Determining Button used to Submit with PHP

Question

I am creating a management engine that needs to manage sections and then pages within the sections.

For usability it has been decided that the display order fields will

Answer 1

Instead of having a different name attribute for your buttons, i suggest that you keep the name the same eg name="edit_btn".

Then you can simply put the ID in the buttons value attribute and read it with $_POST['edit_btn'] on the PHP side.

html:

Edit

PHP:

var_dump($_POST['edit_btn']);

If you for some reason INSIST on keeping the ID in the NAME, you COULD do something like this instead:

HTML:

Edit

PHP:

var_dump(key($_POST['edit_btn']));