Rob Page <rob.page@digicool.com> wrote,

"'Timothy Wilson'" <wilson@visi.com>:

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I'm trying to implement a search feature on my site. Basically, I've created a form for searching with two radio buttons, one for searching the Internet and the other for searching my site with ZCatalog. Do I need to use any DTML trickery here or can I easily get the form to direct the action to different places based on which radio button is selected? I really hope this isn't some really obvious HTML question, but I hunted around and I can't find a good example or any easy answers. Thanks.

You can either send the form to the same ACTION and then break that action up with something like:L

<dtml-if radio_button1> ..

or you can use some javascript. Basically, change the submit button from type=submit to type=button and make it run a javascript function. You can then, at runtime modify the ACTION of the form and then send it to the server.

If a radiobutton is not a hard-and-fast requirement, you can also make the form's ACTION point to your main object, and then have multiple SUBMIT buttons -- use the ":method" decoration on their NAME attributes to select a method to be called: <FORM ACTION=frobber METHOD="post"> .... <INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="frob_once:method" VALUE="Once"= <INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="frob_twice:method" VALUE="Twice"= </FORM> -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com