Thanks Miguel,
I sort of figured I wasn't doing something right. Thanks for setting me
straight on switching between html and php. Sort of basic, but I didn't know
whether I needed to do that everytime.
Sorry for the delay in replying -- just as I received your message, we had
company over.
Regards,
Andre
On Friday 15 March 2002 19:41, you wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Andre Dubuc wrote:
> > I'd like to control which php file is called when clicking two buttons on
> > the bottom of a form; one called "Add Names", the other "Submit"
> >
> > I've tried the following with no success:
> >
> > *******************************************
> > <form action=
> > switch ($name) {
> > case add:
> > "rap.php" method "get">;
> > break;
> > case submit:
> > "rap2.php" method "get">;
> > break;
> > }
> >
> > . . .
> >
> > <input type="submit" name="add" value="Add Names">
> > <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
> > </form>
> >
> > **************
> >
> > I'm still a newbie, and this is the first time I've tried to use a switch
> > statement. I've probably performed an illegal operation by splitting the
> > <form action . .> statement.
>
> Yup, you're not switching between HTML and PHP properly. Whenever you
> switch between literal HTML code (which is processed by the browser at
> the end of the transmission) and PHP code (which is processed by the
> server before the transmission), you need to indicate this to the server.
>
> Try this:
>
> <form action="<?
> switch ($name)
> {
> case add:
> ?>rap.php<?
> break;
> case submit:
> ?>rap2.php<?
> break;
> }
> ?>" method="get"><input type="submit" name="add" value="Add Names">
> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
> </form>
>
> Notice that all the PHP code is enclosed between <? and ?>. I switched
> back and forth liberally (normally, for the sake of readability, I'd
> probably do "print 'rap.php;'" instead of "?>rap.php<?") so you could see
> how it's possible to switch more or less at any moment.
>
> miguel
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