How do I use two submit buttons and differentiate between which one was used to submit the form

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Currently  I have an HTML form where the user will enter a title and text for an article  When it is time to submit  they are presented with two buttons  One is to  save  their article without publishing it  and the other is to  publish  the article and make it public   I m using PHP  and I am trying to figure out how to tell which button was used  in order to store the appropriate corresponding value in the database    lt td gt   lt input type  submit  class  noborder  id  save  value    alt  Save  tabindex  4    gt   lt  td gt   lt td gt   lt input type  submit  class  noborder  id  publish  value    alt  Publish  tabindex  5    gt   lt  td gt    Probably should have mentioned this earlier  but I cannot assign the buttons values because the button is an image  so the text would show up above it

User · Accepted Answer

Give each input a name attribute  Only the clicked input s name attribute will be sent to the server    lt input type  submit  name  publish  value  Publish  gt   lt input type  submit  name  save  value  Save  gt    And then   lt  php     if  isset   POST  publish                 Publish-button was clicked           elseif  isset   POST  save                 Save-button was clicked         gt    Edit  Changed value attributes to alt  Not sure this is the best approach for image buttons though  any particular reason you don t want to use input type image    Edit  Since this keeps getting upvotes I went ahead and changed the weird alt value code to real submit inputs  I believe the original question asked for some sort of image buttons but there are so much better ways to achieve that nowadays instead of using input type image

User · Answer

If you can t put value on buttons  I have just a rough solution  Put a hidden field  And when one of the buttons are clicked before submitting  populate the value of hidden field with like say 1  when first button clicked and 2 if second one is clicked  and in submit page check for the value of this hidden field to determine which one is clicked

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Give name and values to those submit buttons like            lt td gt       lt input type  submit  name  mybutton  class  noborder  id  save  value  save  alt  Save  tabindex  4    gt       lt  td gt       lt td gt       lt input type  submit  name  mybutton  class  noborder  id  publish  value  publish  alt  Publish  tabindex  5    gt       lt  td gt    and then in your php script you could check  if   POST  mybutton       save          do save processing   elseif   POST  mybutton       publish          do publish processing here

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You can use it as follows    lt td gt    lt input type  submit  name  save  class  noborder  id  save  value  Save  alt  Save   tabindex  4    gt    lt  td gt    lt td gt    lt input type  submit  name  publish  class  noborder  id  publish  value  Publish   alt  Publish  tabindex  5    gt    lt  td gt    And in PHP    lt  php if   POST  save           Save Code   else if   POST  publish           Publish Code     gt

[php] How do I use two submit buttons, and differentiate between which one was used to submit the form?

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