Question

This is quite the pickle…

I have a regular HTML form with a couple option selects and what not, which eventually has a submit button to send the variables to my PHP file (header.php). I also have a second submit button, which submits the form fine, but the issue is I would like to have a text field where the user can type their e-mail ONLY when using the second submit button (which would send the e-mail as a variable to header.php). And since the submit buttons are outside of the tags, I can no longer add the user’s e-mail as a variable to the same header.php.

Is it possible to add the e-mail field content as a variable to the HTML form from a secondary submit button which sends the HTML form variable AND the submit button variable to header.php?

Or is there an easier/another way to do something similar to this?

Thank you very much, any help would be terrific.

Answer 1

Yikes. Sounds to me like you’ll want an interim form-handling page. Like so:

form-handle.php

if (isset ($_POST['email_address']) && isset ($_POST['SecondSubmitButton'])) {
  include ('process-second-form.php');
}
if (isset ($_POST['FirstSubmitButton'])) {
  include ('header.php');
}

Then in each file process them how you need to. Does this help at all? Hope I haven’t misunderstood the question.