[SOLVED] 2 different actions, same form

AdRock · October 10th, 2007, 04:40 PM

I have a form where I can add BBCode to a textarea and on it is 3 buttons. 2 of them are submit buttons and the other is a reset button

One of the submit buttons is a Submit button and the other is a Preview button.

I would like the Submit button to do one action like saving the record in a database (which is pretty straightforward) but I want the Preview button to do exactly what it says on the tin.....Preview whatever is in textarea.

How do I go about having 2 different actions depending on which button is pressed? My first and only thought is JavaScript but I have no clue as I've never needed to do this before

alexgeek · October 10th, 2007, 04:42 PM

Can you send the POST info to the preview page and then pass it on to the other in PHP?

AdRock · October 10th, 2007, 04:49 PM

That would be OK if I wanted to preview the post first but what if I wanted to just POST the data straight into the database

alexgeek · October 10th, 2007, 04:54 PM

Yeah, just send the it to the preview page, and then pass it on. So it just goes through the preview page.
Like so:
form - > preview (put posted data into hidden input fields) -> into database page

AdRock · October 11th, 2007, 01:58 PM

Would something like this work

HTML Code:

<input type="submit" name="update" value="Update"> 
<input type="submit" name="delete" value="Delete">

Then using php

Code:


			
if (isset($_POST['update'])) 
{ 
//do something 
} 
if (isset($_POST['delete'])) 
{ 
//do something 
}

c010depunkk · October 11th, 2007, 02:02 PM

That should work just fine. Test it to make sure....