Handling multiple automatically generated buttons?

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Handling multiple automatically generated buttons? - Harvey - 10-04-2013

Sup folks?

I've got a script that generates lots of buttons in a loop. We currently look like this.

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The buttons are generated using the following code (everything's being read from a database).

Simplified version:

PHP Code:
<?php while($rows = mysql_fetch_array($query)):
                assign variables and output other shit here
        echo "<td>" . "<center><input type='submit' value='Edit' name='edit_post_" . $post_id . "'></center>" . "</td>";
        endwhile;
?>

I left some of the formatting shit out but you get the point. Each button generated is called (for example) 'edit_post_7' or 'edit_post_8'.

The problem is, I want to make ALL these buttons do a very similar thing (e.g. run a function). But I don't want to have to do this for each of them.

PHP Code:
if(isset($_POST['edit_post_7'])){
   do my shit
}
if(isset($_POST['edit_post_8'])){
   do essentially the same shit
} 

I can't do this because there could be thousands of buttons.

What's the best way to handle these events?

RE: Handling multiple automatically generated buttons? - PolarDesigns - 10-04-2013

Code:
<?php

while ( $rows = mysql_fetch_array ( $query ) )
{
    echo "<td><center><a href='index.php?edit&id={$post_id}' title='Edit post'>Edit</a></center></td>"
}

?>

Then to process it:

Code:
<?php

if ( isset ( $_REQUEST['edit'] ) )
{
   if ( isset ( $_REQUEST['id'] ) && is_numeric ( $_REQUEST['id'] ) )
   {
       // do shit here with $_REQUEST['id'] instead of $_POST['edit_post_#']
   }
}

?>

This is a very basic and insecure way of doing it, but it should get your job done... Hope this is what you are looking for..

RE: Handling multiple automatically generated buttons? - Harvey - 10-04-2013

Brilliant. Thank you!

RE: Handling multiple automatically generated buttons? - Fhoto - 10-04-2013

I was about to answer this for you, anyway Polar answered.