[Zope-DB] Re: Having trouble passing arguments through a submit button

[Sean Fulmer]

Laura McCord wrote:
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> From: Laura McCord
> Sent: Thu 4/29/2004 7:01 PM
> To: zope-db at zope.org
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> Hi,
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>  I am not sure if this is possible but  if I have a form like the form at the bottom of the page that displays user information I want to pass the user id to a edit form that will update the user information. So if I hit the Edit button I want it to take me to an edit form while passing the userid variable. How would I write this action? This is what I have in on my submit button for the "edit" button:
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> <tr><td>
> <form action="user_EditForm">
> <input type=SUBMIT name="edit" value="Edit">
> </form>
> </td
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> Normally to create the link to the edit form I have this: <a tal:attributes="href python: 'user_EditForm?userid=' + str(userid)">[edit]</a>  However, I don't know how to incorporate this with a submit button.
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Add method="GET" to your form tag - that will tell the form to send its 
fields as URL parameters instead of posting them in the HTTP headers.