Image Button and Post Method Help

[Ralph Freshour]

I'm trying to use an image as a submit button - I'm reading Sams Teach
Yourself HTML and the chapter on this doesn't show me the details on
how this is done - I mean I can't seem to see it or grasp how this
works?

I see the tag for the image and I assume I need a form get or post
line but how are the two connected so the clicking on the image button
activates the post method?

Thanks...

[RG]

Re: Image Button and Post Method Help


"Ralph Freshour" <ralph@primemai l.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to use an image as a submit button - I'm reading Sams Teach
> Yourself HTML and the chapter on this doesn't show me the details on
> how this is done - I mean I can't seem to see it or grasp how this
> works?
>
> I see the tag for the image and I assume I need a form get or post
> line but how are the two connected so the clicking on the image button
> activates the post method?
>
> Thanks...
>[/color]


<input type="image" border="0" src="images/login.gif" alt="Trade Login">
RG

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Re: Image Button and Post Method Help


"Ralph Freshour" <ralph@primemai l.com> wrote in message:
news:ekfuivkgnm ak2c2i632nqems3 4lfd4ldag@4ax.c om...[color=blue]
> I'm trying to use an image as a submit button - I'm reading Sams Teach
> Yourself HTML and the chapter on this doesn't show me the details on
> how this is done - I mean I can't seem to see it or grasp how this
> works?
>
> I see the tag for the image and I assume I need a form get or post
> line but how are the two connected so the clicking on the image button
> activates the post method?
>
> Thanks...
>[/color]

I hope this will work for you:

<a href="javascrip t:document.form name.submit()">
<img src='button.gif ' alt='button' border=0></a>

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Kindest Regards,
Olexiy Merenkov

http://www.merenkov.com/olexiy

[Ralph Freshour]

Re: Image Button and Post Method Help

I don't understand what this js code does:

<a href="javascrip t:document.form name.submit()">

Don't I need a method post statement in my form?
I have several graphical image 'buttons' - when the form is submitted
how will the called .php script know which 'button' was clicked on?


On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 13:04:27 +0300, "???????? ??????? ???????"
<alex@zaporizhs tal.com> wrote:
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>
>"Ralph Freshour" <ralph@primemai l.com> wrote in message:
>news:ekfuivkgn mak2c2i632nqems 34lfd4ldag@4ax. com...[color=green]
>> I'm trying to use an image as a submit button - I'm reading Sams Teach
>> Yourself HTML and the chapter on this doesn't show me the details on
>> how this is done - I mean I can't seem to see it or grasp how this
>> works?
>>
>> I see the tag for the image and I assume I need a form get or post
>> line but how are the two connected so the clicking on the image button
>> activates the post method?
>>
>> Thanks...
>>[/color]
>
>I hope this will work for you:
>
><a href="javascrip t:document.form name.submit()">
><img src='button.gif ' alt='button' border=0></a>
>
>-
>Kindest Regards,
>Olexiy Merenkov
>http://www.merenkov.com/olexiy
>[/color]

[Chris Morris]

Re: Image Button and Post Method Help

Ralph Freshour <ralph@primemai l.com> writes:[color=blue]
> <alex@zaporizhs tal.com> wrote:[color=green]
> >"Ralph Freshour" <ralph@primemai l.com> wrote in message:[color=darkred]
> >> I'm trying to use an image as a submit button - I'm reading Sams Teach[/color]
> >
> >I hope this will work for you:[/color][/color]

It doesn't work for me.
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> ><a href="javascrip t:document.form name.submit()">
> ><img src='button.gif ' alt='button' border=0></a>[/color]
>
> I don't understand what this js code does:
>
> <a href="javascrip t:document.form name.submit()">[/color]

It, in browsers with Javascript enabled, possibly submits the form
where the opening <form> tag has the name attribute name="formname" .

In browsers with Javascript disabled it does absolutely nothing, apart
from really winding up the user when they discover the form won't
submit. This is a bigger problem with longer forms.

For a better solution, you should read

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/index.html

and especially

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/imagebutton.html

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> Don't I need a method post statement in my form?[/color]

<form method="post" action="submitt othis.php">

You don't necessarily need it, forms *can* be submitted with 'get'
instead, though whether you *should* or not depends on what the form does.
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> I have several graphical image 'buttons' - when the form is submitted
> how will the called .php script know which 'button' was clicked on?[/color]

http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/www/trysub.html

--
Chris

[Ralph Freshour]

Re: Image Button and Post Method Help

OK, I got it to work and now when I click on one of my image 'buttons'
I can detect which one - however, now I'm reading and trying to see
how to call the correct php script based on what was clicked on.

On my home page I call via post method a dispatch.php script and in
that script I detect which button was clicked on - how do I just call
another php script? For example, if I click on Create I would need to
call the create.php script, if I click on Delete I need to call
delete.php

Thanks...


On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 08:46:32 -0700, "RG" <Me@NotTellingY a.com> wrote:
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>"Ralph Freshour" <ralph@primemai l.com> wrote in message
>news:ekfuivkgn mak2c2i632nqems 34lfd4ldag@4ax. com...[color=green]
>> I'm trying to use an image as a submit button - I'm reading Sams Teach
>> Yourself HTML and the chapter on this doesn't show me the details on
>> how this is done - I mean I can't seem to see it or grasp how this
>> works?
>>
>> I see the tag for the image and I assume I need a form get or post
>> line but how are the two connected so the clicking on the image button
>> activates the post method?
>>
>> Thanks...
>>[/color]
>
>
><input type="image" border="0" src="images/login.gif" alt="Trade Login">
>RG
>
>
>[/color]