Form With Multiple Submit Buttons

[John]

I am on path of a UI that is a single form with submit buttons for
various functions. In a route I envision taking action based on what
button was selected.

From Tag Helpers I can see how to assign properties to submit button:

%= submit_button 'Ok!', id => 'foo'

However it is not clear how I can key off id in my route. The param
property doesn't seem to provide this information.

I am open to any suggestions including "don't do it that way do XXXX
instead" or "this is basic html. Learn that first".

Thanks,

John

[Keita Sugama]

Hi John.

With this HTML

<input type="submit" name="button1" value="push it for foo">
<input type="submit" name="button2" value="push it for bar">

You will get URLs look like

?button1=push+it+for+foo

So you can detect which one has been pushed by checking the
existence of names in parameter.

[john]

Perfect...thanks.

[jay m]

the button value only shows up in your URL if your form method=GET which isn't recommended in any case where form submission changes your application's state (i.e. if it results in a database update) or if the submitted info is sensitive, or long

also, a better solution, whether using GET or POST, is to give both buttons the same name and different values, and check the value in the controller that handles the route

jay

[john]

Thanks.  I gave that method a try and it works well.

    %= submit_button 'Submit', name => 'cmd', value => 'Play'
    %= submit_button 'Submit', name => 'cmd', value => 'Pause'

In my controller:

    my $cmd = lc($self->param('cmd'));

John

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