Question

I have two forms with two submit buttons in one page, one view and one controller should manage them. I want it to perform one action if the first one is clicked, and another action – if the second. I tried this where edit is the name of the form but it doesn’t work:

if($this->getRequest()->get('edit'))

I also tried setting value to the submit buttons but I could’t make it go, too. Please help me to find a way how to identify which button was pressed. 🙂

Answer 1

Give buttons different “name” (not “id”) attributes

<form ...>
...
<input type="submit" name="btnA" value="ActionA">
<input type="submit" name="btnB" value="ActionB">
</form>

Then the controller should analyze the POST data for a variable whose name will be the name of the clicked button:

if (isset($_POST['btnA'])) { 
    /* do A */ 
} else if (isset($_POST['btnB'])) { 
   /* do B */ 
}