Question

i am trying to create a link that submits a form. I use this and works fine :

<a name="submit" href="javascript:document.theForm.submit();" class="rollover-button gray small"><span>Send Message</span></a>

However, i have a problem. My previous submit button was :

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send Message" />

When this was clicked, i was getting a $_POST[‘submit’] value that i was checking with isset in my php script, to see whether the form is submitted or not. However, this does not work with my submit link. Does anybody know how i can do that ?

EDIT:

I tried that, as suggested :

<form action="." name="theForm" class="contactForm" method="post">

<input type="hidden" name="submit" value="Send Message" />

</form>

<a name="submit" href="javascript:document.theForm.submit();" class="rollover-button gray small"><span>Send Message</span></a>

But still does not work.

Answer 1

You can create input type of hidden and check for its existence:

if (isset($_POST['hiddenName'])) {....}