Re: [ILUG-BOM] OT Sending extra variables to a php script

Sometime on Jan 27, NK cobbled together some glyphs to say:

Assuming that you have a submit button in each of your forms, another approach would be to use the same name attribute for the different submit buttons, with different values for the value attribute in

doesn't translate well. this will bite you in the backside when you want to internationalise your site. better is to have a different name for the submit button. then you just check for the existence of that variable:

<form ...> <input type="submit" name="form1-submit"> </form>

<form ...> <input type="submit" name="form2-submit"> </form>

PHP:

if(isset($_REQUEST['form1-submit'])) { // form1 } elseif(isset($_REQUEST['form2-submit'])) { // form2 }