[development] Changing button #name?

[Richard Morse]

On Jun 23, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Adam Gregory wrote:

> Actually all buttons in a Drupal form have the name "op" so that you can
> easily determine which button was pressed in the submit function. i.e. if
> ($op = 'blah) or switch ($op).
> 
> If you are using the Drupal Ahah framework for this then your submit
> function should handle it. But since all your buttons are titled Remove,
> what you can do is use $form_state['clicked_button']['#id'] to determine
> which button was clicked in your submit function. As #id is built of the
> array key you give the element in the $form variable.

I know that by default they are all named 'op'. This is my problem; I cannot distinguish the buttons by their '#value', because it is always the same. I'm solving this by setting the '#name' to allow me to determine precisely which button was clicked. If I don't set '#name', then *regardless* of which button I press, the 'clicked_button' structure in the $form_state corresponds to the last button of the same '#value' added to the form. Part of the awkwardness here is that HTML doesn't allow you to display some text in a button while having a different value.

Ricky


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