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I've always put something in my form action like "act=dosubmit" and then in the php code I just check for $_GET['act']=="dosubmit". But you can also just check for isset($_POST['submitbuttonname']) or you can have a hidden field.
Lot of different ways. I even saw some people do if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") but that seems very dirty, what if there's more than one form on the same page? Whatever method you use you also want to allow data to be submitted from more than one source, as in your application you may have multiple places where say, you can search for something, so may as well reuse the same form to do that search so you can submit it from another page.
I'm writing a php application and I caught myself being kinda inconsistent in how I'm doing it, and it got me wondering what way is normally preferred?
I'm leaning towards just checking that the submit button is pressed and doing away with the "act" way, but then apparently in IE (because IE is a piece of garbage) if you hit enter instead of clicking the button it won't work. So perhaps a hidden field is better?
In my application I have a form class, so this would be mostly automated as each form has it's own name, so it would just be "[name]submit" or something and not really a big deal to have a hidden field.
Suppose this is just a semantics issue and there's probably not a "right" way, but just curious what people normally do.
Lot of different ways. I even saw some people do if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") but that seems very dirty, what if there's more than one form on the same page? Whatever method you use you also want to allow data to be submitted from more than one source, as in your application you may have multiple places where say, you can search for something, so may as well reuse the same form to do that search so you can submit it from another page.
I'm writing a php application and I caught myself being kinda inconsistent in how I'm doing it, and it got me wondering what way is normally preferred?
I'm leaning towards just checking that the submit button is pressed and doing away with the "act" way, but then apparently in IE (because IE is a piece of garbage) if you hit enter instead of clicking the button it won't work. So perhaps a hidden field is better?
In my application I have a form class, so this would be mostly automated as each form has it's own name, so it would just be "[name]submit" or something and not really a big deal to have a hidden field.
Suppose this is just a semantics issue and there's probably not a "right" way, but just curious what people normally do.
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