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Receiving a POST data

Oct 12th, 2009

Hi,

We can code this way to print something if Exit button is clicked.

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 PHP Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
<form action="process.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="hiddenName" value="Jolly" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Exit" />
</form>
 
if($_POST["submit"] == "Exit") {
   echo $_POST["hiddenName"];
}
<form action="process.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="hiddenName" value="Jolly" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Exit" />
</form>

if($_POST["submit"] == "Exit") {
   echo $_POST["hiddenName"];
}

What about if we use this way. How do i check if Exit button was clicked or not?

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<form name="formExit" action="process.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="hiddenName" value="Jolly" />
<a href="#" onclick="document.formExit.submit()" title="Exit">EXIT</a>
</form>
 
if( ???????????? == "Exit") {
   echo $_POST["hiddenName"];
}
<form name="formExit" action="process.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="hiddenName" value="Jolly" />
<a href="#" onclick="document.formExit.submit()" title="Exit">EXIT</a>
</form>

if( ???????????? == "Exit") {
   echo $_POST["hiddenName"];
}

Thanks in advance

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Originally Posted by veledrom

Hi,

We can code this way to print something if Exit button is clicked.
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PHP Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
<form action="process.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="hiddenName" value="Jolly" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Exit" />
</form>
 
if($_POST["submit"] == "Exit") {
   echo $_POST["hiddenName"];
}
<form action="process.php" method="POST"> <input type="hidden" name="hiddenName" value="Jolly" /> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Exit" /> </form> if($_POST["submit"] == "Exit") { echo $_POST["hiddenName"]; }
What about if we use this way. How do i check if Exit button was clicked or not?
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PHP Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
<form name="formExit" action="process.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="hiddenName" value="Jolly" />
<a href="#" onclick="document.formExit.submit()" title="Exit">EXIT</a>
</form>
 
if( ???????????? == "Exit") {
   echo $_POST["hiddenName"];
}
<form name="formExit" action="process.php" method="POST"> <input type="hidden" name="hiddenName" value="Jolly" /> <a href="#" onclick="document.formExit.submit()" title="Exit">EXIT</a> </form> if( ???????????? == "Exit") { echo $_POST["hiddenName"]; }
Thanks in advance

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<script type="text/javascript">
function submitForm(val)
{
  document.getElementById('submitted').value = val;
  document.getElementById('submitted').form.submit();
}
</script>
<form action="process.php" method="post">
  <input type="hidden" name="submitted" id="submitted" value="" />
  <a href="#" onclick="submitForm('EXIT');">EXIT</a>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
function submitForm(val)
{
  document.getElementById('submitted').value = val;
  document.getElementById('submitted').form.submit();
}
</script>
<form action="process.php" method="post">
  <input type="hidden" name="submitted" id="submitted" value="" />
  <a href="#" onclick="submitForm('EXIT');">EXIT</a>
</form>

Last edited by ShawnCplus; Oct 12th, 2009 at 1:34 pm.

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      <form name="formExit" action="process.php" method="POST">
      <input type="hidden" name="hiddenName" value="Jolly" />
      <a href="#" onclick="document.formExit.submit()" title="Exit">EXIT</a>
      </form>
 
      if( ???????????? == "Exit") {
      echo $_POST["hiddenName"];
       }
<form name="formExit" action="process.php" method="POST"> <input type="hidden" name="hiddenName" value="Jolly" /> <a href="#" onclick="document.formExit.submit()" title="Exit">EXIT</a> </form> if( ???????????? == "Exit") { echo $_POST["hiddenName"]; }

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foreach $_POST as $key -> $value {
if ($value == 'Exit')
$echo $_POST['hiddename'];
}
foreach $_POST as $key -> $value {
if ($value == 'Exit')
$echo $_POST['hiddename'];
}

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Originally Posted by jpdbaugh

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foreach $_POST as $key -> $value {
if ($value == 'Exit')
$echo $_POST['hiddename'];
}
foreach $_POST as $key -> $value { if ($value == 'Exit') $echo $_POST['hiddename']; }

Holy crap no. Just no. A thousand times no.

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I don't have much experience with PHP as I have only done one useful script with it so far for uploading .PDFs as BLOBS, searching them, and downloading them. I am definitley still learning and I was wondering if you could tell me what is wrong with the technuique I used? Is it more efficient to use javascript than looping through the entire $_POST array? Or is it just not good PHP practice? Thanks.

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if(isset($_POST["submit"] ) && $_POST["submit"] == "Exit")
{
//your code here
}
if(isset($_POST["submit"] ) && $_POST["submit"] == "Exit")
{
//your code here
}

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Oct 14th, 2009

Thanks to ShawnCplus. Solved.

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<script type="text/javascript">
function submitForm(val) {
document.getElementById('submittedName').form.submit();
}
</script>
 
<form action="process.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="hiddenName" id="submittedName" value="Jolly" />
<a href="#" onclick="submitForm('this.hiddenName');">SUBMIT</a>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
function submitForm(val) {
document.getElementById('submittedName').form.submit();
}
</script>

<form action="process.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="hiddenName" id="submittedName" value="Jolly" />
<a href="#" onclick="submitForm('this.hiddenName');">SUBMIT</a>
</form>

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<?php
echo $_POST["hiddenName"];
?>
<?php
echo $_POST["hiddenName"];
?>

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Originally Posted by veledrom

Thanks to ShawnCplus. Solved.
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PHP Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
<script type="text/javascript">
function submitForm(val) {
document.getElementById('submittedName').form.submit();
}
</script>
 
<form action="process.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="hiddenName" id="submittedName" value="Jolly" />
<a href="#" onclick="submitForm('this.hiddenName');">SUBMIT</a>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript"> function submitForm(val) { document.getElementById('submittedName').form.submit(); } </script> <form action="process.php" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="hiddenName" id="submittedName" value="Jolly" /> <a href="#" onclick="submitForm('this.hiddenName');">SUBMIT</a> </form>
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<?php
echo $_POST["hiddenName"];
?>
<?php echo $_POST["hiddenName"]; ?>

That won't actually get you the value of the hiddenName element though. You would have to do document.getElementById('submittedName').value . But since you're not really setting the value anyway you can just remove the val argument altogether and remove 'this.hiddenName' from submitForm()