Question

I’m trying to put two submit buttons into one form, one button will update a record and another button will delete it.

<form>
   <input type="submit" value="UPDATE"/>
   <input type="submit" value="DELETE/>
</form>

How these should be handled in php? What’s the best way to do it?

Answer 1

You can just add a name:

<form>
   <input type="submit" name="action" value="UPDATE"/>
   <input type="submit" name="action" value="DELETE"/>
</form>

and use $_GET['action'] or $_POST['action'] (depending if you use get or post for form).

if($_POST['action'] == 'DELETE'){
   //.....
} elseif($_POST['action'] == 'UPDATE'){
   //.....
}