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Using Form Helpers - El Forum - 12-21-2007

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Good day all,

i have been playing around with the CI's form helper, the helper has a function called form_submit(), i usually don't use the submit button to submit my forms, instead use images or buttons to call a javascript function which then submits the related form. Now my question is, is there a feature for calling form_button()? or maybe to include images as a button to achieve my task?

Thanks

Using Form Helpers - El Forum - 12-21-2007

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hi again, or is it possible for me not to use the CI's form helper, but create my own classes. is that advisable? performance, resource usage wise, please advise

Using Form Helpers - El Forum - 12-21-2007

[eluser]tonanbarbarian[/eluser]
most of the form helpers can have arrays of data passed to them
so to create an image submit use something like the following

Code:
form_submit(

  array(

    'name'=>'submit',

    'value'=>'submitted',

    'type'=>'image',

    'src'=>'img/submitbutton.png',

    'id'=>'my_submit',

    'onclick'=>'return myformclick();'

  )

);

this will produce something similar to this

Code:
&lt;input name="submit" value="submitted" type="image" src="img/submitbutton.png" id="my_submit" onclick="return myformclick();" /&gt;

so the example shows how you can do both image submit and onclick using the form_submit helper function