[development] Form with multiple submit buttons

[nitin gupta]

oh , thats the catch.. thanks steven
--
Regards,
Nitin Kumar Gupta
http://publicmind.in/blog/


On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Steven Jones <
steven.jones at computerminds.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When the browser posts the form back to the web server it only sends
> the value of the form elements against their respective names. That
> is, the following input
>
> <input type="sometype" value="value" id="some-id" name="some-name" />
>
> would be posted back to the server as
> some-name = value.
>
> Since buttons are also posted back in the same way there is not way
> for Drupal know which button was pressed if they share the same name
> and value.
>
> Regards
> Steven Jones
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>
> 2009/10/6 nitin gupta <nitingupta.iitg at gmail.com>:
> > Hello,
> > I am having two form submit buttons on a single page, somethings like
> this:
> > $form['submit1'] = array(
> >     '#type' => 'submit',
> >     '#value' => t('save'),
> >     '#submit' => array('test_submit1'),
> >
> >   );
> >
> > [some more for elements in between]
> >   $form['submit2'] = array(
> >     '#type' => 'submit',
> >     '#value' => t('Save'),
> >     '#submit' => array('test_submit2'),
> >
> >   );
> >
> > Now, whether I click on any of them, the submit callback of second button
> is
> > called always. But if I change the value of second button or give them
> > different '#name', everything gets back in place. They call their submit
> > functions respectively.
> > I did not expect such a behavior given this:
> > http://drupal.org/node/144132#buttons
> > Although, they both have same #value but will have different ids in the
> > form, so Drupal has every reason to differentiate between them (or
> not??).
> > Why is such thing happening? Am I missing something?
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Nitin Kumar Gupta
> > http://publicmind.in/blog/
> >
>
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