[baparao]

Hello friends.

I am looking for a good way in perl scripts to process a form that has multiple submit buttons in the form of imge type inputs
for example,
(<input name="submit1" type="image" src="foo.jpg">
(<input name="submit2" type="image" src="bar.jpg">

The w3c documentation at
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interac...tml#edef-INPUT

says that the clicked image x and y coordinates are transmitted via CGI along with the image name, implying that the script would identify which of the multiple submit buttons was clicked by checking the x-y coordinates.

Is there an easier way to do this? I would appreciate any information/knowledge that you can share.

thanks,
Bapa

[Chas]

Using CGI.pm your images buttons are going to be coming though as either submit1.x and submit1.y OR submit2.x and submit2.y where the values of those params will give you the x,y values of the mouse press on that button. All you need to do is check your CGI object for the existance of a param with a .x or .y to see what button was pressed:

Code:

use CGI;
my $q = CGI->new;

my ($pressed) = grep { /^.*\.x$/; s/\.x$//; } $in->param;

# Do something with $pressed

I tested for foo.x then stripped off the .x and set that value in $pressed.

~Charlie