Posted by Leif Gregory on 09/30/89 11:11

Hello j,

Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 10:13:50 AM, you wrote:
j> I'm trying to get the name of a form. I tried the following code,
j> but I guess the data in $_POST only contains data on the form
j> elements that go inside the form tags, but not info from the form
j> tag itself. Any suggestions on how to get the form name?

j> echo "<form name=\"myForm\" action=\"test.php\" method=\"POST\" value=\"AAA\">"$

IIRC, form name is not sent by any browser, so it won't show up in
POST / GET / COOKIES or anywhere else. The easiest way is to set a
hidden field which contains that information..

i.e.

<input type="hidden" name="formName" value="myForm" />


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Leif (TB lists moderator and fellow end user).

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