submit button in form

I have a form and I want the submit button to execut action depend on the option selected.

I have a dropdown menu with:
action 1
action 2
action 3

and a submit button.
If action 1 is selected, when submit, do action1.php, if action 2 is selected, when submit, do action2.php, and so on....

ty

How about when they click any of the options,
javascript sends to one PHP script ... that script
determines what the value is and redirects the user.
That redirection is invisible to the user.

If that's OK, you want to use javascripting:

$('select').change(function() {
$('form').submit();
});

And then in the PHP script, redirect ...

<?php
// default page
$page="index.php";
if($_POST['action']=="1"){
$page="action1.php";
}
if($_POST['action']=="2"){
$page="action2.php";
}
if($_POST['action']=="3"){
$page="action3.php";
}
header("location: $page");
?>

ok, but where I insert this?

The PHP script can be called "action.php".
It gets saved all by itself.

In your main page, you'll put the
javascript function near the top,
and your form wherever the select
box is.

Something like this (I found this example using Google):

<script type="text/javascript">
function FormSubmit() {
document.myform.action = 'action.php';
document.myform.submit();
return;
}
</script>

<form method="post" name="myform">

<select name="action" onChange="FormSubmit(this)">
<option value="1">1st choice</option>
<option value="2">2nd choice</option>
</select>
</form>

it works but... I have a problem.

this is a search form.... using action GET
and when I submit... just go to page1, page2 or page3 without showing the search results.

I need this to use 3 types of page results (action1 = page1, actio2 = page2, action3=page3)

Show me your script that you call "action.php".
The script that does the actual search.

<?php
// default page
$page="index.php";
if($_POST['action']=="1"){
$page="page1.php";
}
if($_POST['action']=="2"){
$page="page2.php";
}
if($_POST['action']=="3"){
$page="page3.php";
}
header("location: $page");
?>

and the search code is in page1, page2, and page3...
but I need to GET the words from the form selected on the page from where was use submit button

ooooh I see ...


<form method="post" name="myform">
Search For: <input type="text" name="target"> &nbsp;
<select name="action" onChange="FormSubmit(this)">
<option value="1">1st choice</option>
<option value="2">2nd choice</option>
</select>
</form>


<?php
// default page
$page="index.php";

if($_POST['target']){
$target=$_POST['target'];

if($_POST['action']=="1"){
$page="page1.php?t=$target";
}
if($_POST['action']=="2"){
$page="page2.php?t=$target";
}
if($_POST['action']=="3"){
$page="page3.php?t=$target";
}

}// end if target
header("location: $page");
?>


On the page1, page2, page3

if($_GET['t']){
$target=$_GET['t'];
}

and if I have 2 or more "target" ?
search for target1 AND target2 AND target3 .....


and now...
Is listing all data from db... not the target word

I guess you add more text lines ...
name="target1"
name="target2"

And add them to the URL variable in the 2nd script.

Your URL will get sort of long if you have too many, but it shouldn't hurt anything.
You could also save the search targets in cookies and not even have them
show in the URL. I guess it depends on what you're searching and what is
supposed to happen if the search doesn't find anything. A lot of things ...
but I don't have enough information to answer.

if 0 results... echo 0 results found :))
well... isn't a simple way?


or... how I can do this...
if action1 is selected outputsearch = " .... way1" and if action2 is selected outputsearch = " ....way2"

Let me ask this ...
What are you searching? A database?
and what is the purpose of the script?

I guess I don't even understand what your search thing is supposed to do.
Where is the scripting that actually does the search?

I think this may be what your after:
<script type="text/javascript">
function checkAct() {
var f = document.getElementById('YOUR_FORM_ID');
var s = document.getElementById('SELECT_ID');
if( s.selectedIndex == 1 ) {
f.setAttribute("method","POST");
f.setAttribute("action",s.options[1].value) ;
f.submit();
}
if( s.selectedIndex == 2 ) {
f.setAttribute("method","POST");
f.setAttribute("action",s.options[2].value) ;
f.submit(); }
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="YOUR_FORM_ID" >
<select id="SELECT_ID" onchange="checkAct()">
<option value="">choose your action</option>
<option value="action1.php">action-ator1</option>
<option value="action2.php">action-ator2</option>
</select>
</form>

You can omit the f.submit() if you dont wont the form to submit upopn selection

ty ty ty ty...
but please explain and the last part... with f.submit().
ty again

Please tell us what you're searching.
A database?
HTML pages?
??

The answer depends on knowing what you're goal is.

searching a db

So you must have a script that does the db search?
Can you post that?

My point it is ... the main power of a search is in the query itself.
You are going to different PHP scripts depending on the form selection.
I'm still wondering why you're doing that. If I saw the script you're
using to do the db search, maybe it would be more clear to me?

Any script you have on your website can query the same database.


.

I don't understand what are you talking about.
I asked what is with the f.submit because cercos said in the post "You can omit the f.submit() if you dont wont the form to submit upopn selection" and I didn't understand what he means.

The script works fine. I was wondering what`s with the "f.submit". That`s all.

ty

ok ...
I just thought the submitted form was used for a search script.
nevermind my rambling.

it is

@cercos:

can you help me with radio buttons options and not dropdown? thanks

f = document.getElementById('YOUR_FORM_ID');

i think that line is already present in cercos' code

i can't make it work on radio buttons...

all your radio buttons want to be named Action


name="Action"