2 button form...how to choose which is pressed.

[Moshambi]

Ok so I have two buttons in a form. One is to modify text and one is to delete the photo. My problem is that I only want one to be read. Here is the code I tried:

if(isset($_POST['edit']))
	{
		$sql = "UPDATE pictures SET pictext = '".$_POST['pictext']."' WHERE id = '".$_POST['id']."'";
		if (!mysql_query($sql))
		  {
			die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
		  }
		  else
		  {
			echo "1 record updated";
		  }	
	}
	else if(isset($_POST['delete']));
	{
		$sql = "DELETE FROM pictures WHERE id = '".$_POST['id']."'";
		if (!mysql_query($sql))
		  {
			die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
		  }
		  else
		  {
			echo "1 record deleted";
		  }
	}

Now this doesn't work because both buttons are being posted obviously. Any quick ways to fix this? All help is appreciated.

[schorhr]

One quick fix: give the buttons a different
name=foo / name=foo2 and check with isset for example

or...

use two forms (if possible).


here the example with name=

<form action="thispageorsomeother.php" method="post">
<input type="submit" name="buttonone" value="boo" />

<input type="submit" name="buttontwo" value="foo" />
<form/>

Now you can simply check
$_POST["buttonone"] and $_POST["buttontwo"]

[Moshambi]

I'm not sure if you looked at my code or not. That is exactly what I'm doing, but it is not working. And I don't want to do two forms..unless I ABSOLUTELY have to. Thank you for the reply.

[schorhr]

Strange, works fine here.
Still, could you post the HTML-Part (at least the form)?