Question

I have 2 submit buttons in my form and I’m trying to make each one go to a different controller method. I’m trying not avoid the use of multiple forms.

I’m currently using

<button type="submit" onclick="javascript: form.action='restore'">Restore</button>
<button type="submit" onclick="javascript: form.action='delete'">Delete</button>

…which works but I’m not sure if that’s the best method. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Usually I’d like to handle the multiple submits by giving button/input tag a name attr. In this way you can submit and call to one function/action in one same controller, just by checking which button was submitted.
e.g:

<form id="your_form" action="your_controller/process" method="post">
<input type="submit" name="restore" id="restore" value="Restore" />
<input type="submit" name="delete"  id="delete" value="Delete" />
</form>

Then in your controller, there will be a function called “process” doing this:

function process(){
  if(isset($_POST["restore"])) {
    //do your restore code
  }

  if(isset($_POST["delete"])){
    //do your delete code
  }   
}

Hope this would help.