Question

I am using PHP to generate 10 forms on a page which attach an image as the button and POST hidden values to a _blank target. This works ok in Firefox, all 10 buttons submit and post to a new window. In Safari however only the first button i click will work (whichever one I choose) after that none of the buttons (forms) submit and POST to a new window (!!! whats going on??)

Heres the code –

$id=getId();
echo "<form name=\"clickthrough$id\" action=\"click_through.php\" method=\"POST\" target=\"_blank\"><input type=\"image\" src=\"images/buttons/buynow_a.gif\" name=\"buynow\"/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"id\" value=\"".$id."\"/></form>";

Nothing strange here – the id is actually the id of a song in my database which i have simplified for showing here – but I included it on the end of the form name just incase this was causing the problem.

So to recap I end up with 10 buy now buttons on a page – all of which should post through to a PHP script. The scripts work fine. However in safari once i have pressed any buy now button all of the others stop working (until I refresh the page)

why is this?

— here is the final html that is generated for the buttons

<form name="clickthrough1728" action="click_through.php" method="POST" target="_blank"><input type="image" src="images/buttons/buynow_a.gif" name="buynow"/><input type="hidden" name="id" value="1728"/><input type="hidden" name="location" value="UK"/></form>

<form name="clickthrough1724" action="click_through.php" method="POST" target="_blank"><input type="image" src="images/buttons/buynow_a.gif" name="buynow"/><input type="hidden" name="id" value="1724"/><input type="hidden" name="location" value="UK"/></form>

<form name="clickthrough1718" action="click_through.php" method="POST" target="_blank"><input type="image" src="images/buttons/buynow_a.gif" name="buynow"/><input type="hidden" name="id" value="1718"/><input type="hidden" name="location" value="UK"/></form>

….

I have just tried copying this to a new html file and testing and the same thing happens – the first click will open a new window but no buttons after that will post the form

Answer 1

A Quick check with the following code works just fine
(Safari 5 on Mac)

for($id = 1; $id < 11; $id++) {
   echo "<form name=\"clickthrough$id\" action=\"sandbox/_TestServer.php\" method=\"POST\" target=\"_blank\">
   <input type=\"image\" src=\"images/buttons/buynow_a.gif\" name=\"buynow\"/>
   <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"id\" value=\"".$id."\"/>
   </form>";
}

so it could be your $id. Generate the html and show it like Pekka suggested

Edit
I can’t tell you what goes wrong in safari-windows-land
but i’ve changed the code as follows an tested it on a VM (Win XP, Safari5) and it works:

for($id = 1; $id < 11; $id++) {
   echo "<form name=\"clickthrough$id\" action=\"_TestServer.php?$id\" method=\"post\" target=\"_blank\">
   <input type=\"image\" src=\"add.png\" name=\"buynow\"/>
   <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"id\" value=\"".$id."\"/>
   </form>";
}

every form got its “unique” action target ?$id and this seams to do the trick

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