DO THE SUBMIT PROCESSING
function submit_form(){
var oForm=event.target;
// RETRIEVE THE BUTTON CLICKED, IF ONE WAS USED
var sAction='';
if(oForm.hasAttribute('data-button')){
// SAVE THE BUTTON, THEN DELETE THE ATTRIBUTE (SO NOT USED ON ANOTHER SUBMIT)
sAction=oForm.getAttribute('data-button');
oForm.removeAttribute('data-button');
}
// PROCESS BY THE BUTTON USED
switch(sAction){
case'Change':
// WHATEVER
alert('Change');
break;
case'Delete':
// WHATEVER
alert('Delete');
break;
default:
// WHATEVER FOR ENTER PRESSED
alert('submit: By other means');
break;
}
}
<form action="update.php" method="post" onsubmit="submit_form();" onclick="get_button();">
<input type="text" name="tagName" size="30" value="name goes here" />
<input type="hidden" name="tagID" value="1" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Change" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Delete" />
</form>
<p id="result"></p>
Here is my solution:
Just add dataset in submit button like this:
<form action="update.php" method="post" onsubmit="return checkForm(this);">
<input type="text" name="tagName" size="30" value="name goes here" />
<input type="hidden" name="tagID" value="1" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Change" data-clicked="change" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Delete" data-clicked="delete" />
</form>
In JS access it by:
$('body').on("submit", function(event){
var target = event.explicitOriginalTarget || event.relatedTarget || document.activeElement || {};
var buttonClicked = target.dataset['clicked'];
console.log(buttonClicked);
});
Name the delete button something else. Perhaps name one SubmitChange and name the other SubmitDelete.
I've been dealing with this problem myself. There's no built-in way to tell which button's submitting a form, but it's a feature which might show up in the future.
The workaround I use in production is to store the button somewhere for one event loop on click. The JavaScript could look something like this:
function grabSubmitter(input){
input.form.submitter = input;
setTimeout(function(){
input.form.submitter = null;
}, 0);
}
... and you'd set an onclick on each button:
<input type="submit" name="name" value="value" onclick="grabSubmitter(this)">
click fires before submit, so in your submit event, if there's a submitter on your form, a button was clicked.
I'm using jQuery, so I use $.fn.data() instead of expando to store the submitter. I have a tiny plugin to handle temporarily setting data on an element that looks like this:
$.fn.briefData = function(key, value){
var $el = this;
$el.data(key, value);
setTimeout(function(){
$el.removeData(key);
}, 0);
};
and I attach it to buttons like this:
$(':button, :submit').live('click', function () {
var $form = $(this.form);
if ($form.length) {
$form.briefData('submitter', this);
}
});

HTML form with two submit buttons and two "target" attributes

I have one HTML <form>.
The form has only one action="" attribute.
However I wish to have two different target="" attributes, depending on which button you click to submit the form. This is probably some fancy JavaScript code, but I haven't an idea where to begin.
How could I create two buttons, each submitting the same form, but each button gives the form a different target?
I do this on the server-side.
That is, the form always submits to the same target, but I've got a server-side script who is responsible for redirecting to the appropriate location depending on what button was pressed.
If you have multiple buttons, such as
<form action="mypage" method="get">
<input type="submit" name="retry" value="Retry" />
<input type="submit" name="abort" value="Abort" />
</form>
Note: I used GET, but it works for POST too
Then you can easily determine which button was pressed - if the variable retry exists and has a value then retry was pressed, and if the variable abort exists and has a value then abort was pressed. This knowledge can then be used to redirect to the appropriate place.
This method needs no Javascript.
Note: This question and answer was from so many years ago when "wanting to avoid relying on Javascript" was more of a thing than it is today. Today I would not consider writing extra server-side functionality for something like this. Indeed, I think that in most instances where I would need to submit form data to more than one target, I'd probably be doing something that justified doing a lot of the logic client-side in Javascript and using XMLHttpRequest (or indeed, the Fetch API) instead.
It is more appropriate to approach this problem with the mentality that a form will have a default action tied to one submit button, and then an alternative action bound to a plain button. The difference here is that whichever one goes under the submit will be the one used when a user submits the form by pressing enter, while the other one will only be fired when a user explicitly clicks on the button.
Anyhow, with that in mind, this should do it:
<form id='myform' action='jquery.php' method='GET'>
<input type='submit' id='btn1' value='Normal Submit'>
<input type='button' id='btn2' value='New Window'>
</form>
With this javascript:
var form = document.getElementById('myform');
form.onsubmit = function() {
form.target = '_self';
};
document.getElementById('btn2').onclick = function() {
form.target = '_blank';
form.submit();
}
Approaches that bind code to the submit button's click event will not work on IE.
In case you are up to HTML5, you can just use the attribute formaction. This allows you to have a different form action for each button.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<form>
<input type="submit" formaction="firsttarget.php" value="Submit to first" />
<input type="submit" formaction="secondtarget.php" value="Submit to second" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
This works for me:
<input type='submit' name='self' value='This window' onclick='this.form.target="_self";' />
<input type='submit' name='blank' value='New window' onclick='this.form.target="_blank";' />
In this example, taken from
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75170
You can see the way to change the target on the button OnClick event.
function subm(f,newtarget)
{
document.myform.target = newtarget ;
f.submit();
}
<FORM name="myform" method="post" action="" target="" >
<INPUT type="button" name="Submit" value="Submit" onclick="subm(this.form,'_self');">
<INPUT type="button" name="Submit" value="Submit" onclick="subm(this.form,'_blank');">
Simple and easy to understand, this will send the name of the button that has been clicked, then will branch off to do whatever you want. This can reduce the need for two targets. Less pages...!
<form action="twosubmits.php" medthod ="post">
<input type = "text" name="text1">
<input type="submit" name="scheduled" value="Schedule Emails">
<input type="submit" name="single" value="Email Now">
</form>
twosubmits.php
<?php
if (empty($_POST['scheduled'])) {
// do whatever or collect values needed
die("You pressed single");
}
if (empty($_POST['single'])) {
// do whatever or collect values needed
die("you pressed scheduled");
}
?>
Example:
<input
type="submit"
onclick="this.form.action='new_target.php?do=alternative_submit'"
value="Alternative Save"
/>
Voila.
Very "fancy", three word JavaScript!
Here's a quick example script that displays a form that changes the target type:
<script type="text/javascript">
function myTarget(form) {
for (i = 0; i < form.target_type.length; i++) {
if (form.target_type[i].checked)
val = form.target_type[i].value;
}
form.target = val;
return true;
}
</script>
<form action="" onSubmit="return myTarget(this);">
<input type="radio" name="target_type" value="_self" checked /> Self <br/>
<input type="radio" name="target_type" value="_blank" /> Blank <br/>
<input type="submit">
</form>
HTML:
<form method="get">
<input type="text" name="id" value="123"/>
<input type="submit" name="action" value="add"/>
<input type="submit" name="action" value="delete"/>
</form>
JS:
$('form').submit(function(ev){
ev.preventDefault();
console.log('clicked',ev.originalEvent,ev.originalEvent.explicitOriginalTarget)
})
http://jsfiddle.net/arzo/unhc3/
<form id='myForm'>
<input type="button" name="first_btn" id="first_btn">
<input type="button" name="second_btn" id="second_btn">
</form>
<script>
$('#first_btn').click(function(){
var form = document.getElementById("myForm")
form.action = "https://foo.com";
form.submit();
});
$('#second_btn').click(function(){
var form = document.getElementById("myForm")
form.action = "http://bar.com";
form.submit();
});
</script>
It is do-able on the server side.
<button type="submit" name="signin" value="email_signin" action="/signin">Sign In</button>
<button type="submit" name="signin" value="facebook_signin" action="/facebook_login">Facebook</button>
and in my node server side script
app.post('/', function(req, res) {
if(req.body.signin == "email_signin"){
function(email_login) {...}
}
if(req.body.signin == "fb_signin"){
function(fb_login) {...}
}
});
Have both buttons submit to the current page and then add this code at the top:
<?php
if(isset($_GET['firstButtonName'])
header("Location: first-target.php?var1={$_GET['var1']}&var2={$_GET['var2']}");
if(isset($_GET['secondButtonName'])
header("Location: second-target.php?var1={$_GET['var1']}&var2={$_GET['var2']}");
?>
It could also be done using $_SESSION if you don't want them to see the variables.
Alternate Solution. Don't get messed up with onclick,buttons,server side and all.Just create a new form with different action like this.
<form method=post name=main onsubmit="return validate()" action="scale_test.html">
<input type=checkbox value="AC Hi-Side Pressure">AC Hi-Side Pressure<br>
<input type=checkbox value="Engine_Speed">Engine Speed<br>
<input type=submit value="Linear Scale" />
</form>
<form method=post name=main1 onsubmit="return v()" action=scale_log.html>
<input type=submit name=log id=log value="Log Scale">
</form>
Now in Javascript you can get all the elements of main form in v() with the help of getElementsByTagName(). To know whether the checkbox is checked or not
function v(){
var check = document.getElementsByTagName("input");
for (var i=0; i < check.length; i++) {
if (check[i].type == 'checkbox') {
if (check[i].checked == true) {
x[i]=check[i].value
}
}
}
console.log(x);
}
This might help someone:
Use the formtarget attribute
<html>
<body>
<form>
<!--submit on a new window-->
<input type="submit" formatarget="_blank" value="Submit to first" />
<!--submit on the same window-->
<input type="submit" formaction="_self" value="Submit to second" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
On each of your buttons you could have the following;
<input type="button" name="newWin" onclick="frmSubmitSameWin();">
<input type="button" name="SameWin" onclick="frmSubmitNewWin();">
Then have a few small js functions;
<script type="text/javascript">
function frmSubmitSameWin() {
form.target = '';
form.submit();
}
function frmSubmitNewWin() {
form.target = '_blank';
form.submit();
}
</script>
That should do the trick.
e.submitEvent.originalEvent.submitter.value
if you use event of form

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