Input action='delete.php' type='submit' does not run php file

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September 7th, 2009, 02:41 AM

aintcricket

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Input action='delete.php' type='submit' does not run php file

I am using a while function to create HTML records that reflect an SQL database. Each row of data is a form with it's own change and delete submit buttons. Then I ask the button to run the relative change.php or delete.php nothing happens. Both php's should display 'Hello World' when clicked.

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while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr><form>";
echo "<td>" . $row['firstname'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['lastname'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['street'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['city'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['county'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['postcode'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['email'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['phone'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['fax'] . "</td>";
echo "<td><input action='change.php' type='submit' value='Change'></td>";
echo "<td><input action='delete.php' type='submit' value='Delete'></td>";
echo "</form></tr>";
}

mysql_close($con);

September 7th, 2009, 04:26 AM

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Hi there aintcricket,

action is an attribute of the form element not the input element.

Also note that the form element may not be positioned between the tr element and the td element.

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September 7th, 2009, 04:33 AM

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To add to what coothead said... In HTML 4 the action attribute must be specified on the form, not the submit button. (In the working draft of HTML 5, there's a new feature to allow the form's action to be specified via an attribute on submit buttons.)

To have different actions, you must detect which submit button was used. So give each submit button a name so that the name/value pairs can be checked via a PHP script when the form is submitted.

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September 7th, 2009, 06:23 AM

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I don't think it's valid for a form to have a <tr> as its parent.

There's no reason why you can't have a separate form for each button. You might want to set margins, paddings and borders to 0 for the forms and fieldset tags.

PHP Code:


		
			
 $delete_btn = '<form action="delete.php" method="get">'.

              '<fieldset>'.

              '<input type="submit" value="Delete" />'.

              '</fieldset>'.

              '</form>';

              

$change_btn = '<form action="change.php" method="get">'.

              '<fieldset>'.

              '<input type="submit" value="Change" />'.

              '</fieldset>'.

              '</form>';



echo '<tr>'

       '<td></td>'.

       '<td>'.$change_btn.'</td>'.

       '<td>'.$delete_btn.'</td>'.

       '</tr>';

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Input action='delete.php' type='submit' does not run php file

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