Submit botton not showing up in POST

[eluser]jtingato[/eluser]
I have never seen this before and it has me perplexed.
I have taken over a previously designed site ( I always hate that) which was
created using CodeIgniter. I have not used CodeIgniter before, so I am a noob.
Does CI somehow filter the POST array?

There is a form on a PHP page with a JS script for creating a sketch of some
clothing. The form accepts several choices from combo boxes with an "order" and Save function. The action of the form is to a function "sketch/doSave", which need to determine whether Save or order was clicked. The form is as follows below:

NOTE: I have redirected the form action to a php file that just uses print_r to
print the POST array. Everything shows up in the array except the submit
buttons.

************Print_r results***********
Array
(
[base] => UT300
[baseColor] => Black
[baseFabric] => L0000
[neck] => N100
[sleeve] =>
[sleeveColor] => None Available
[sleeveFabric] => None Available
[sleeveInsertColor] => None Available
[sleeveInsertFabric] => None Available
[lowertorso] =>
[lowertorsoColor] => None Available
[lowertorsoFabric] => None Available
[lowertorsoInsertColor] => None Available
[lowertorsoInsertFabric] => None Available
)
**********************************************

Where is the [save]= "Save" ?

If I copy just the button portion of the form to another php file and run it
it shows up in the POST array.

Any ideas? Please.


****************** FORM CODE*********************************
<form action="<?=site_url('postshow.php')?>" id="sketchForm" method="post">

<fieldset>

<legend>Sketch Form</legend>

&lt;!------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&gt;

&lt;!-- Start Button Box --&gt;

<div class="buttonBox">

&lt;input name="save" type="submit" id="save" accesskey="s" value="Save"&gt; .

&lt;input name="order" type="submit" id="order" accesskey="o" value="Order"&gt; .

&lt;input name="reset" type="button" id="reset" accesskey="r" value="Reset"&gt;

</div>

&lt;!-- End Button Box --&gt;

&lt;!------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&gt;

&lt;!-- Start Details Box --&gt;

<div id="details">

<div id="baseBox">

&lt;!-- Create and fill combo boxes--&gt;

<div id="baseCombo">

<label for="base">Base</label>

<select name="base" id="base" class="required main">

<option value="none" selected>-- Select a Base --</option>

&lt;?=$baseOptions?&gt;

</select>

</div>

&lt;!-- End Base Combo --&gt;

&lt;!-- Create and fill more combo boxes --&gt; ....

[eluser]jtingato[/eluser]
Okay. I was wondering (without any attitude at all.. I promise). Did I do something wrong in this forum. It just seems that posts were being replied to all around any of mine. I really would like to know if I did something, so I don't ever do it again.
Please advise

I did finally find that the problem lies in a JS file... "jsquery.js" I will try to look through that file for info.

Any help will be extremely appreciated. I am not familiar with this file. Is it a part of CI?

[eluser]Randy Casburn[/eluser]
Hi jtingato,

Did I do something wrong in this forum.

I don't really think you did.

I will tell you I tend to bypass posts with a bunch of code or lists and things that don't use the forum's tagging tools to separate them out.

I'm not sure I could have helped, but I would have taken a look had you used code tags. Hit "Post Reply" and you'll get a friendlier input form than the 'fast reply' one.

Just a thought,

Randy

[eluser]Mike Ryan[/eluser]
Could you post the code from your controller file? (The one that contains the function the form is normally submitted to? Like Randy says, if you put it in [code ]your code[/code ] tags (without the spaces) it will be easier to read.

This is the CI way of getting something from POST:

Code:

$something = $this->input->post('something');

Of course, that won't solve the problem with the submit buttons not showing up. ;-)

[eluser]obiron2[/eluser]
Buttons don't take names and values that you can pass through to $_POST; they can only be submit or reset.

Either create a radio button set or dropdown box for the Save/Order option and only have one Submit button or if you really want two submit buttons, you will need to add some code to the onClick() event that sets a hidden value or changes the action in form tag.

I would prefer the first option because it is a) easier to program and b) does not rely on users having javascript turned on.

Obiron

[eluser]jtingato[/eluser]
Thank you for your respoces. I didnt realize they were her till now.

I did not realize that buttons did not pass their name to the post.
In my form I have:

Code:

<input name="save" type="submit" id="save" accesskey="s" value="Save" class = "required" />

Then I am trying to access it with

Code:

$order=$this->input->post('order')

I guess that won't work.

But by using print_r($_POST), shouldn't I at least get an entry for something? I was expecting order="Order", but shouldn't I at least get submit=something???

Or probably just if(isset('submit'))???