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foshoeiyyy
foshoeiyyy

Reputation: 471

Submit button not submitting

<div class = 'buttons'>
 <button type="submit" class="regular" name="save">
        <img src="elephant.png" alt=""/>
        Memory
 </button>
</div>

This is the code for a submit button

however when i try validate the form using php, the button does not seem to be submitting

<?php if( isset($_POST['save']) && $_POST['save'])
{
$submit = $_POST['save'];
echo "lol";
}
else
{
echo "lola";

}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 16894

Answers (5)

Biswadeep Sarkar
Biswadeep Sarkar

Reputation: 892

Here is the code that you want:

<form name="myForm" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
<div class="buttons">
 <button type="submit" class="regular" name="save" value="Save">
        <img src="elephant.png" alt="Elephant" />
        Memory
 </button>
</div>
</form>

Upvotes: 1

Vishal
Vishal

Reputation: 2181

  • You should include your code within <form method="post" action="path/to/your/php/processing/file"> and </form> tags
  • Replace your button code with <input type="submit" class="regular" name="save" />
  • Remove isset($_POST['save']) && part from condition of if as you don't have set value for your button.

Upvotes: 0

Kalle H. V&#228;ravas
Kalle H. V&#228;ravas

Reputation: 3615

As written already your code lacks the wrapping. While submit button as a button might work without the form, then catching the _POST data surely doesnt.

Also, your solution for image-button could be better, maybe something like this:

<style type="text/css">
    input[type="submit"] {background: url('elephant.png') right no-repeat; padding: 10px; padding-left: 30px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;} /* or call this .regular */
</style>
<?
if ($_POST['save']) { // the trigger
    echo '<h1>Cooking with fire now!</h1>';
}
?>
<form method="POST" action="">
    <div class="buttons">
        <input type="submit" name="save" value="Memory" class="regular" />
    </div>
</form>
  • Note that class = "buttons" with the spaces, is incorrect syntax!

Upvotes: 0

animuson
animuson

Reputation: 54729

Your submit button doesn't have any value to send when posting the form. The <button> element does not send its element's content as its submit value. You still have to add a value attribute to the element in order for it to have a submitted value. Since you don't, it's sending an empty string, which is causing your conditional statement to fail:

if( isset($_POST['save']) && $_POST['save'])

Since $_POST['save'] is empty, that second part returns false and thus it goes to your else block.

Upvotes: 1

vansimke
vansimke

Reputation: 974

Submit buttons only work in forms. Try to wrap the whole thing in a form tag and try again.

Upvotes: 3

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