form with two actions?

[JohnLee]

Got a question concerning submission of forms. I have an online form where users can submit numbers and do calculations, let's say if I want two buttons say "Calculate with 5%" and "Calculate with 10%" on one particular form will it be possible? Both calculations will be done using two different php pages, how do i go about doing it? Thanks!

[Ren]

Yes.
But it would be simpler if had one php page, doing both calculations.

If have the 2 submit buttons

<input type="submit" name="sub" value="Calculate with 5%">

and

<input type="submit" name="sub" value="Calculate with 10%">

You can check the value of $_POST['sub'] (or $_GET['sub'] if form is using "GET" method) which will be the either of the values (Calculate with 5%, or Calculate with 10%).

[N9ne]

You can do this:

Just have the two submit buttons, one with name='sub5' and the other name='sub10'.

Then have the php page that does the processing to determine:

if (isset($_POST['sub5']))
{
out put here
}
elseif (isset($_POST['sub10']))
{
out put for 10% here
} 

This is similar to what Ren posted.

[Imminent]

Yeah, i like setting up a case statement when i got a form that does multiple submits

<input type="submit" name="action" value="action1" />
<input type="submit" name="action" value="action2" />

if (isset($_POST['action'])) {
    switch ($_POST['action'])) {
        case "action1":
            // do stuff
            break;
        
        case "action2":
            // do other stuff
            break;
    }
} 

[algis]

hi,
if you really want to make calcs by two different pages you can use the client-side JavaScript to set up the form target after clicking the respective button like:
document.yourFormName.target = 'page1.php' if the user clicks on the first button
or
document.yourFormName.target = 'page2.php' after click of the second one