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

Answer 1

You can use it as follows,

<td>

<input type="submit" name="save" class="noborder" id="save" value="Save" alt="Save" 
tabindex="4" />

</td>

<td>

<input type="submit" name="publish" class="noborder" id="publish" value="Publish" 
alt="Publish" tabindex="5" />

</td>

And in PHP,

<?php
if($_POST['save'])
{
   //Save Code
}
else if($_POST['publish'])
{
   //Publish Code
}
?>

Answer 2

Give name and values to those submit buttons like:

    <td>
    <input type="submit" name='mybutton' class="noborder" id="save" value="save" alt="Save" tabindex="4" />
    </td>
    <td>
    <input type="submit" name='mybutton' class="noborder" id="publish" value="publish" alt="Publish" tabindex="5" />
    </td>

and then in your php script you could check

if($_POST['mybutton'] == 'save')
{
  ///do save processing
}
elseif($_POST['mybutton'] == 'publish')
{
  ///do publish processing here
}

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Give each input a name attribute. Only the clicked input's name attribute will be sent to the server.

<input type="submit" name="publish" value="Publish">
<input type="submit" name="save" value="Save">

And then

<?php
    if (isset($_POST['publish'])) {
        # Publish-button was clicked
    }
    elseif (isset($_POST['save'])) {
        # Save-button was clicked
    }
?>

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].