How to call a PHP function on the click of a button

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I have created a page called functioncalling.php that contains two buttons, Submit and Insert.

I want to test which function is executed when a button gets clicked. I want the output to appear on the same page. So, I created two functions, one for each button.

<form action="functioncalling.php">
    <input type="text" name="txt" />
    <input type="submit" name="insert" value="insert" onclick="insert()" />
    <input type="submit" name="select" value="select" onclick="select()" />
</form>

<?php
    function select(){
        echo "The select function is called.";
    }
    function insert(){
        echo "The insert function is called.";
    }
?>

The problem here is that I don't get any output after any of the buttons are clicked.

Where exactly am I going wrong?

button forms html php
13 Answers

Calling a PHP function using the HTML button: Create an HTML form document which contains the HTML button. When the button is clicked the method POST is called. The POST method describes how to send data to the server. After clicking the button, the array_key_exists() function called.

<?php
    if(array_key_exists('button1', $_POST)) { 
        button1(); 
    } 
    else if(array_key_exists('button2', $_POST)) { 
        button2(); 
    } 
    function button1() { 
        echo "This is Button1 that is selected"; 
    } 
    function button2() { 
        echo "This is Button2 that is selected"; 
    } 
?> 

<form method="post"> 
    <input type="submit" name="button1" class="button" value="Button1" /> 
    <input type="submit" name="button2" class="button" value="Button2" /> 
</form>

source: geeksforgeeks.org

user_60337410

You can simply do this. In php, you can determine button click by use of

if(isset($_Post['button_tag_name']){
echo "Button Clicked";
}

Therefore you should modify you code as follows:


<?php

if(isset($_Post['select']){
 echo "select button clicked and select method should be executed";
}
if(isset($_Post['insert']){
 echo "insert button clicked and insert method should be executed";
}
           
        ?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
    <body>
        <form action="functioncalling.php">
            <input type="text" name="txt" />
            <input type="submit" name="insert" value="insert" onclick="insert()" />
            <input type="submit" name="select" value="select" onclick="select()" />
        </form>

<script>
//This will be processed on the client side
function insert(){
  window.alert("You click insert button");
}

function select(){
  window.alert("You click insert button");
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
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