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Mar 29th, 2008

i have a problem with my form. there are 2 button : a login and a register button . login but will redirect to welcome.php, register to register.php. i put the action in the form like this
<form name="login" method="post" action="welcome.php" >
the problem is both buttons turn me to welcome.php, how can i solve this ? thanks alot

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Re: form coding

Mar 29th, 2008

You must close each form with </form> and make sure that one form is not within another.

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Re: form coding

Mar 30th, 2008

then, how can put the 2 button within a row ?

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Re: form coding

Mar 30th, 2008

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<html>
<body>
<form method="post" name="test">
<input type="button" name="button1" value="login" onClick="javascript: 
 
document.test.action='login.php';document.test.submit();"><input type="button" name="button2" value="Register" 
 
onClick="javascript: document.test.action='register.php';document.test.submit();">
</form>
</body>
</html>
<html>
<body>
<form method="post" name="test">
<input type="button" name="button1" value="login" onClick="javascript<b></b>: 

document.test.action='login.php';document.test.submit();"><input type="button" name="button2" value="Register" 

onClick="javascript<b></b>: document.test.action='register.php';document.test.submit();">
</form>
</body>
</html>

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Re: form coding

Mar 31st, 2008

wow great, thanks alot

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And if the user has javascript turned off? Nothing happens, not good.

Your are far better to structure you page in such a way as to not depend on javascript.

Most login/register pages have form inputs for username and password for registered members, and a simple linked button to the registration page if the user is not registered:

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<html>
<body>
<form method="post" name="test" action='welcome.php';>
<input type="submit" name="button1" value="login"><a href="register.php"><input type="button" name="button2" value="Register"></a>
</form>
</body>
</html>

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Re: form coding

Mar 31st, 2008

If javascript is disabled, even the form validation/ajax wouldn't work.

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If javascript is disabled, even the form validation/ajax wouldn't work.

What Ajax? A well written script will function without either javascript or Ajax. A good example: http://holyculturedownload.com/

This is a heavily Ajaxed site. Turn off javascript and it is still functional - this allows it to have Google results like this and for users to still browse the site.

A form should not rely only on javascript for validation - the PHP side should also check the $_POST data.

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What Ajax? A well written script will function without either javascript or Ajax. A good example: http://holyculturedownload.com/

That unfortunately, didn't work in FF2 when I disabled javascript. Click on the "Listen" button to test. Strangely, even gmail's "send" button didn't work when I disabled javascript.

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A form should not rely only on javascript for validation - the PHP side should also check the $_POST data.

Yes, ofcourse.

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Originally Posted by nav33n

That unfortunately, didn't work in FF2 when I disabled javascript. Click on the "Listen" button to test. Strangely, even gmail's "send" button didn't work when I disabled javascript.

Now that is pedantic... the "listen" button is clearly a javascript/Ajax control. The point was that the SITE functions without javascript for the purpose of search engine indexing (which it does very well).... I dont believe that Googlebot listens to music

I think you will find that the signup page functions quite fine without Javascript (it does have it).

Similarly, forms should be designed not to be dependent on Javascript to accomplish their purpose. That Gmail fails for something so fundamental is surprising, but not acceptable.

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