I have a form like so:
<form method="post">
<div id="some-div">
<input id="some-input" type="text" name="input" placeholder="some input">
<button id="update-button" type="submit" name="submit_update_entry">Save changes</button>
<button id="delete-button" type="submit" name="submit_delete_entry">Delete entry</button>
</div>
In PHP I can use isset($_POST['submit_update_entry'])
or isset($_POST['submit_update_entry'])
.
I've already searched the internet and can only find solutions for Flask or Django. Also searched in class BaseHTTPRequestHandler
, but with no luck.
EDIT: So I finally figured out how to do it. Apparently the button name is in field_data = self.rfile.read(length)
, but when I parsed field_data
to get the fields using fields = parse.parse_qs(str(field_data,"UTF-8"))
, it was getting deleted. I had to change the line to fields = parse.parse_qs(str(field_data,"UTF-8"), keep_blank_values=True)
to see submit_update_entry
or submit_delete_entry
.
So I finally figured out how to do it. Apparently the button name is in
field_data = self.rfile.read(length)
but when I parsed field_data
to get the fields using
fields = parse.parse_qs(str(field_data,"UTF-8"))
it was getting deleted. I had to change the line to
fields = parse.parse_qs(str(field_data,"UTF-8"), keep_blank_values=True)
to see submit_update_entry
or submit_delete_entry
.